The objective of this report is to analyse, in response to decision MC-4/12, how the implementation of the Minamata Convention can contribute to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and to identify opportunities for coherent and mutually supportive implementation to generate co-benefits for the GBF and the Minamata Convention.
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (the “GBF”) was adopted by the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (“CBD”), at its fifteenth meeting (COP 15), which was held in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada. The GBF sets out an ambitious pathway to galvanize urgent and transformative action by Governments, and subnational and local authorities, with the involvement of all of society, to reach the global vision of a world living in harmony with nature by 2050 where “biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people”.
