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UN Report Finds Growing Global Commitment to Biodiversity Goals, Highlights Urgent Need to Accelerate Action Through 2030

  • News | 15 Oct 2026
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Countries have made significant progress in establishing national commitments to protect and restore nature but greater ambition and faster implementation is needed to meet the world’s biodiversity targets, according to a United Nations report.

The State of Biodiversity Action report, formally launched by UN Secretary-General António Guterres just ahead of global biodiversity talks in Yerevan, provides the first global assessment of collective progress under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in December 2022 with 23 targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and four long-term goals for 2050.

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16 Oct 2026

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