A waiting game – crucial decisions needed in final days of the UN Biodiversity meeting
28/03/2022
FAO calls for the agriculture and food sectors to be recognized for their fundamental role in ensuring the conservation, sustainable use, and restoration of biodiversity.
Geneva, Switzerland – Negotiations between the 196 Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are now well under way in Geneva and all eyes are set on decisions that need to be made before the third Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework closes on Tuesday.
These decisions will be crucial in ensuring that there is solid draft of the Post-2020 Framework ready for negotiation and adoption at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Kunming, China, later this year.
The Framework, also described as the ‘Paris Agreement for biodiversity’, outlines an ambitious strategy to engage the world in protecting biodiversity and rebuilding a future where humankind is ‘living in harmony with nature’.
As an observer to the CBD, FAO is present at the Geneva meeting which is the first opportunity for in-person exchanges since Parties gathered in 2020 at FAO’s Headquarters in Rome for the second Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group.