Cop15: UK accused of hypocrisy over environment protection targets

The UK’s environment targets are a missed opportunity to protect Britain’s rainforests, cold water coral reefs, chalk streams and peat bogs, environmentalists have said, amid accusations of hypocrisy over the government’s position atOn Friday, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, announced the government’s legally binding targets at the UN summit in Montreal, where the world is negotiating this decade’s agreement to protect biodiversity on Earth, with talks expected to conclude...

“The UK is home to globally rare habitats that are under no designation at all. You can find fragments of Celtic temperate rainforest under no protection at all. Another example would be lowland-raised peat bogs, which are globally rare. Chalk streams and cold water coral reefs, too,” said Craig Bennett, CEO of the“It’s astonishing to see the UK government voice so much support for 30x30 at Cop15 when there’s not a 30% target in our own environmental goals for protected areas.

A government insider said there should be an urgent review of the environment targets after Cop15 to make sure they are compliant with the outcome of the nature summit.

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