Dear John

Human activity has caused a sixth mass extinction. To prevent further biodiversity loss, we must ensure that the new global biodiversity agreement tackles the impact of human population growth. Send an urgent message to your country's environment minister:

The new agreement, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, will replace the failed 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. To prevent another failure, the root causes of biodiversity loss must be addressed. The post-2020 Framework will be further negotiated in Geneva from 13-29 March, and then adopted at the COP15 UN biodiversity summit in China later this year.

In the run-up to the March meetings, please call on your country’s environment minister to ensure that positive, choice-based population solutions are included in the new global agreement.

Together, we can ensure that the fundamental contribution of human population growth to biodiversity loss is no longer ignored - for the benefit of people and planet.

Thanks for taking action,

Andrew Howard
Senior Campaigner
Population Matters

PS: If you've taken our previous biodiversity action, you can and should take this one too. Your country’s environment minister may have changed so you’ll now be targeting the minister who is currently in charge of your country’s biodiversity policy.