New target: Gender

Scope of the target

It is of most importance from a perspective of human rights that the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is gender just and gender transformative.

Parties to the CBD have also agreed that the GBF will be gender transformative, and the commitment is reiterated in the draft Gender Action Plan that will be part of the GBF. Only such a specific target will ensure the generation of specific policy support and institutional capacity to ensure the GBF is built on the rights, role, needs and aspirations of women in all their diversity.