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Africans push finance and Indigenous rights at Yerevan biodiversity summit
Original: Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan
The UN biodiversity summit COP17 has opened in Yerevan, Armenia, with African delegations pressing two priorities: securing more money for conservation and stronger recognition of Indigenous rights. African negotiators argue that expanded finance is essential to meet global biodiversity targets, and that Indigenous communities' land rights must be central to implementation plans.
Why now: The UN COP17 biodiversity summit opening in Yerevan has drawn attention to African negotiators' demands on conservation funding and Indigenous rights.
YerevanArmeniaAfrican negotiatorsUN biodiversity summit COP17Indigenous communities
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- Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan · news - Mongabay
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