The Paris Agreement was forged eight years ago, and many countries are only just starting to implement plans to achieve the goals under the pact to tackle climate change.
But now there is a new global agreement to deal with another planetary crisis - biodiversity loss. And it is back to the drawing board for countries who have been tasked by the United Nations to formulate action plans that will stop wildlife species from disappearing.
The new framework sets out four overarching goals for the world to achieve by 2050, such as increasing the area of natural ecosystems, and 23 targets to be achieved in the shorter-term. It is likely that the global biodiversity framework would subject Singapore’s national biodiversity management plans to more international scrutiny by international groups.One, the country’s nature areas are a stronghold for certain species of wildlife that are highly threatened elsewhere. An example is the critically endangered straw-headed bulbul, a songbird poached to extinction in other countries.
Environmental studies in Singapore have tended to focus either on biodiversity - such as the national effort to map out wildlife corridors throughout the country - or on mitigating climate impact. For nature conservation efforts to truly take off in Singapore, society needs to learn how to better coexist with wildlife. Otherwise, nature conservation could lead to backlash, and put conservationists and biodiversity managers in a bind.The return of these aquatic mammals to the country’s urban waterways has been touted a conservation success. Yet, there are now calls for their numbers to be controlled, following cases of otters eating expensive koi fish and “attacking” humans.
The Republic is already making headway in this area, with carbon credit trading platform Climate Impact X and Temasek-backed investment firm GenZero channelling funds into nature-based carbon projects.
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