Gov’t Calls for Action on International Day for Biodiversity

The Ministry of Climate Change, Environment, and Energy outlined their goal to make transportation environmentally friendly, sustainable, and economically conscious in their address on International Day for Biodiversity.

This year’s theme for the International Day for Biodiversity is a call to action to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, known as the Biodiversity Plan.

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This ambitious plan aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, necessitating a society-wide approach.

Governments worldwide adopted the Biodiversity Plan at COP 15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). With the plan now in place, the focus shifts to its implementation. A critical first step involves aligning national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) with the Biodiversity Plan. 

These revised NBSAPs will outline how each country intends to implement the plan and detail the specific measures to be taken at the national level.

NBSAPs are vital as they will convert the global Biodiversity Plan and its 23 targets into actionable national laws, regulations, and measures. 

This will drive progress towards the plan’s four overarching goals: protecting and restoring biodiversity, fostering prosperity with nature, ensuring fair benefit-sharing, and promoting investment and collaboration.

The Ministry also emphasised that while governments are accountable for implementing the Biodiversity Plan, citizens and civil society have crucial roles to play.