A thousand delegates from more than 140 countries have started negotiations in Rome on the “zero” draft of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework and targets for nature to 2030. The new framework will be considered by the 196 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15), Kunming, China, 15-28 October 2020.

Almost ten years ago, the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) held in Nagoya, Japan, 2010, adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, with the Vision of “Living in Harmony with Nature by 2050”. Many elements of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets are reflected in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030).

The CBD’s 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP14) established an Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to develop a framework that would follow this plan, and at the first meeting of the Working Group in Nairobi in August 2019, the co-chairs were mandated to prepare a “zero draft” text of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, published on 13 January 2020.

This initial “zero” draft is based on extensive consultations, advice from governments, scientists, indigenous peoples, NGOs and others, gathered through dozens of meetings and hundreds of written submissions.

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