biodiversity hotspots

In late 2021, experts from around the world were approached to provide input to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)—the new framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that will guide interventions to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services for the next three decades.

The post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) is the new framework under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that will guide interventions to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services for the next 3 decades. In this article, we discuss the science behind the GBF related to terrestrial ecosystem restoration and conclude by commenting on the state of play of negotiations and what might be expected at the upcoming CBD COP-15 in December 2022.

Governments are negotiating actions intended to halt biodiversity loss and put it on a path to recovery by 2050. Here, we show that bending the curve for biodiversity is possible, but only if actions are implemented urgently and in an integrated manner. Connecting these actions to biodiversity outcomes and tracking prog- ress remain a challenge.