Biodiversity-COP17: the world has a plan to save nature. Does it work?

At the halfway point of 2030, less than half of national biodiversity targets are on track and ambition remains below the goal of conserving 30% of land and sea, while gaps in financing, capacity and data persist. COP17, which is being held from Monday in Yerevan, must make the first global review of the Kunming-Montreal framework and find the 200,000 million per year required by the agreement. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an end to the “war on nature”. This Monday, governments meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, face this question: are they doing enough to win peace and return the global biodiversity goals to the right track?

COP17, the UN Conference on Biodiversity, comes at a critical point, just halfway through the global effort to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The meeting, which runs from 19 to 30 October, will take stock of progress, identify where countries are falling behind and, most importantly, consider how to accelerate decision-making over the next four years.

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