Stay up to date on the latest developments around COP16 and connect with the EU B&B Platform in Cali this October!

The 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15 to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity marked an historic achievement in the mobilisation against biodiversity loss.    

COP16 will be the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework, also known as the Biodiversity Plan. Touted as the first implementation COP, various actors, from governments to non-state actors like academia, indigenous communities, youth groups, businesses, financial institutions and civil society will come together to share progress to date and explore plans for the future to contribute to the implementation of the Biodiversity Plan.   

The voice of leading businesses will be critical at COP16 to signal that business must, can and wants to be part of the solution. Many are taking action to assess, commit, transform and disclose on nature, including at a sector level and by developing a nature strategy. But we all need to do more to achieve the collective goal of halting and revering nature loss by 2030 – in just 6 years.    

In the run up to COP16, stay informed of the latest developments through the BusinessForNature website and the events announced in this newsletter. The EU Business & Biodiversity Platform will be at COP16 this year. If you are planning to attend, please connect with us via email: eubb_platformicf [dot] com (eubb_platform[at]icf[dot]com)