“The Biodiversity Plan: For Life on Earth” is the first phrase of the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) campaign. The GBF was adopted during COP15, which took place two years ago in Montreal.
This historic Framework supports the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, a list of 17 objectives adopted as a blueprint for “peace and prosperity for people and planet.” The GBF also outlines 23 targets for 2030, and 4 goals for 2050, in an effort to live harmoniously with nature.
The four goals of the Biodiversity Plan are:
1. Protect and Restore: By 2050, ecosystems will be maintained, enhanced, or restored, the extinction rate has been reduced tenfold, and we have an abundance of native wild species on healthy and resilient levels.
2. Prosper with Nature: By 2050, biodiversity will be sustainably used and its contributions to people maintained, enhanced, or restored.
3. Share Benefits Fairly: By 2050, all benefits from genetic resources will be fairly, inclusively, and equally shared and sustainably increased.
4. Invest and Collaborate: By 2050, the funding gap is closed. Implementation will be supposed by capacity-buiding and strong technical and scientific cooperation.
During COP15, a plan for implementation and monitoring the GBF was outlined, including national targets for all member countries. At COP16, the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of GBF, Parties will assess progress and submit updated National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). Therefore, COP16 is known as ‘the first implementation COP.’
The phrase “The Biodiversity Plan: For Life on Earth” is part of the COP’s communications strategy to support the implementation of the GBF, as a clear, easily understandable, public-facing name for the Framework.