United Nations Biodiversity Summit to be held in Geneva

After a two-year delay, negotiators from more than 190 countries will meet in Geneva on Monday for a critical debate on global strategies to stop biodiversity loss.

This is the last time countries will discuss an agreement known as the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) since 2020 before the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is called the biodiversity of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Scientists have repeatedly warned about the dangerous decline of biodiversity. According to a global biodiversity assessment done in 2019, the world's nature is declining at an unprecedented rate in human history, species extinction is accelerating, and people around the world can face a serious impact of all this. It reported that about one million species face extinction. 

Originally scheduled for  January 1228 in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between two subsidiary bodies of the United Nations on biodiversity and an open working group tasked with developing a global biodiversity framework for 2020 and beyond that will continue until March 29th.