Building momentum for biodiversity

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest climate report. While momentum is building to tackle the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, the pressure to act across systems is at an all-time high to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half, protect 30% of the planet by 2030, and scale up existing sustainable solutions. To enable effective action, the world came together at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) and agreed on a Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This is a great indication of negotiated success at the most difficult level: a unanimous global agreement that frames goals, targets, process, resources, equity and accountability to develop an action plan for nature over the next decade, and, ultimately, to support the future of humanity. It’s time to harness the GBF to drive progress. We don’t have to wait. While biodiversity and nature are complex, they don’t have to be complicated. There is a simple path and solutions exist that can help us: