UN report urges countries to treble nature funding by 2030

Nature-based solutions remain significantly underfunded. Picture: John Gollop/iStock/Getty Images

Global funding to combat biodiversity loss and climate change needs to treble by the end of the decade, a major UN report has found.

The second edition of the State of Finance for Nature report warned that so-called “nature-based solutions” remain significantly underfunded amid unprecedented extinction threats and degradation of land across the world.