EU and world leaders brought together to tackle biodiversity loss at UN Summit

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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has endorsed the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature, which aims to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Political leaders representing 64 countries have committed to this initiative ahead of the United Nations (UN) Biodiversity Summit in New York. The pledge includes ten urgent actions to be taken over the next decade, such as implementing green coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery strategies, aligning domestic climate policies with the Paris Agreement, and ending environmental crimes. During the summit, president von der Leyen took the opportunity to highlight the EU Biodiversity Strategy adopted by the European Commission earlier in 2020, which includes long-term goals to restore and protect biodiversity.