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Expanding nature reserves to cover at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030 is the flagship proposal of high-stakes talks to rescue Earth's animals and plants from human destruction. But experts agree that a new target is the easy part and will be ineffective without funding and rigorous monitoring. Negotiators, who wrapped up talks in Geneva on Tuesday, are working on a draft text of the so-called global biodiversity framework to be adopted at the UN COP15 meeting in Kunming, China, later this year.

Expanding nature reserves to cover at least 30 percent of the planet by 2030 is the flagship proposal of high-stakes talks to rescue Earth's animals and plants from human destruction.

GENEVA — Can humanity curb spending that harms the world's biodiversity and instead focus funding on protecting it?That question is at the heart of international negotiations in Geneva, which will set the stage for a crucial United Nations COP 15 biodiversity summit in China later this year. Almost 200 countries are due to adopt a global framework this year to safeguard nature

Can humanity curb spending that harms the world's biodiversity and instead focus funding on protecting it?

The crucial global framework to stop biodiversity loss is already delayed by two years due to the pandemic