Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likelihood of the United Kingdom's nature restoration targets, plans and strategies achieving the mission of the 2022 Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.

The UK fully supported the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and has already submitted to the Convention on Biological Diversity National Targets that are fully aligned with the Framework. The National Targets commit the UK to achieving each of the 23 global targets at home. We will publish the full UK National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) in due course.

Biodiversity policy in the UK is devolved, and the four nations of the UK and relevant Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies are working collaboratively to identify a range of strategies and policies at UK and national level to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity. These will be updated as new and revised policies are introduced.

While the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is not legally binding, as a party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UK is fully committed to playing our part in achieving the global goals and targets set out in the framework.