Cop17 Biodiversity Summit to Confront Funding Gap for Wildlife Conservation
Nearly 200 countries will review slow progress and financing gaps as delegates seek faster delivery on the 2030 biodiversity targets.
- On Monday, nearly 200 countries convened in Yerevan, Armenia, for the United Nations Biodiversity Cop17 to assess progress toward 2030 nature targets. Countries are off-track on 22 of 23 goals established in the 2022 Kunming-Montreal pact.
- Governments spend $2.6 trillion annually on environmentally harmful subsidies, vastly outpacing conservation investment. Astrid Schomaker, who heads the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said progress is "way too slowly" despite targets remaining reachable.
- Monitored global populations fell 73 percent between 1970 and 2022, according to the WWF Living Planet Report. Andrew Terry, chief conservation officer at the Zoological Society of London, said, "Monitored global populations continue to decline on average, with no evidence yet of that global recovery."
- Research by the NGO Earth Insight found oil and gas zones overlap more than 61 million hectares of protected tropical ecosystems. Meanwhile, the UN's Cali Fund has collected only $6,000 toward its $1 billion annual goal.
- Juliette Landry, a biodiversity researcher at the Paris-based think tank IDDRI, emphasized the need for accountability. "So are you going to be following up on that nationally? What are you going to do to accelerate those actions?" she asked.
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