On 18 April in Prague, Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership, is holding its forum on ‘Knowledge and capacity to facilitate the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’ concluded in December 2022 at the COP15 on the Convention on Biological Diversity.
This forum will bring together researchers and policy makers to identify gaps in the implementation of the ‘30 x 30’ targets of protecting and restoring 30% of land and marine areas by 2030 (see EUROPE 13087/3).
“Only 1% of the EU’s marine areas are now strictly protected. However, according to the Global Framework, at least 30% of the oceans should be partially protected and 10% should be strictly protected”, underlined Frédéric Lemaître from Biodiversa+ on 11 April.
Launched in October 2021 under the Horizon Europe framework programme for research and innovation, Biodiversa+ supports research excellence and promotes the harmonisation of biodiversity monitoring programmes to reverse its decline.
It brings together more than 70 actors from research and environmental policy from 36 European and associated countries, mobilising a budget of more than €800 million over seven years. The forum will launch the newly funded research projects.
The Global Framework has four strategic objectives: conservation, the sustainable use of biodiversity, access to genetic resources and equitable sharing, and implementation. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)