World behind 2030 nature goals as COP16 talks begin

• The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement, reached in 2022, has been met with a lack of progress.

• Nearly 200 nations are meeting at COP16 in Colombia to prove their support for these goals.

• The focus is on developing new initiatives to generate revenues for nature.

• The rate of nature destruction continues, with governments missing deadlines on biodiversity action plans and funding billions of dollars away from meeting a 2025 goal.

• The summit, marking the 16th meeting of nations that signed the original 1992 Convention on Biodiversity, is set to be the largest biodiversity summit to date.

• Most countries have yet to submit national conservation plans, known as National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).

• As of October 18, 31 out of 195 countries had filed a plan with the U.N. biodiversity secretaryariat.

• The “30 by 30” goal of preserving 30% of the land and sea by 2030 is likely to be questioned due to the lack of plans.