Posted on December, 08 2023

“We’ve seen some important progress since the adoption last December of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework but the uncomfortable truth is that the overall pace and scale of action remains too low to match the challenge ahead.

“At the national level, many countries have started the process of revising their national biodiversity strategies ahead of the next round of UN biodiversity talks in 2024. However, the limited number of revised action plans that have been announced are not sufficiently transformative to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

“The creation of the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund was a critical milestone - what’s needed now is a drastic increase in capital mobilization to promote the tangible implementation of this historic agreement. With nature today’s theme at the UN climate talks, the simple common agenda we need from our leaders is to treat the climate and nature crisis as the one indivisible global emergency - recognising that prioritizing funding to protect and restore biodiversity is critical to tackling the climate crisis. We urgently need to see finance reaching the communities driving change on the ground - for every moment matters in the future of globally important ecosystems like the Amazon and the Congo rainforest, that humanity cannot afford to lose.”