YerevanNature finance averaged under $50 billion a year, against a $200 billion goal.
A special biodiversity fund drew under $140 million from developed countries in 2 years.
The UN biodiversity convention’s report says the 2025 target of $20 billion a year in public aid to developing countries was likely missed.
Negotiators meet 19 October at COP17, where finance is likely a key dispute.
How each outlet framed it
- Carbon Brief leans critical
- tallies the nature-finance shortfall in concrete sums: $200bn gap, under $140m to the framework fund, $6,000 to the Cali Fund
Sources: Carbon Brief