Nearly 90% of countries adopt biodiversity targets, but most remain off track
Thousands of delegates are now gathering in Yerevan to discuss the future of life on Earth as we know it at the U.N.’s COP17 biodiversity summit. Countries have made considerable progress in developing national conservation plans under the biodiversity framework agreed to at COP15 in Montreal in 2022, but most remain well off pace to […]
Nearly 90% of the 196 countries represented at the U.N.'s COP17 biodiversity summit have adopted national conservation targets, but most are off track to meet the overall goals set for 2030, according to a new assessment. The Convention on Biological Diversity's framework, agreed upon in 2022, includes 23 targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by the end of the decade.
These targets encompass protecting 30% of land and sea, restoring degraded ecosystems, reducing pollution and invasive species, slowing species extinctions, reforming destructive subsidies, and mobilizing $200 billion annually for biodiversity conservation. While the majority of countries have aligned their national policies with this framework, only less than half of the assessed targets are on track to be achieved. The United States is not a party to the treaty.
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