In December 2022 the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was internationally concluded. It aims to steer Biodiversity Governance, Policy and Laws towards a vision of living in harmony with nature.
The presentation aims
to provides an overview on the wider political embedding of the GBF,to shows the interrelations and distinctions among the GBF and further related governance settings, andto elaborate the development, novelty and implementation of the GBF Hermeneutic methods are applied such as comparative legal analyses and different types of text interpretation (e.g. historic, wording, rational).
The presentation will present
how during the process of negotiating the GBF its theory of change, mission and structure were modified,how the GBF’s wording changed related to the overall directions (goals, milestones, targets) related to more concrete measures against Biodiversity loss were modified andbased on these modifications, an outline of major legal implementation challenges and perspectives of the GBF, and exemplifies this by the project ALPMEMA.The final negotiations on the GBF levelled the path to finally conclude this new framework. While theory of change and mission of the GBF seem to have during the negotiations received a more varying and less concrete wording for further legal implementation, its overall directions could be considered at the first view more streamlined. The new inclusion of clauses referring to e.g. national priorities during the GBF-implementation will also enchance legal measures that solely aim at reducing biodiversity loss. While an opportunitiy for loss-reversal is exemplified by the ongoing EU co-funded project ALPMEMA.