Biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan as 30x30 targets lag
The COP17 biodiversity conference opened in Yerevan, Armenia, with governments still far from meeting the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework's goal of protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030. European Commission official Teresa Ribera said healthy ecosystems are essential for climate resilience, water and food security, and called for the framework's ambitions to be delivered. Greenpeace's An Lambrechts and Conservation International's Patricia Zurita also urged concrete action, more finance, and policy coherence to address biodiversity loss.
The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is being held in Yerevan, Armenia, from 19 to 30 October. It is expected to shape momentum ahead of the COP31 climate talks in Türkiye. The meeting marks the first global stocktake of collective progress under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, whose 30x30 goal seeks protection for nearly a third of the planet by 2030.
Participants include the European Commission, Greenpeace, Conservation International and IUCN. The Commission plans to launch Friends of Credits for Nature and Biodiversity. Speakers highlighted uneven, slow implementation, a major biodiversity funding gap, and the need for coordinated delivery, policy coherence and measurable results.
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