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Countries committed to submit their plans for meeting the agreement before the biodiversity COP16 in Cali, Colombia, which begins this month – but only 25 countries have done so.
Nearly two years ago, the world struck a once-in-a-decade deal in Montreal, Canada, that included targets to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, reform billions of dollars on environmentally harmful subsidies, and slash pesticide usage. Countries committed to submit their plans for meeting the agreement before the biodiversity COP16 in Cali, Colombia, which begins this month – but only 25 countries have done so.
More countries are expected to announce their NBSAP plans at Cop16 in Colombia, which runs from 21 October to 1 November. The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) is a strategic document that identifies and prioritizes the actions and strategies needed to conserve a country’s biodiversity. NBSAPs are a key first step in turning the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into national plans for action.
Countries promised to save 30% of land and sea for nature – but as their deadline approaches, only 24 have followed through with a plan More than 80% of countries have failed to submit plans to meet a UN agreement to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems, new analysis has found. The other 170 countries have been unable to meet the deadline. The world has never yet met a single target set in the history of UN biodiversity agreements, and there has been a major push to make sure this decade was different.
Only five of the 17 megadiverse countries, home to about 70% of the world’s biodiversity, produced NBSAPs: Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Mexico. Suriname was the only Amazon rainforest nation to submit a plan, and no Congo basin nations had produced NBSAPs by the deadline. Canada, Italy, France, and Japan were the only G7 nations to meet the deadline. The UK has submitted a technical document to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Still, it is not expected to publish its plan until the beginning of 2025, citing the change of government.
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Despite hosting the summit, Colombia also failed to meet the deadline but said it would present its plan during the meeting. Brazil, which failed to meet the deadline, said it was formulating a plan that would last until the middle of the century and had been delayed due to the scale of what it was trying to achieve. Other countries are expected to present NBSAPs at Cop16 but it was unclear how many would be unveiled, the UN said.
