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The Regional Ecological Summit 2026 in Astana will bring Central Asian governments, international organizations, business, and civil society together to develop coordinated solutions to climate change, food security, and natural resource management.
The fourth World Biodiversity Forum in Davos will bring together participants across sectors and generations to co-develop biodiversity-positive futures and address the social and cultural drivers of environmental degradation.
The seventh meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Implementation will convene in Nairobi to review progress toward the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ahead of COP 17 in Armenia.
COP 17 of the Convention on Biological Diversity will convene in Yerevan, Armenia, marking a critical milestone for the global review of progress under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The meeting will also include the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety MOP and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing MOP, making it a defining moment for international biodiversity governance ahead of the 2030 deadline.
The regional and sub-regional dialogues of 2025 told a consistent story: Countries are delivering on the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and can accelerate action with the right systems, finance, and partnership support in place.
The CBD Subregional Dialogue in Bahrain highlighted both the urgency and the opportunity for Western Asian countries to strengthen biodiversity monitoring, reporting, and collaboration under the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
The NBSAP Accelerator Partnership met with Mozambique’s Ministry of Economy to explore how tourism can advance national biodiversity targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, with discussions covering community-based tourism, hunting tourism, and the development of bankable project proposals.
Indigenous Peoples’ organizations in the Philippines gathered in Quezon City for a costing and capacity-building workshop to advance implementation of the Indigenous Peoples’ Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, identifying funding gaps within their ancestral domains.
UNEA-7 underscored the urgent need to accelerate country-led, integrated solutions to the triple planetary crisis, underscored the importance of NBSAPs, and provided space for countries like the DRC to mobilise integrated solutions.
The Caribbean CBD Subregional dialogue demonstrated how peer learning, regional coordination, and targeted support can strengthen biodiversity monitoring and reporting systems while laying the groundwork for effective NBSAP implementation ahead of the seventh national report.