According to a count released by the UN on Wednesday, less than 15% of nations have submitted proposals to limit the destruction of environment ahead of a global biodiversity meeting in Colombia.
In order to “halt and reverse” the loss of nature by 2030, the 196 nations that make up the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) developed a framework in 2022 with 23 aims.
Based on assessments, roughly 25% of animal and plant species are threatened, and about a million are in danger of going extinct—many of them within a few decades.
Under the so-called Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted in Canada two years ago, countries were requested to present “national biodiversity strategies and action plans” by the COP16 meeting opening in the Colombian city of Cali on Monday.
But CBD executive secretary Astrid Schomaker said Wednesday only 29 out of 196 CBD signatory countries had submitted complete plans to date.Ninety-one have submitted less-encompassing “national targets.”
“We know that many more submissions are on their way,” Schomaker told a media briefing.
Among the framework’s twenty-three aims are stopping the extinction of recognised threatened species due to human activity and dedicating at least thirty percent of all land and water areas to conservation by the year 2030.
The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16), which is being held in the CBD until November 1, is expected to draw thousands of delegates, including seven heads of state and over 140 government ministers.
It is up to the forum to decide on funding and oversight procedures to make sure the goals can be reached.
