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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
In this video, Ines Verleye, Senior Biodiversity Expert at the Federal Public Service, Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, provides advice on potential strategies to mobilize resources for NBSAP implementation. The video explains how countries can leverage the limited resources available to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s using diverse financing mechanisms.

Jillian Campbell: From theory to practice with a national-level focus
Jillian Campbell, Senior Programme Management Officer at the CBD Secretariat, lays out the review and update process of national biodiversity strategy and action plans (NBSAPs) in alignment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Frédéric Castell: Working together towards agricultural biodiversity
Frédéric Castell, Senior Natural Resources Officer, Biodiversity Unit FAO, talks about the specific relevance of the global biodiversity framework to agricultural biodiversity. This presentation shows the multi-level and cross-sectoral nature of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It provides insights into how the agricultural sector can contribute to the full realization of the CBD 2050 vision of ‘living in harmony with nature’.

David Cooper: How is the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework important?
The global biodiversity framework helps to unpack the action needed in this decade to reduce biodiversity loss by 2030 and put biodiversity and nature on the path to recovery. David Cooper, the acting executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, presents the overview of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at a webinar organized by ACP MEAs.

John Wasswa Mulumba: Generating change through collaboration and synergies
John Wasswa Mulumba, Senior Principal Research Officer at the Uganda National Agricultural Research Organization and National Focal Point of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, shares his experience on the importance of enhanced collaboration and synergies between the CBD and other Multilateral Environmental Agreements. He highlights that cooperation at the national level is key to addressing cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary biodiversity issues.

Erie Tamale: Roadmap to achieve the goals of the global biodiversity framework by 2030
In this video Erie Tamale, the Head of the Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Unit of the CBD Secretariat simplifies the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework's goals and targets and presents the implementation and monitoring roadmap up until 2030.