COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?

Share Some 58% of countries have met a UN call to submit new pledges on addressing nature loss – two years after the original deadline – according to Carbon Brief analysis.

Countries were asked to submit new pledges, known as national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), by the start of the COP16 biodiversity summit in October 2024.

After only 15% of nations met the original deadline, countries agreed at the summit to a new text that “urges” countries to release their NBSAPs “as soon as possible”.

Carbon Brief analysis shows that 113 countries have now come forward with new NBSAPs – up from 55 nations a year ago .

Countries will gather in Yerevan, Armenia, next week for COP17 .

COP17 marks the halfway point of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a landmark agreement made in 2022 to reverse nature decline by 2030.