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"[C]limate change is just a very, very expensive form of tax."

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"Humanity is on thin ice — and that ice is melting fast."

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The latest installment of the UN's biodiversity summit began on Monday in Cali, Colombia, with nearly 200 nations in attendance and around 23K delegates registered to participate.

The summit is the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity. The convention was signed in 1992 with the objective of conserving biological diversity and ensuring "fair and equitable sharing" of utilizing genetic resources.

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The conference is the first since the Kunming-Montreal Global Diversity Framework was signed in 2022, containing 23 targets to be reached by 2030 — including protecting 30% of land and sea area and mobilizing $200B worth of biodiversity solutions.

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Less than half of all signatories have submitted national targets, of which only approximately a third have met a UN deadline to publish plans to achieve these goals. Only five out of 17 nations containing 70% of the world's biodiversity have submitted targets (Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Mexico).

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The US, one of the 17 "megadiverse" nations, is not a signatory of the biodiversity convention, while G7 nations Germany and the UK have not submitted their plans. The UK, alongside over 75 other nations, has provided a technical document called a national target submission.

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The UN's 16th biodiversity summit began on Monday in Cali, Columbia, with nearly 200 nations in attendance and approx. 23K delegates registered to participate.

The summit is the sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP16) of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity. The convention was signed in 1992 with the objective of conserving biological diversity and ensuring "fair and equitable sharing" of utilizing genetic resources.

The conference is its first since the Kunming-Montreal Global Diversity Framework was signed in 2022, containing 23 targets to be reached by 2030 including to protect 30% of land and sea, and to "mobilize" $200B worth of biodiversity solutions.

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So far, less than half of all signatories have submitted national targets, of which only approximately a third have met a UN deadline to publish plans to achieve these goals. Only five out of 17 nations containing 70% of the world's biodiversity have submitted targets (Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Mexico).

The US, one of the 17 "megadiverse" nations, is not a signatory of the biodiversity convention, while G7 nations Germany and the UK have not submitted their plans. The UK, alongside over 75 other nations, however have provided a technical document called a national target submission.

With natural habitats across the world vanishing at a dangerous speed, now more than ever the international community, including both state and non-state actors, must come together and commit to solutions to this environmental crisis. Biodiversity is integral to the Earth's sustainability – without immediate action it may be too late for this alarming trend to ever be reversed.

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Editor’s note: Biodiversity band-aids

The global elite continue to repeat claims of a human-engineered climate disaster as if it is a certified fact. The environment, as it always has, is destined to change due to a multitude of factors that are often way beyond our wildest understanding – it is arrogant to suggest otherwise and naïve to treat the word of the world's establishment as if it were gospel.

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There is a 50% chance that 16% of Earth's land will be protected for wildlife by 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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What percent of Earth's land will be protected for wildlife on the following dates?

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Those in high echelons of power continue to repeat claims of a human-engineered climate disaster as if it were a certified fact. The environment, as it always has, is destined to change and evolve due to a multitude of factors that are often way beyond our wildest understanding — it's inappropriate to suggest otherwise. A more nuanced view of the power of natural complexity is required.

With natural habitats across the world vanishing at a dangerous speed, now more than ever the international community, including both state and non-state actors, must come together and commit to solutions to this environmental crisis. Biodiversity is integral to the Earth's sustainability — without immediate action, it may be too late for this alarming trend to ever be reversed.

There is a 50% chance that at least 16.3% of Earth's land will be protected for wildlife by 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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