Next week, leaders and representatives from nearly 200 countries will gather in Yerevan, Armenia, for the United Nations biodiversity summit known as COP17.

It is the first time countries will formally take stock of their progress toward the global actions to protect biodiversity that they agreed to in 2022 — and the stakes are high. From the savannas of Brazil to the Pacific’s coral reefs, wildlife is under severe threat. One million species of animals and plants are at risk of extinction — and humanity is largely to blame.

Conservation International’s experts have consulted governments in the leadup to the summit and will be in Yerevan pushing for faster action for nature.

Here are three critical questions ahead of the summit:

Is the world on track to meet its goals?

In 2022, nearly every country on Earth signed on to the most ambitious plan ever to reverse nature loss — a sweeping framework made up of 23 targets and an unprecedented goal: conserving 30 percent of all lands and seas by 2030.

This…