In 2022, the earth reached its most ambitious agreement to stop the destruction of character by the end of the decade.
Two years later, nations are already in the process of achieving their goals.
As nearly 200 nations meet on Monday ( Oct 21 ) for a two-week UN biodiversity summit, COP16, in Cali, Colombia, they will be under pressure to prove their support for the goals laid out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement.  ,
How to pay for protection is a major issue for nations and businesses, with the COP16 talks aimed at developing new initiatives that may bring in money for character.
” We have a problem around”, said Gavin Edwards, chairman of the volunteer Nature Good.  ,  ,
“COP16 is an opportunity to re-energize, remind everyone of their commitments from two years ago, and begin correcting if we’re going to get somewhere near the 2030 goals being met,” Edwards said.
Governments are still missing deadlines on their diversity action plans, and money for restoration is still billions of dollars away from meeting a 2025 goal, despite the price of natural destruction caused by logging and overfishing.
With roughly 23, 000 members registered to take part and a huge museum area open to the public, the mountain in Colombia, which marks the 16th meeting of countries that signed the original 1992 Agreement on Biodiversity, is expected to be the largest wildlife mountain to date.
Whether the contribution and pressure will encourage bolder conservation initiatives remains to be seen.
The fact that most nations have n’t submitted their national conservation plans, officially known as National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans ( NBSAPs ), despite having agreed to do so by the COP16 start, is the clearest indicator of progress.  ,
As of Friday, 31 out of 195 states had filed a strategy to the UN biodiversity committee.
Richer countries have been quicker to report with some European countries, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea and Canada having filed their ideas.  ,
The United States is present at the discussions, but it has not ratified the Protocol on Biodiversity, so it is not required to put together a strategy.
As of Friday, 73 additional nations had chosen to submit a submission that is less ambitious and provides no information about how their national goals would be met.
Professionals will likely struggle to assess progress in meeting the landmark” 30 by 30″ aim, which requires the preservation of 30 % of the land and sea by 2030, given the number of strategies submitted.