15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15): a new Strategic Plan to combat the loss of Biodiversity
Two years late, the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be held this year in Kunming-China, the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol of Cartagena on Biosafety (COP-MOP10) and the 4th meeting of the Conference of the Parties which serves as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya-ABS Protocol (COP-MOP4).
These meetings aim to define the new strategic plan of the Convention and the adoption of a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (Post-2020 GBF) which establishes the objectives to be achieved by 2050.
The meetings were supposed to take place in 2020, but have been postponed due to the COPVID-19 pandemic; among the preparatory meetings that took place in 2021 it is useful to remember: the first session of the 3rd meeting of the Open Ended Working Group, in which the first Post-2020 GBF version and the first part of COP15, COP-MOP10, were discussed . In addition, the COP4 which took place online and in presence in Kunming, from 1 to 15 October 2021, in which Ministers of the environment (or heads of delegation present in China) present signed the Kunming Declaration: "Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth ”which represents the commitment of the countries signing the Convention for the next few years.
The discussions and the results of the first session of the OEWG3 are contained in the Report prepared for the topics of competence of the ISPRA experts who participated in the meetings.
The next preparation meetings for the COP and COp-MOP will be held in Geneva from 13 to 29 March 2022 (https://www.cbd.int/meetings/).