"In a few months Parties will come together to craft and adopt the Global Biodiversity Framework that will ignite and guide the transformation we need to safeguard the health of our planet and our future.

If anything, the current crisis has brought us closer together. It taught us that we can be connected even if miles apart. That we can work and collaborate from our homes while maintaining productivity and taking care of loved ones. It showed us that we are much more alike than we even thought. It laid our vulnerabilities bare but, most of all, it shed a light on how we can overcome anything if we work together.

The time to act is now. We need our best people to find common solutions to our problems by re-imagining business models, re-designing value chains, addressing current practices flaws and reach the right level of ambition to reverse nature loss by crafting innovative and bold solutions that are compatible with our planetary boundaries while securing our livelihoods, our prosperity and our health."

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity