The adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) in 2022 was a historic step in recognising the vital link between human rights and biodiversity. Parties agreed that the “implementation of the Framework should follow a human rights-based approach, respecting, protecting, promoting and fulfilling human rights” (KMGBF, Section C). 

Shifting from commitment to practice, SBSTTA 27 and SB8j 1 are decisive moments to ensure guidance and decisions across agenda items uphold human rights at their core. Only by doing so can the KMGBF deliver the transformative change urgently needed to reverse biodiversity loss and safeguard the rights of those who most depend on and care for it.

This brief, collaboratively prepared by members of the Human Rights and Biodiversity Working Group, offers key recommendations for Parties and other actors, across key agenda items of the SBSTTA 27 meeting (Panama, October 2025) to further embed a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in the implementation and monitoring of the KMGBF, and in biodiversity governance more broadly.  

>> Read the full brief here << (English)

>> Lea el resumen completo aquí << (Spanish)

List of events related to human rights and biodiversity, co-convened by the HR&BD WG and its members: 

During SBSTTA 27: Side event: Aligning Voices: Multi-Actor Pathways for Just and Equitable Policy Coherence across the Rio Conventions, Thursday 2025.10.23 at 18:15.

During SB8j 1: Side event: Advancing Human Rights-Based Approaches in Target 3 Implementation Wednesday 2025.10.29 at 18:15.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact: humanrightsbiodiversity@gmail.com

2025-10-19