The strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted in Nagoya, Japan during COP 10 in 2010 is expected to expire as the decade is already over. This necessitated the recent COP 14 meeting in Egypt to debate on coming up with a design process towards the adoption of the post 2020 global biodiversity framework. In its first meeting, the open ended working group tasked with the responsibility of coming up with an impeccable global biodiversity framework in this era of unprecedented environmental crises and countless biodiversity loss and extinction, had a real daunting task.
First Open Ended Working Group on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
