The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat on 12 July 2021 released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people.
The GBF has been prepared in time for the third meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (OEWG), taking into account two previous meetings of the OEWG in 2020, the virtual meetings of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body in Implementation, as well as the advice from thematic consultations. The framework will be supported by three additional documents: (a) a monitoring framework with headline indicators, (b) a glossary with a definition of terms used in the framework, and (c) supporting technical information on each draft goal and target.