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近 200 个国家在亚美尼亚开了两周会，最后通宵谈判，终于在周六清晨达成了一份保护自然的新协议。可为什么报道说“钱仍是问题”？文章先描述会议闭幕的场面；再交代背景：2022 年各国定下 23 个到 2030 年的目标，这次会议正好走到一半；接着用联合国的评估说明进展远远不够；然后介绍新通过的“埃里温路径”要各国做什么，并用“政府一边花钱保护自然、一边补贴破坏自然的行业”这个例子说明有害补贴问题；随后用几组数字说明资金缺口；最后交代会议中的积极信号和环保组织的评价。阅读时可留意 however、still、even so 如何引出转折，以及 unless、so、because 如何说明条件和因果。

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Early on Saturday morning, after nearly 12 hours of final talks, countries at a UN meeting on nature in Yerevan, Armenia, finally reached an agreement. The meeting, known as COP17, had run for about two weeks. When its president, Armenia’s environment minister Hambardzum Matevosyan, brought down his hammer to approve the key decisions, delegates burst into applause.

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周六清晨，在亚美尼亚埃里温举行的联合国自然问题会议上，各国经过近 12 个小时的最后磋商，终于达成了协议。这次会议名为 COP17，已持续约两周。当会议主席、亚美尼亚环境部长Hambardzum Matevosyan落槌通过关键决定时，代表们爆发出掌声。

The talks were meant to check progress on a global deal made in 2022. That plan, called the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, set 23 targets to stop and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. One well-known goal is to protect 30% of the world’s land and seas by the end of the decade. Yerevan marked the halfway point.

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这次会谈旨在检查 2022 年达成的一项全球协议的进展。该计划名为“昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架”，设定了 23 个目标，要在 2030 年前遏制并扭转自然的丧失。其中一个广为人知的目标是，到本个十年结束时保护全球 30% 的陆地和海洋。埃里温会议正好处在中间节点。

The first global review of the plan brought worrying news. According to the UN, the world is on track to meet just one of the targets. The final decision warns that the 2030 goal will not be achieved unless action is rapidly sped up. Scientists say species are now disappearing about 100 times faster than the natural rate because of human activities.

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对该计划的首次全球评估带来了令人担忧的消息。据联合国称，全世界只有一个目标有望按期实现。最终决定警告说，除非迅速加快行动，否则 2030 年的目标将无法实现。科学家表示，由于人类活动，物种目前消失的速度约为自然速率的 100 倍。

In response, countries agreed on a plan called the Yerevan Pathway. It asks governments to improve their national nature strategies, follow their progress more closely, share technology and find more money. It also calls for reform of at least $500 billion in public support for industries that harm nature. One researcher at the meeting gave large-scale fishing as an example: governments pay to protect nature, but they also pay for activities that damage it.

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作为回应，各国通过了一份名为“埃里温路径”的计划。它要求各国政府完善本国的自然保护战略，更密切地跟踪进展，共享技术，并筹集更多资金。它还呼吁改革至少 5000 亿美元、用于支持危害自然的行业的公共补贴。一位与会研究人员以大规模捕捞为例：政府一边花钱保护自然，一边又为破坏自然的活动买单。

Money, however, remains the biggest problem. In 2022, countries agreed to put $30 billion towards nature recovery by the end of the decade. Since then, many nations have moved aid to defence and energy, so promises are coming too slowly, the UN says. At this meeting, more than $1 billion was pledged, and about half came from private donors. A fund that asks companies to pay for using genetic information from nature had received only $10,000 when the talks began.

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然而，资金仍是最大的问题。2022 年，各国同意到本个十年末投入 300 亿美元用于自然恢复。但此后，许多国家把援助资金转向了国防和能源，联合国表示，因此资金承诺到位得太慢。本次会议上共认捐了超过 10 亿美元，其中约一半来自私人捐助者。一个要求企业为使用来自自然的遗传信息付费的基金，在会谈开始时只收到了 1 万美元。

Still, there were some reasons for hope. The last meeting, in 2024, ran so long that it had to be finished months later in Rome, but this one completed all of its main texts. Countries also chose Quito, Ecuador, to host the next talks in 2028. Catherine Weller of the charity Fauna & Flora said the deal was not very exciting or detailed. Even so, she called it good news, because countries cannot simply continue to 2030 without changing course.

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尽管如此，仍有一些值得期待的理由。上一届会议于 2024 年举行，因拖得太久，几个月后不得不在罗马继续完成；而这一次按时完成了所有主要文本。各国还选定厄瓜多尔基多主办 2028 年的下一届会谈。慈善组织“野生动植物保护国际”的凯瑟琳·韦勒说，这份协议并不怎么令人振奋，也不够具体。即便如此，她仍称之为好消息，因为各国不能不调整方向就这样一直走到 2030 年。

新闻来源

• BBC News · Global nature talks reach deal but money remains an issue (31 Oct 2026)
• Xinhua · COP17’s marathon talks yield Yerevan Pathway to speed up biodiversity action (31 Oct 2026)
• Carbon Brief · COP17: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan (Oct 2026)
• WWF · Countries agree to scale action on 2030 nature targets at COP17, but finance issues continue to haunt implementation (31 Oct 2026)

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