Yerevan, Oct. 20 -- Global spotlight is on conserving the world's fast-diminishing biodiversity as the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) started on Monday, October 19, in Armenia.

"In 2022, 196 countries made commitments. But we are all accountable to each other and to future generations. What happens here in Yerevan matters. Billions of people whose lives are being upended by the impacts of biodiversity loss depend on progress being made here in the next two weeks," the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biodiversity was quoted as saying in a statement by the United Nations.

She insisted that "taking action for nature does work", and called for the "untapped ...