"Kunming-Montreal Framework" halfway through implementation, many call for greater efforts to protect biodiversity

More than half of the 2030 action targets of the KunmingMontreal Global Biodiversity Framework have already passed, but overall progress has still not met expectations. On September 8, several Chinese and foreign participants in Kunming said that all Parties need to further accelerate action to ensure the relevant targets are implemented on schedule. This global biodiversity blueprint, known as the “KunmingMontreal Framework,” was advanced to adoption by China as the COP15 host country. According to the latest progress, 172 Parties have formulated national targets aligned with the framework, 107 Parties have updated their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, and 193 million hectares of ecological restoration areas have been added worldwide. However, the article notes that the trends of global ecological degradation and species loss have not yet been fundamentally reversed, and insufficient funding, technology, and capacity remain the main obstacles, with particularly acute compliance pressure on developing countries. Huang Runqiu, China’s Minister of Ecology and Environment, stressed at the Kunming dialogue that systematic, transformative measures should be taken, and financial and technical support to developing countries should be increased. The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and representatives from Colombia, Armenia, and others also said that the next step is to turn the framework commitments into concrete governance outcomes. COP17, to be held in Armenia in October, will conduct a global midterm review of the implementation progress of the “KunmingMontreal Framework.”