Cop17 at a glance: everything you need to know about the UN’s nature summit
The UN biodiversity summit, Cop17, is convening in Yerevan, Armenia, to assess global progress on the 23 nature conservation targets established at Cop15. The summit focuses on protecting 30% of land and sea and reforming environmentally damaging subsidies.
Why it matters
This summit is critical for determining if international agreements can effectively mitigate the ongoing global biodiversity crisis.
A delegate at Cop15 in Montreal, which set ambitious targets such as protecting 30% of land and sea for nature and reforming $500bn of damaging subsidies./Getty A delegate at Cop15 in Montreal, which set ambitious targets such as protecting 30% of land and sea for nature and reforming $500bn of damaging subsidies./Getty The age of extinction Cop17 biodiversity summit Explainer 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
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