Nations are steeling for a disappointing report card at this month’s UN biodiversity summit, with governments falling short on their commitments to protect the plants, animals and ecosystems that sustain life on Earth.
The so-called COP17 summit in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, will be a reckoning for the nearly 200 nations that joined the landmark “Paris Agreement for Nature” in 2022 but have been slow to act on its objectives.
