Dhaka, Jan. 30 -- In December 2022, a United Nations (UN) biodiversity meeting, formally known as the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was hosted by Canada in Montreal. In this recent-most assembly (COP15), 188 governments approved their plans called 'Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework' (GBF). It has four Goals and 23 Targets to be achieved by 2030 to save the world's biodiversity, which is disappearing tens to hundreds of times faster than the last 10 million years. The major elements of the GBF include protecting 30 per cent of the world's lands and waters, cutting back harmful government subsidies by US$500 billion annually, and reducing global food waste by 50 per cent.

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