NAIROBI, Kenya—Experts and officials have advanced a wide-ranging topics of recommendations for protecting marine species’ habitat, a global action plan on biodiversity and health, managing modern biotechnology, and implementing and monitoring progress against the 23 targets for 2030 in the UN’s historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, known as ‘The Biodiversity Plan.”
At a time when EBSAs are most needed, this would be key for work under the new world agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction.The goal of the proposal is to unite the knowledge of international biodiversity and health experts to inform a universal approach to avoiding future pandemics and other benefits.New voluntary guidance on assessing gene drive engineering was advanced to strengthen scientific rigor and risk assessment transparency.
Senka Barudanovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, chairman of the SBSTTA Bureau, said: “The work we completed here sets the stage for significant COP 16 decisions on EBSAs, risk assessment, and the monitoring framework for The Biodiversity Plan. The proposed Global Plan of Action on Health will also highlight the environmental dimensions of human, animal and plant health.”
“The discussions have wide-reaching implications on biosafety, biotechnology, biodiversity in our oceans, and new global work on health of people, plants and animals.”