Deal Still Eludes Nations on Final Day of UN Nature Talks
Delegates have adopted 14 decisions and secured more than $1.8 billion in pledges, but disputes over who pays for conservation remain unresolved.
- On the final day of the COP17 summit in Yerevan, Armenia, nations struggled Friday to reach a deal as negotiations remained deadlocked over conservation finance and a global progress review.
- Funding disagreements between The European Union and China stalled talks over the Cali Fund, which aimed to raise one billion dollars annually but has only attracted around $10,000.
- A crucial global review of progress toward 2030 targets—including protecting 30 percent of land and oceans—remains unresolved, with UN assessments warning current efforts are insufficient to meet these goals.
- UN biodiversity chief Astrid Schomaker urged participants to "be bold and innovative to find common ground," while Catherine Weller from Fauna & Flora warned biodiversity is "pummelled from all angles."
- Representatives are expected to decide today whether Panama or Ecuador will host the next biodiversity summit in 2028, as nations push to finalize remaining agreements before Friday's close.
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COP17 – the summit to protect biodiversity – is over. But with limited progress, critics say. “Time is running out to achieve the goals that the world’s governments have set to reverse the nature crisis,” says Ulrik Westman, representative of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, in a comment.
Svenska Dagbladet
COP17 – the summit to protect biodiversity – is over. But with limited progress, critics say. “Time is running out to achieve the goals that the world’s governments have set to reverse the nature crisis,” says Ulrik Westman, representative of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, in a comment.
After two weeks of discussions at the International Biodiversity Summit in Yerevan, Armenia, the Minister of Ecological Transition Monique Barbut estimated on Saturday 31 October that COP17's assessment was "not up to the stakes".
The Summit on the protection of biodiversity has made it possible to relaunch the efforts of the states to achieve their goals by 2030. An insufficient assessment in the eyes of the French minister of ecological transition, Monique Barbut.
After two weeks of discussions in Yerevan, the hard points of the Biodiversity Summit have moved little, says the Minister of Ecological Transition.
ledauphine.com
After two weeks of discussions at the international biodiversity summit in Yerevan and several adopted texts, the Minister of Ecological Transition believes that the results are "not up to date".
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