The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is a United Nations agreement to jointly safeguard nature that was reached on December 19, 2022, at the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15). The agreement seeks to protect 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 and to take...
Global Biodiversity FrameworkThe 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and Paris Agreement (PA) are highly complementary agreements where each depends on the other's success to be effective. The GBF offers a very specific framework of interim goals and targets that break down the...
A historic biodiversity agreement was reached on Monday at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montreal, Canada."The package is adopted," the president of the COP15 and China's ministe
known as COP15, in 2021 in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, and the second part of COP15 in 2022 in Montreal, Canada, which led to the adoption of the framework, a historic agreement among countries aiming to reverse biodiversity...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) appreciates the contributions made by China, which has done an extraordinary job on the agreement of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, according to Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. ...
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework commits governments to halt and reverse species loss, protect 30% of land and ocean, sustainably manage the other 70% and respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples. These targets are critical to address the biodiversity crises and will ultimately ...