Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework advances protection of marine biodiversity

by the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
August 11, 2025

In 2022, numerous countries signed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) with the goal of halting and reversing biodiversity loss. Among other things, the framework sets out various targets to be implemented by the signatory states in their national legislation. A core component is the commitment to put at least 30 percent of the world’s land and oceans areas under protection by 2030. In the area of marine biodiversity, an international team of scientists led by Dr Jan-Claas Dajka from the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and Anne Eilrich from Kiel University, Germany, concludes that these new targets represent a considerable improvement on the Aichi Targets adopted in 2010. In a study published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the team reports that the updated targets address the inherent complexity of biodiversity well, thus reducing the risk of missing critical changes in marine biodiversity.

Keep reading (in German): https://uol.de/pressemitteilungen/2025/112

Read the Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.70000