UN biodiversity conference opens in Armenia with no 2030 target on track

Kunming-Montreal targets for 2030

23 targets, none on track

A UN report finds none of the 23 targets agreed in Montreal in 2022 is on track, as countries move "far too slowly," said Astrid Schomaker, who heads the UN biodiversity convention.

"For every dollar invested in protecting nature, 30 dollars are spent on destroying it."

— UN Secretary-General António Guterres

And us?

Canada signed the framework and aims to protect 30 per cent of its land and waters by 2030, but about 15 per cent is protected today.

Alain Branchaud of the Société pour la nature et les parcs du Québec, a conservation group, says the Building Canada Act lets Ottawa bypass the Species at Risk Act.