Biodiversity COP 17: the EU’s priorities and the key issues on the table

Assessing progress in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in 2022, is one of the EU’s and its Member States’ priorities for COP17, an EU official said on 13 October 2026, ahead of the UN biodiversity summit in Armenia from 19 to 30 October. The conference will produce a call to action to keep the work going.

The “Yerevan Call to Action on Nature” will be announced and adopted during the leaders' summit on the 16^th, which EVP Teresa Ribera will attend.

Among the other priorities for the EU, officials stressed:

•support for the Cali Fund (multilateral financial mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of Digital Sequence Information on genetic resources), despite the obstacles preventing it from reaching its full potential, which must be addressed;

•need…