Earth Hour 2021 a critical moment to reverse nature loss, says WWF International

KUNMING, THE "PARIS" FOR NATURE?

Earth Hour comes ahead of key events when world leaders will take critical decisions on nature, climate change and sustainable development, setting the course of our future, the WWF said.

In May, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be held in the city of Kunming, in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.

"On climate, we have a clear goal... Our society needs to be carbon neutral and this is necessary to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, this is the Paris Agreement. We don't have the same for nature," Lambertini said.

"Kunming could be the Paris-style agreement for nature."

The Paris Agreement reached in 2015 aims to tackle climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and sets a global target of keeping the rise in the average temperature no higher than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.