1. Nature Conservation: Natural Lands and Biological Diversity

Abstract

The first part of the fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) took place online and at Kunming, China, on 11–15 October. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the dates for the second part of COP-15 are yet to be confirmed. The concurrent meetings, along with COP-15 to the CBD, are the tenth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Cartagena Protocol, MOP-10) and the fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (Nagoya Protocol, MOP-4). The pre-COP meeting was conducted by Columbia, in consultation with the CBD Secretariat, on 30 August. Participants urged the need for further actions and support for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The three specific objectives of this high-level political commitment are: the need to promote agreements regarding the critical elements in relation to the new GBF in terms of sustainable consumption and production patterns and integration of biodiversity in productive sectors and means of implementation; the identification of ways to articulate key international alliances and coalitions on biodiversity, environment, and sustainable recovery; and the encouragement of early announcements for the implementation of the new GBF.