Canada’s 2030 Nature Strategy and the Nature Accountability Bill

2030 Nature Strategy

In 2022, Canada, along with 195 other countries, adopted the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This historic framework lays out a set of global goals and targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and put nature on a path to recovery by 2050.

Canada’s 2030 Nature Strategy charts a path for how Canada will implement the KMGBF domestically. The Government of Canada engaged with provinces, territories, Indigenous groups and stakeholders to develop a Strategy that reflects the diversity of Canadian perspectives and issues. The Strategy establishes a shared vision to address biodiversity loss and builds on existing initiatives in all regions and sectors across the country.

Everyone has a role to play in implementing the KMGBF. Partnerships and collaboration across all sectors will be crucial to making progress. By working together, we can build solutions to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

Nature Accountability Bill

In 2024, Canada introduced the Nature Accountability Bill in Parliament. The Bill will establish an accountability framework for the federal government in fulfilling its KMGBF and related CBD commitments at the federal level. It includes requirements to develop national biodiversity strategies and action plans – like the 2030 Nature Strategy – and to report on their implementation. The Bill also supports collaboration between the Government of Canada and other governments in Canada as well as Indigenous partners in actions to support biodiversity.

Together, the Bill and the 2030 Nature Strategy will provide a coordinated approach in efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.