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196 countries agreed in 2022 to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) a historic deal for nature and a breakthrough for conserving and restoring biodiversity, ensuring its sustainable use.

Despite progress biodiversity loss continues at an unprecedented rate due to human destruction of ecosystems, threatening food security, climate resilience, and access to clean air, water, and soil.

With urgent action needed in this decade, the EU is committed to the full and swift implementation of the KMGBF.

To further support the implementation of the KMGBF, the European Commission, via its Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD), applied to host a subregional Technical and Scientific Cooperation support centre (TSCC) following the new cooperation mechanism established at COP15 in its decision 15/8.

The overall goal of the mechanism is to promote and facilitate, on a demand-driven basis, technical and scientific cooperation and technology transfer among Parties, and enable Parties and relevant organisations to effectively utilise science, technology and innovation for implementation of the KMGBF.

Following, a selection process, the KCBD has been appointed to host and coordinate a European TSCC, in partnership with the Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN Med) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS).

The TSCC provides a "one-stop service centre” for Parties to biodiversity-related conventions, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth organisations, and other relevant stakeholders to access technical and scientific knowledge, expertise, tools and other resources, taking into account the science, technology and innovation capability gaps identified by Parties, especially developing country Parties.

More details about the TSCCs in general can be found on the CBD website, and for the European TSCC in the following leaflet.

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