The seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity ended on October 31 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The conference passed relevant decisions and conference reports on topics such as the first global collective review of progress in the implementation of the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework”, resource mobilization, etc., and urged all parties to speed up implementation of the “Kunming Framework”. COP17 is scheduled to end on the 30th. After all-night “extra time” consultations, the conference passed global review decisions on the morning of the 31st local time, including the “Yerevan Path” proposed by the Armenian presidency to speed up implementation of the framework, urging all parties to strengthen international cooperation and support for developing countries to fill the gaps in the current implementation of the framework. Before the end of the meeting, Astrid Shomek, Executive Secretary of the Convention Secretariat, said that the current conference has completed a global review and clarified existing gaps, and now it is necessary to continue along the “Yerevan Path” to achieve the 2030 global recovery goals. The conference also considered topics such as financial mechanisms, biodiversity and climate change, marine and coastal biological diversity, forest biological diversity, and traditional knowledge, synthetic biology and biodiversity mainstreaming. The Conference decided that the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention will be held in Ecuador in 2028.

The seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity ended on October 31 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The conference passed relevant decisions and conference reports on topics such as the first global collective review of progress in the implementation of the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework”, resource mobilization, etc., and urged all parties to speed up implementation of the “Kunming Framework”. COP17 is scheduled to end on the 30th. After all-night “extra time” consultations, the conference passed global review decisions on the morning of the 31st local time, including the “Yerevan Path” proposed by the Armenian presidency to speed up implementation of the framework, urging all parties to strengthen international cooperation and support for developing countries to fill the gaps in the current implementation of the framework. Before the end of the meeting, Astrid Shomek, Executive Secretary of the Convention Secretariat, said that the current conference has completed a global review and clarified existing gaps, and now it is necessary to continue along the “Yerevan Path” to achieve the 2030 global recovery goals. The conference also considered topics such as financial mechanisms, biodiversity and climate change, marine and coastal biological diversity, forest biological diversity, and traditional knowledge, synthetic biology and biodiversity mainstreaming. The Conference decided that the Eighteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention will be held in Ecuador in 2028.