African Development Bank (AfDB) officials say African countries struggle to mobilise biodiversity funding ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The AfDB frames the problem as a financing gap that affects biodiversity conservation efforts.
According to the reports, the AfDB says governments need to treat biodiversity conservation as a national investment priority and integrate it into wider development planning. This approach is presented as a way to improve how funding is organised and mobilised. Both outlets describe the same AfDB message, with one focusing on why countries struggle to raise biodiversity finance and the other presenting the same explanation under the COP17 banner, without adding separate figures or policy details.
