IFAD at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15

07 - 19 December 2022

The governing body of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will have its 15th meeting of Conference of the Parties (COP15) to approve the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The framework sets out an ambitious plan to guide global action for conserving and protecting biodiversity over the coming decade, ensuring that nations are working towards the CBD’s vision of “living in harmony in nature” by 2050.

An estimated 80 percent of the needs of the world’s poor are derived from biological resources. With one million species threatened with extinction, this increasing biodiversity loss is a major threat to smallholders and their communities who rely directly on local biodiversity and the ecosystem system to go about their daily lives.