The Convention on Biological Diversity is a global treaty to protect biodiversity. Nearly every country in the world is a Party to the treaty.

At its December meeting, called CoP15 (that’s short for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties), the “post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework” or “Paris Agreement for Nature” will be adopted. CoP15 is critical for nature.

Every decade, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity come together to create a framework to guide and galvanize conservation under the treaty for the coming 10 years. The new framework being negotiated, known as “the post-2020 global biodiversity framework,” aims to achieve the vision of living in harmony with nature by 2050. It will be adopted at CoP15 in late 2022.

We need global action to combat extinction. That starts with world leaders choosing the survival of wild plants and animals over short-sighted, profit-driven activities threatening the fabric of life.

The ongoing extinction crisis is unacceptable. A recent study estimated that for every three species alive today, one could vanish forever by 2100.

UN scientists predict we’re on track to lose one million species forever, many in the coming decades. These species provide our planetary life-support systems, including food pollination, water purification, carbon sequestration and disease regulation. Human activities are driving species loss, meaning extinction is a choice. This year we must choose to stop it.

Choose to Stop Extinction. Sign the petition and join the call to make this the year we commit to stop human-caused extinctions. The future of life on Earth depends on us.