Three ways the upcoming UN biodiversity summit could make a difference

Planning on how to achieve biodiversity targets, finding the funds and putting nature front and centre across governments, businesses and communities will be a step towards making real progress towards halting biodiversity loss

Many due to attend Cop16, including myself, wonder whether the promise made to 'halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030' is achievable.

When negotiations at Cop15 — the UN’s biodiversity conference — ended in December 2022, many delegates breathed a sigh of relief.

Threatening snowstorms outside the convention centre in Montreal, Canada, seemed to lift just as the political weather changed and the long-awaited Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework was agreed. It’s mission: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 in order to achieve the ultimate goal of a society living in harmony with nature by 2050.