Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with reporters to make an announcement about protecting Canadian freshwater in Winnipeg, Man., on Wednesday.

Back in December, negotiators in Montreal adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, aimed at halting the destruction of nature and beginning to repair the damage.

The framework’s signature pledge is the agreement to ensure 30 per cent of the world’s land, water, coast and marine areas fall under some form of conservation by 2030. Another target in the agreement stipulates that at least 30 per cent of degraded ecosystems need to be in the process of being restored by the end of the decade.

The agreement calls on countries to mobilize significant financial resources to fund nature promises. That includes a commitment to raise US$200 billion per year from all public, private, and philanthropic sources, as well as US$30 billion in annual aid to flow from richer countries to developing ones by 2030.

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