Governments risk missing nearly all global biodiversity targets

Wall Street Turkish - International (English) · Oct 19, 2026 · 1m

Nearly every government on Earth committed in Montreal at the end of 2022 to better protect biodiversity. Targets included protecting 30% of the planet for nature, restoring nearly a third of its most degraded ecosystems, and reforming at least $500 billion in environmentally harmful subsidies. Yet four years later, governments look almost certain to miss nearly all those goals. In Yerevan, Armenia, countries are gathering to decide what to do next. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the lack of progress means “the war on nature has not ended,” and that “nature will not survive…