1 minute read / November 7, 2024
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) under the banner “COP of the people”, recently ended, demonstrated encouraging momentum for the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
Several important decisions were taken, and notably, countries agreed on an expanded role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in saving biodiversity and a groundbreaking agreement on the operationalisation of a new global mechanism to share benefits from digital genetic information.
By the end of the COP, 44 countries had submitted revised national biodiversity strategies and action plans and 119 Parties had uploaded their national targets in the online reporting tool, including the European Union. These will be the basis for the first national reports due in 2026.
