Cop17 at a glance: everything you need to know about the UN’s nature summit
This month’s biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, aims to push governments to meet the 23 targets agreed at Cop15 in 2022
TL;DR
- Cop17, the 17th meeting of signatories to the UN convention on biological diversity, will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, from October 19-30.
- The summit will focus on assessing progress towards the 23 targets agreed upon in 2022, such as protecting 30% of land and sea for nature and restoring degraded ecosystems.
- Governments have historically failed to meet UN biodiversity targets since the convention's inception in 1992.
- Key challenges include insufficient funding from governments and private entities, and past summits ending without clear agreements.
- While progress is being made on land protection targets, other areas like reforming environmentally damaging subsidies have seen little action.