Adopted on the last day of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada last December 2022, this is a landmark agreement to guide global action on nature through to 2030. The GBF aims to address biodiversity loss, restore ecosystems and protect indigenous rights. The plan includes concrete measures to halt and reverse nature loss, including putting 30 per cent of the planet and 30 per cent of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030.

The GBF consists of four(4) overarching global goals with 23 targets to be achieved by 2030. read more