The entry into force of #BBNJAgreement will drive action for #OurOcean forward, complementing🌏treaties & regional conventions on marine biodiversity. Multilateralism has built the ship. For propulsion, implementation supported by experience under @unbiodiversity.bsky.social is essential.

✨The new Rio Conventions website is now live. Explore how @unbiodiversity.bsky.social, @unccd.bsky.social and UNFCCC work together to tackle shared challenges and create lasting solutions for people and #ForNature. 🟢Visit the website:🔗 rioconventions.org

Faced with the ozone-depletion crisis, the world united to avert disaster. On #WorldOzoneDay, we celebrate #MontrealProtocol and the power of multilateralism. To halt and reverse biodiversity loss, the world must accelerate the implementation of the🌎Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF.

One global pact quietly changed the course of our planet’s future. Not only did it help heal the ozone layer, but it’s also reversing the impacts of climate change. Wondering how? Our article explains: www.unep.org/news-and-sto... #WorldOzoneDay

Ahead of #SBSTTA27 join us to: ✅share knowledge about @unbiodiversity.bsky.social's expanded Programme of Work on forest biodiversity and its alignment with the 🌏Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF. ✅highlight lessons learned. ❇ Registration➡️ bit.ly/4pmZuvM

At #COP16Colombia, Parties to the CBD adopted new mechanisms for describing and updating ecologically or biologically significant marine areas #EBSAs. The CBD Secretariat ( @unbiodiversity.bsky.social) now accepts #EBSAs submissions on a rolling basis. 🔵Learn more:▶️ cbd.int/marine/ebsas

📣Reminder! Join us on 15 September from 13.30 - 16.00 (Central European Summer Time) for the IPBES Online Global Dialogue Workshop to promote the use of IPBES products in policymaking! For registration details, please contact your @ipbes.net and @unbiodiversity.bsky.social national focal points.

Why is biosafety important? How does it contribute to #PeaceWithNature and #GlobalGoals? 📽️ @unbiodiversity.bsky.social explains how the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol address the safety aspects of biotechnology, and highlights key decisions adopted at #COPMOP11 #COP16Colombia in Cali last year.

Thank you, Omar Siddique, new Head of @un-habitat.bsky.social Canada office, for your visit to @unbiodiversity.bsky.social. It was great to discuss how sustainable urban planning & development can be allies in the endeavour to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, such as through #Target12 of #KMGBF

Ahead of #UNGA80 and #UNEA7, the Liaison Group of Biodiversity-related Conventions met in Geneva on 8 September to spotlight synergies in motion. Cooperation on reporting, financing and communication is already advancing the implementation of the🌎Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF

𝟚𝟚 years ago the Cartagena Protocol on #Biosafety entered into force. Happy 22nd anniversary to the Parties and, indeed, to the entire world! 🎊 Watch the anniversary video message from @astridschomaker.bsky.social, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity⬇️

📢 @IPBES.net is hosting a webinar on knowledge generation catalysis! Explore knowledge gaps from the #NexusAssessment and #TransformativeChange Assessment and upcoming IPBES work. 📅 12 Sept 2025 ⏰ 1–4 p.m. CEST ➡ Register by 11 September to join 🌐 www.ipbes.net/events/webin...

#Target12 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about enhancing green spaces and urban planning for human well-being and biodiversity. Learn more: 🔗 cbd.int/gbf/targets/12

The race is on for everyone, everywhere to breathe clean air. On #CleanAirDay my message is simple: the race against air pollution can - and must - be won. Get it right and we can stop over 8 million premature deaths each year. Be part of the solution to #BeatPollution: www.cleanairblueskies.org

📣Reminder! Join us on 9 September from 13.30 - 16.00 (Central European Summer Time) for the IPBES Online Global Dialogue Workshop to promote the use of IPBES products in policymaking! For registration details, please contact your @ipbes.net and @unbiodiversity.bsky.social national focal points.

Racing towards clean energy and ending waste burning will clear the track towards healthier lives, cleaner skies, and a safer climate for billions. Sunday is #CleanAirDay. Join the race against air pollution to accelerate solutions & secure clean air for all: www.cleanairblueskies.org/about/theme

📣 Join us on 15 September from 13.30 - 16.00 (Central European Summer Time) for the IPBES Online Global Dialogue Workshop to promote the use of IPBES products in policymaking! For registration details, please contact your @ipbes.net and @unbiodiversity.bsky.social national focal points.

Le Dialogue pour les pays francophones d’Afrique portant sur le suivi de la biodiversité et le rapportage en appui à la mise en oeuvre du Cadre mondial de la biodiversité #KMGBF se déroule actuellement à Yaoundé avec le soutien de nombreux partenaires: 🔗 www.cbd.int/meetings/NBS...

Collaboration is key to the sustainability of protected & conserved areas in line with #Target3 of the #KMGBF. Our webinar supported by the Japan Biodiversity Fund offers insights on guidance from #IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, and sustainable financial models: 🔗 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

At #COP16Colombia, Parties to the CBD adopted new mechanisms for describing and updating ecologically or biologically significant marine areas #EBSAs. The CBD Secretariat now accepts #EBSAs submissions on a rolling basis. 🔵Learn more: ▶️ cbd.int/marine/ebsas

The Global 🌏Workshop dedicated to the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative #FERI is underway in Seoul, bringing together representatives of governments, international organizations, academia and civil society in a bid to accelerate forest🌲🌳ecosystem restoration: 🔗 www.cbd.int/article/2025...

This week a CBD global workshop hosted by the Korea Forest Service celebrates a decade of achievements under the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative. #FERI supports the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework and #GenerationRestoration: 🔗 www.cbd.int/forest/doc/F...

Lakes play a key role in maintaining biodiversity, offering a habitat for countless species of fish, plants, and wildlife. But lakes are affected by overuse, pollution & climate change. On 27 August join us in marking the 1st edition of #WorldLakeDay: 🔗 www.un.org/en/observanc...

#Target11 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about restoring, maintaining and enhancing nature’s contributions to people. Learn more: 🔗 cbd.int/gbf/targets/11

📢Call for media accreditation 🟢Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice #SBSTTA27 (20-24 Oct) 🟢Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities #SB8j1 (27-30 Oct) ➡️ www.cbd.int/conferences/...

If we can’t live without water, why are we poisoning our rivers? If we can’t live without forests, why are we cutting them down? If we can’t live without soil, why are we stripping it of life? We depend on nature, not the other way around. So why are we pushing our best ally to the brink?

#Target10 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about enhancing biodiversity and sustainability in agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry. Learn more: 🔗 cbd.int/gbf/targets/10

Dr Luthando Dziba, a friend of @unbiodiversity.bsky.social, is the new @ipbes.net Executive Secretary. Congratulations, Luthando! Our long-standing cooperation with @ipbes.net will continue to thrive in support of the Parties' efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

Why is biosafety important? How does it contribute to #PeaceWithNature and #GlobalGoals? 📽️ @unbiodiversity.bsky.social explains how the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol address the safety aspects of biotechnology, and highlights key decisions adopted at #COPMOP11 #COP16Colombia in Cali last year.

Landing the #PlasticsTreaty will take more time, but it remains a critical part of transformative change for #PeaceWithNature. Meanwhile, #Target7 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is a tool to address the impacts of pollution & waste on biodiversity. No time to waste.

“We did not get where we wanted, but people want a deal. This work will not stop, because plastic pollution will not stop.” UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social at the close of the second part of #INC5 in Geneva. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMMe... #PlasticsTreaty

#Target9 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about managing wild species sustainably to benefit people. Learn more: www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/9

J'ai eu l'honneur de m'entretenir avec @valplante.bsky.social, Mairesse de Montréal, ville hôte de @unbiodiversity.bsky.social En 2022, le moment Montréal a permis l'adoption du Cadre mondial de la biodiversité #KMGBF. Les villes et autorités locales jouent un rôle important dans sa mise en œuvre.

"We at @unbiodiversity.bsky.social strive to underpin, support and enable youth contributions, including by advocating for the whole-of-society approach that the implementation of #KMGBF & #GlobalGoals requires." 🟢 #YouthDay statement by @astridschomaker.bsky.social: 🔗 www.cbd.int/article/2025...

#Target8 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about minimizing the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and building resilience. Learn more: 🔗https://cbd.int/gbf/targets/8

🌏 Today 9 August is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples "Efforts to halt & reverse biodiversity loss can benefit from technological progress. But we must always place #IndigenousPeoples’ rights & leadership at the heart of every discussion & action."— @astridschomaker.bsky.social

The theme of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August 2025) is " #IndigenousPeoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures". 🟢The UN global observance: un.org/en/observanc... 📽️Statement by @astridschomaker.bsky.social: cbd.int/article/2025... 📷IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis

#Target7 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about reducing pollution to levels that are not harmful to biodiversity. Learn more: 🔗 www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/7

Wetlands are the wellspring of biodiversity. Yet they are declining at an alarming rate. #WetlandsCOP15 in Victoria Falls, an amazing wetland sanctuary, inspires us to work harder through a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to achieve common goals. 📷 @ramsar.org

We at @unbiodiversity.bsky.social welcome the launch of the Global Wetland Outlook 2025 calling for transformative change and greater cooperation. This constitutes a timely evidence-based call to action with linkages with the race to implement the #KMGBF: www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org

At #WetlandsCOP15 in Zimbabwe, I joined a group of women leaders united in their commitment to #PeaceWithNature and determined to walk the talk on synergy, promoting the synergistic national implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and associated frameworks and goals.

#Target6 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about reducing the introduction of invasive alien species by 50% and minimizing their impact. Learn more about Target 6: 🔗 www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/6

With Harsen Nyambe, Director of Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy, and his team at the African Union Commission, we discussed collaboration for the implementation of the #KMGBF. The planned African Summits on Climate Change and Biodiversity will bolster synergies across the continent.

Honoured to confer with H.E. Girma Amente, Minister of Agriculture of Ethiopia, today in Addis Ababa. We discussed biodiversity initiatives by the Ethiopian government, including the Green Legacy Initiative and the “Conservation Plus” programme--which underpin the implementation of the #KMGBF

In Addis Ababa I opened the African Regional Knowledge Management for Biodiversity workshop. More than 70 participants from 40 countries took part, sharing experiences, identifying needs & co-creating solutions to shore up the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF.

In Addis Ababa I discussed with Matthias Naab, Director, Regional Service Center for Africa, @undp.org's efforts in supporting biodiversity and climate initiatives in Africa and opportunities for collaboration as part of global efforts to accelerate the implementation of the #KMGBF.

Great meeting of minds with the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Antonio Pedro on supporting African countries in integrating biodiversity into economic development, innovative finance instruments & circular economy as part of efforts to implement the #KMGBF.

Thank you Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute (EBI) for your leadership in biodiversity research and conservation in Ethiopia and for an unforgettable visit. We at @unbiodiversity.bsky.social appreciate your efforts in finalizing Ethiopia's #NBSAP, the vehicle of accelerated #KMGBF implementation.

#Target5 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF is about ensuring sustainable, safe and legal harvesting and trade of wild species. Learn more about Target5: 🔗 www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/5

OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥 Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪 Access the full report in English⬇️ https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment