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UN meeting on Harmony with Nature urges faster action, indigenous inclusion and scaled-up finance
Summary
At a high-level United Nations meeting on April 22, 2025, delegates urged immediate, multilateral action to align development with nature, stressed the role of indigenous knowledge and called for substantially increased finance and policy integration to meet the 2030 Agenda and biodiversity targets.
Delegates at a United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting on April 22, 2025, told member states that the world must urgently reorient development to live in harmony with nature, emphasizing stronger multilateral action, greater inclusion of indigenous peoples and stepped-up funding for biodiversity and climate measures.
The meeting, convened pursuant to Resolution 79/210 of Dec. 19, 2024, brought ministers, UN officials and observers who framed the challenge as immediate and systemic: speakers cited accelerating biodiversity loss, climate extremes and the need to integrate indigenous knowledge alongside science in governance and financing.
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