The world promised to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 – now it needs to turn pledges into action

By Gabriella Santini, Post-doctoral Researcher in Anthropology, UCL
Emily Woodhouse, Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Environmental Anthropology, UCL
Simon Chin-Yee, Lecturer in International Development, UCL

The UN’s main biodiversity summit, held every two years, wrapped up in Yerevan, Armenia, on October 31.

Biodiversity summits don’t attract the same fanfare as their climate change equivalents, yet loss of nature threatens food systems, water security, health, livelihoods and cultural traditions. Forests, soils, wetlands and oceans absorb around half the carbon dioxide humans emit, while climate change is itself one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss.

This summit, technically the 17th

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