Two years after reaching a historic biodiversity agreement, countries will gather this coming week to determine whether they are making progress on efforts to save Earth’s plant and animal life.
Two years after reaching a historic biodiversity agreement, countries will gather this coming week to determine whether they are making progress on efforts to save Earth’s plant and animal life.
The two-week meeting in Cali, Colombia, will also focus on efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to protect nature by 2030—with the payment of $20 billion for developing countries due next year. The United States, which is not party to the biodiversity convention, is not required to submit any plans. But the Biden administration has committed to protecting a third of American land and waters by 2030.
“This is really, really getting close,” Hooper said. “There are some countries who can easily afford to update . There’s no reason why they didn’t do it…and there are countries that didn’t get the support they needed.” “These are complex processes that are meant to be a whole of government,” she said of the plans that require coordination and buy-in from ministries, business leaders and community stakeholders, as well as raising money.Achieving the targets is especially critical to migratory species, more than 40 percent of which a UN report found are declining.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported in September that development finance for biodiversity more than doubled from 2015 to 2022.
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