A risky yet ambitious era for global biodiversity With the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global
Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in December 2022, the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) pledged the world’s most ambitious conservation commitments yet. Adopted by 95% of the 196 Parties to Convention, the GBF was dubbed as a “historic package of measures deemed critical to addressing the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystems” (CBD, 2022).
