Nathalie Boltt Instagram – The most important decisions in our history are being made right now. @davidebybc Repost from @kenwukenwu • Major progress!! Agreement to at least double land protection across Earth from 15% now to 30% by 2030 (and Canada has a 25% by 2025 interim goal…currently only 12% of Canada is protected), and to quadruple coastal marine protection from under 8% now to 30% by 2030. Plus $30 billion/yr in financing by 2030 from wealthy nations to help developing countries (where the vast majority of biodiversity is in the tropics and subtropics) to protect ecosystems too. Still short on what is needed – scientists say 50% by 2030 of Earth should be in protected or defacto protected areas by 2030 to best avert the climate crisis – but a huge leap beyond our previous 17% protection commitment. This upwards pull will also exert major pressure within Canada – if we use this leverage as a conservation movement to expand protection across the country, in particular by pressuring the provinces (who except for Quebec and BC have not committed to the targets nor the funding) to get on board the national and international protected areas momentum. Besides overall targets, ecosystem-based targets are vital (ie. All ecosystems need targets otherwise governments will tend to skirt around saving the areas most coveted by industry, including productive old-growth forests, grasslands, southern deciduous and mixed forests, etc. and mainly save tundra, taiga, bogs, alpine and subalpine areas) as well as provincial funding in particular for private land acquisition and supporting First Nations Indigenous Protected Areas initiatives.