Canada Pavilion at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15)

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) hosted the Canada Pavilion during COP15. The Canada Pavilion provided an opportunity for Indigenous organizations and representatives, civil society, governments, industry, and other stakeholders to showcase Canadian action and leadership on biodiversity conservation, support ambitious outcomes at COP15, and amplify the voices of underrepresented groups, particularly Indigenous peoples, women and youth.

The Canada Pavilion:

• showcased the breadth and diversity of Canadian biodiversity efforts and successes;
• profiled Canadian leadership that can be scaled up across Canada and the globe;
• advanced the objectives of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity;
• addressed the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework targets, particularly those that are more challenging and less defined;
• addressed the main drivers of biodiversity loss (that is, changing land and sea use; overexploitation of nature; climate change; invasive alien species; and pollution);
• drove ambitious outcomes on the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework and encouraged other Parties to increase ambition, including setting a global biodiversity conservation goal of 30% by 2030;
• strengthened Parties’ implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity through stronger planning, reporting, and review systems that will clearly track our global progress and encourage countries to be accountable to commitments;
• set the stage for ambitious domestic implementation of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework post-COP15;
• advanced ECCC’s priorities and mandate commitments, including:
  • halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, while achieving a full recovery for nature by 2050;
  • conserving 30% of land and waters by 2030;
  • highlighting the important role of Indigenous peoples as a key element of the Global Biodiversity Framework, as stewards of biodiversity;
  • mobilizing resources to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, including changing the way we collectively account for, value and fund nature and biodiversity;
  • amplifying voices of historically underrepresented groups, in particular Indigenous peoples, women, and youth;
  • addressing the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, including by using nature-based climate solutions.