State of Biodiversity Action: "We remain off track to meet our collective goals" (I. Andersen, UNEP)

"The new global report, State of Biodiversity Action, reveals a sobering truth - we remain off track to meet our collective goals" in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, said Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the UN and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, following the release of the report on 15 October 2026.

It will inform the first global review of collective progress under the Framework at COP 17, taking place in Yerevan, from 19 to 30 October.

The report stresses that “countries have made significant progress in establishing national commitments to protect and restore nature, but greater ambition and faster implementation are needed to meet the world’s biodiversity targets”.

Indeed, while Parties and other actors have taken action…