31 October 2024 Lincoln Professor comments on New Zealand's failure to submit plans to UN biodiversity summit

In an article from Science Media Centre, experts from around the country were asked for their comments regarding New Zealand's failure to submit plans on how we'll achieve targets to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 including Lincoln University's Professor Amanda Black. 

Governments from around the world will convene in Colombia next week for the United Nations’ biodiversity summit (COP16). It is the first gathering since parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity committed to developing new strategies and targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15.

But with COP16 less than a week away, more than 80% of countries, including New Zealand, have not submitted updated plans to meet these targets, according to analysis by The Guardian and Carbon Brief.

The summit will run from 21 October – 1 November 2024 in Cali, Colombia.

Read Professor Black's comments here >>>