COP17 closed with a unanimous diagnosis of collapse, yet shielded against any real obligation to act. In short: world leaders agreed to sound the fire alarm, as long as no one is obliged to put out the flames.<\/p>\n
Finances:<\/strong> USD 700 billion a year is needed to halt biodiversity loss. What did they announce? A mere 1.8 billion. A drop in the ocean. The summit’s success consisted of kicking the can down the road to the next meeting in Quito in 2028. Meanwhile, protected areas are left without a budget and the crisis advances. Everything is connected: if the biosphere collapses, the climate does too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In short: world leaders agreed to sound the fire alarm, as long as no one is obliged to put out the flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genesisarg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe empty Cali Fund:<\/strong> What was supposed to be the grand solution currently holds just over USD 10,000 against a target of one billion. Big pharma remains exempt from paying.
\nThe art of doing nothing:<\/strong> “Consensus by subtraction” was applied. If there were obligations in the draft, they were erased. Everything was reduced to voluntary recommendations, watered-down words, and unfunded promises.
\nLatin America in the red: We hold 40% of the world’s biodiversity, but the money arriving to protect it (upon which half of our GDP depends) is only 10% of what is needed.
\nTurning a blind eye to the data:<\/strong> Political tensions managed to weaken even the scientific reports. Instead of taking action based on the biodiversity panel (IPBES), they decided to simply “take note” and look the other way.<\/p>\n