Decision COP 15/33

The Conference of the Parties,

Taking into account the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and other relevant decisions,

1. Notes that the Conference of the Parties will review progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at each of its meetings to 2030;

2. Decides that the development of further guidance for policy development and implementation should support achievement of the goals and targets set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the outcome of the global analysis of information in national biodiversity strategies and action plans, including the national targets, and global review of collective progress in implementation, as well as new information that may become available, including through scientific assessments;

3. Takes note of the preliminary list of issues to be addressed by meetings of the Conference of the Parties during the period 2023–2030 contained in the annex to the present decision;

4. Requests the Executive Secretary, in consultation with the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties, to complete the list of issues to be considered by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting, as specified in the annex, in the light of the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting, to make the list available on the Convention’s website, and to take into account the issues listed when preparing the agendas for relevant meetings under the Convention;

5. Also requests the Executive Secretary to propose specific elements that are aligned with the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as well as other closely related themes, for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its fourth meeting, with a view to completing the list of issues to be considered at the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth meetings of the Conference of the Parties, as suggested in the annex to the present decision;

6. Decides to address, at each of its meetings, standing items consistent with previous decisions, as well as other issues arising from the decisions of the Conference of the Parties in relation to particular programmes of work and cross-cutting issues, and to maintain sufficient flexibility in the multiyear programme of work in order to accommodate emerging issues or opportunities as may be identified by the Conference of the Parties.