Nearly 200 nations adopted key agreement texts to accelerate action on 2030 global biodiversity targets

Overview Debates Related claims Topics Sources

Indigenous communities should have veto power over conservation projects affecting their lands

Wealthier countries should provide most international biodiversity financing

COP17 should establish enforceable national biodiversity commitments

Governments should phase out environmentally harmful agricultural subsidies even when this raises food prices

Nuclear power is essential to solving climate change

Environmental protection should come before economic development

Climate activists do more harm than good

Economic growth is more important than fighting climate change

Governments should ban private jets

Frequent flyers should pay a climate tax

Individual lifestyle changes are pointless in fighting climate change

People should be legally required to reduce their carbon footprint

Governments should encourage lower birth rates to protect the planet

Corporate social responsibility is mostly greenwashing

Free markets will solve the climate crisis better than regulation

Mass tourism does more harm than good

Dutch environmental policies unfairly target farmers for nitrogen pollution

Countries should prioritise economic growth over meeting emissions targets

Israel's massive explosive demolitions in Lebanon pose unacceptable seismic risks

International trade agreements should impose binding labour and environmental standards