G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial Meeting- July 26-28, 2023

"This G20 meeting comes at the halfway point to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We are seriously off-track in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and we know that the ongoing loss of biodiversity accentuates inequality and jeopardizes further progress. 

Consequently, alongside climate action and efforts to combat land degradation, pollution and waste, we must halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity. Last December, in Montreal, the world community came together and adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework with a mission to do just that. This was a major success for multilateralism. I would like to acknowledge in that regard the efforts of all G20 countries, and China and Canada, in particular. 

The G20 and its members must now play a leading role to build upon the success of Montreal and ensure that we move from agreement to action." 

-- David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of  the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

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Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Targets

G20 Environment and Climate Ministers' Meeting- Outcome Document and Chair's Summary