CALI, Colombia—The United Nations, scientists and governments made an urgent call on Wednesday for increased funding to protect coral reefs under threat of extinction. Research this year shows that 77 percent of the world’s reefs are affected by bleaching, mainly due to warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change.
CALI, Colombia—The United Nations, scientists and governments made an urgent call on Wednesday for increased funding to protect coral reefs under threat of extinction.
The findings prompted a UN special emergency session—typically called to address escalating conflicts or natural disasters—on corals to be convened on sidelines of the UN biodiversity summit, known as the Convention on Biological Diversity 16th Conference of Parties , nearing its end after two weeks in Cali, Colombia.
By 2030, the fund seeks to leverage up to $3 billion in public and private finance to support coral reef conservation efforts. Around $225 million has been raised to date. Next year, a UN ocean conference will take place in Nice, France, and countries are being urged beforehand to pledge more to the UN global fund for coral reefs with the aim of mobilizing an additional $150 million in donations by the conference.
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