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Nature Positive at the UN CBD COP

In 2022 an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted. The CBD COP is a vital opportunity to ensure nature-positive outcomes are secured.

The Nature Positive Initiative is proactive in working with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat to ensure all countries who adopted the Biodiversity Plan maintain the ambition they pledged – to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.

In previous years, Nature Positive was backed by many international conservation and environmental organisations to ensure that the world kept sight of what’s needed to tackle the nature crisis. Now, as countries pivot to deliver on their commitments made in the Biodiversity Plan, there remains a role for the Nature Positive Initiative and all members to keep up the pressure on ambitious implementation of the plan and support a more sustainable future.

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will convene this year in Cali, Colombia. It is the first COP since the adoption of the historic agreement adopted in Montreal and will be an important indicator of the level of commitment worldwide. Countries are required to submit their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and there are further negotiations scheduled on resource mobilization and the monitoring framework.

 

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The Nature Positive Pavilion

The Nature Positive Initiative will coordinate a large Nature Positive Pavilion inside the main conference centre over the two weeks of COP16, with participation from all partners.

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