Nations Commit to Get Nature Goals Back on Track at UN Biodiversity Summit
Nearly 200 nations approved a plan to speed up biodiversity action, as countries remained off track to meet 2030 conservation targets.
- Early on Saturday morning, nearly 200 nations approved crucial agreements at the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, concluding two weeks of tense, overtime negotiations.
- Nations struggled to meet the Global Biodiversity Framework's 2022 goal of protecting 30% of land and seas by 2030, with the UN warning earlier this week that current efforts remain insufficient.
- Delegates saw more than $1 billion pledged at the summit to address a $700 billion annual funding gap, with significant support from philanthropists including Leonardo DiCaprio's Re:wild organization.
- "Perfect," said COP17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan to applause as he finalized the documents, though specific details were not immediately released to the public.
- Catherine Weller from Fauna & Flora noted nations must urgently correct course to protect nature, as species are becoming extinct at 100 times the natural rate due to human activities.
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The adoption followed weeks of intensive deliberations among Parties on a broad range of issues, including benefit-sharing, biodiversity financing, harmful subsidies, Indigenous Peoples’ rights and marine conservation.
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"Over these two weeks, we have demonstrated that differences can be bridged, commitments can become decisions and cooperation can deliver," said Matevosyan. While countries agreed to intensify efforts to halt biodiversity loss and protect nature, contentious factors including the thorny issue of who pays for initiating steps to protect nature were addressed through compromises.
COP 17, the United Nations conference on biodiversity, ended on Saturday (31) in Armenia, with some advances and postponing contentious topics for the next meeting, in Ecuador, in 2028. There was no progress in financial resources for the loss of global nature. There are, however, technical and other results in the rights of traditional communities, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants. Exclusive material for subscribers. To have full access,…
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Countries commit to get nature goals back on track
Nearly 200 nations on Friday struck hard-fought agreements at a UN biodiversity summit, but the outcome was accompanied by disappointment over missed opportunities to address humanity’s destructive toll on nature.Delegates cheered as crucial texts were approved in overtime, but the celebrations were
On the night of Friday to Saturday, the world agreed on key texts to protect nature at the COP17 on biodiversity in Armenia, following two weeks of intense negotiations which also highlighted persistent differences on some thorny issues.
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