Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
The sustainable use and conservation of agricultural biodiversity requires a cross-sectoral approach, which can be challenging when developing strategies, action plans and targets that are fit for purpose. Agricultural and environmental communities at the global, regional and national levels need to have the capacity to deal with sectorial barriers that limit their participation in and the implementation and reporting of agricultural biodiversity activities. An important component of building such capacity is ensuring a shared understanding of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity framework, adopted at the 15th Meeting of the Conference to the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Decision 15/4).
The Global Biodiversity Framework aims to catalyze, enable and galvanize urgent and transformative action by governments, and subnational and local authorities, with the involvement of all of society, to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. More than half of the Framework’s targets are of relevance to the sustainable management of agricultural biodiversity, and most of these targets are relevant to implementing other Multilateral Environmental Agreements, such as the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions.
Webinar: Unpacking the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
FAO, together with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and in the framework of the EU funded project ACP MEAs 3, organized a series of regional webinars to discuss priorities and actions following the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP15) and the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
Ines Verleye: How to successfully mobilize and manage resources |
Jillian Campbell: From theory to practice with a national-level focus |
Frédéric Castell: Working together towards agricultural biodiversity
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David Cooper: How is the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework important?
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John Wasswa Mulumba: Generating change through collaboration and synergies |
Erie Tamale: Roadmap to achieve the goals of the global biodiversity framework by 2030
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ACP MEAs 3 actions
- Regional webinars/technical sessions to prepare countries and regions for CBD COP15 and post-2020 processes.
- Support participation of agrobiodiversity experts and negotiators in CBD COP 15.
- Organize post CBD COP15 information webinars to support ACP countries with the implementation of the GBF.