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Carbon Brief tracker follows draft texts ahead of COP17 biodiversity talks

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Carbon Brief has released an interactive tool for tracking negotiating documents at the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, scheduled for 19-30 October. The tracker covers draft decisions under the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena and Nagoya protocols. The summit falls at the midpoint between the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and its target deadline, with countries currently off track on 22 of its 23 targets.

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Carbon Brief’s tracker follows draft decisions for the Yerevan summit, which runs from 19 to 30 October. It covers texts under the CBD and its Cartagena and Nagoya protocols, plus drafts from recent subsidiary body meetings that will feed into negotiations. The CBD has 196 parties; the biosafety and benefit-sharing protocols have 173 and 141 parties respectively.

The meeting occurs midway between adoption of the Kunming-Montreal framework and its target deadline. Progress is lagging on 22 of 23 targets. Talks will focus on a global review and finance, including resource mobilisation and the financial mechanism. Disagreement over that mechanism suspended COP16 in Cali in

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