Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan

Mongabay
Oct 19, 2026, 4:23 pm58 ptsTrending
As the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity’s 17th summit opens in Yerevan, Armenia, on Oct. 19, what’s at stake for Africa? In 2022, parties signed the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, agreeing to maintain, restore, and substantially increase the area of natural ecosystems and end human-induced…

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