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Kenya has been a party of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) since 1994, has been a party of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety since 2003 and has been a party of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing since 2014.  

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Validation of a Monitoring and Reporting Concept for ABS Indicators under the GBF and NBSAP

Workshop Report: Validation of a Monitoring and Reporting Concept for ABS Indicators under the GBF and NBSAP Date: 22–23 July 2025 Venue: Kyaka Hotel (TBC), Machakos, Kenya Organized by: National Envi...

25 Jul 2025
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Aligning Sectoral Public Policy Instruments in Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry with Kenya’s NBSAP

Workshop :Aligning Sectoral Public Policy Instruments in Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry with Kenya’s NBSAP and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Date: 24th July 2025 Venue: Pullm...

24 Jul 2025
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Unlocking Land Opportunities

Desertification and Drought Day formerly World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed on 17 June to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat desertification. Kenya ra...

16 Jul 2025
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𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝟑𝟎-𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐮

As the world marks the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) under the 2025 theme “Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development”, Kenya has taken a bold step to protect one of its most c...

27 Jun 2025
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Kenya's black rhino population makes remarkable recovery,

Kenya's black rhino population has made a remarkable recovery, growing from just 384 individuals in the late 1980s to the current population of 1,059 black rhinos. This resurgence is largely attribute...

27 May 2025
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from the secretariat - Meeting
First meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

27 Oct 2025
Panama City
from the secretariat - Meeting
Twenty-seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

20 Oct 2025
Panama City
from the secretariat - Notification
Invitation to submit case studies and other information on relevant traditional knowledge, innovations, practices and technology of indigenous peoples and local communities for the global report on collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

31 Jul 2025
from the secretariat - Notification
Invitation to submit relevant information to support the production of the global report on collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

31 Jul 2025
from the secretariat - Notification
Extension of deadline: Submission of views to inform a preliminary review of the procedures and mechanisms on compliance under the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

30 Jul 2025
 

National Targets

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Target 8: Reduce emissions through NbS and EbA for community resilience

By 2030, minimize the impact of climate change and ocean acidification on biodiversity and increase its resilience through mitigation, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction actions, including through nature-based solutions and/or ecosystem-based approaches, by reducing Green House Gases Emissions (GHG) by 32% relative to Business as Usual (BAU) while minimizing negative and fostering positive im...

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1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land12. Responsible Consumption and Production6. Clean Water and Sanitation13. Climate Action2. Zero Hunger
Target 7.1: Pollution reduced, nutrient loss and pesticide risks halved by 2030

Target 7.1: By 2030, pollution from all sources, including from excess nutrients, pesticides and highly hazardous chemicals have been brought to levels that are not harmful to ecosystem functions and services and biodiversity, considering cumulative effects while taking into account food security and livelihoods.

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6. Clean Water and Sanitation2. Zero Hunger12. Responsible Consumption and Production3. Good Health and Well-being15. Life on Land11. Sustainable Cities and Communities14. Life Below Water
Target 4.1:Halt Species Extinction, Protect Genetic Diversity

By 2030, ensure urgent management and policy actions to halt human induced species extinctions including recovery and conservation  for of all known  threatened species, while ensuring their population recovery through appropriate sustainable management practices and conservation strategies embracing in situ and ex situ approaches to significantly reduce extinction risk, as well as to maintain and...

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9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure6. Clean Water and Sanitation15. Life on Land4. Quality Education11. Sustainable Cities and Communities3. Good Health and Well-being12. Responsible Consumption and Production8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
Target 2: Ensure 27.3% of degraded areas are under effective restoration

Ensure that by 2030 at least 27.3% of degraded areas are under effective restoration, in order to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, ecological integrity and connectivity 3.4% of areas of degraded forests 7.7% of areas of degraded Agro-ecosystems 13.4% of areas of degraded rangelands 1.3% of areas of degraded wetlands and water towers 0.03% of areas of degraded marine ecosy...

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15. Life on Land1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water13. Climate Action11. Sustainable Cities and Communities12. Responsible Consumption and Production6. Clean Water and Sanitation17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal
Target 3: 30% of terrestrial and inland water areas, and marine and coastal areas are Effectively Conserved and managed.

Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 percent of terrestrial and inland water areas, and of marine and coastal areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically representative, well-connected and equitably governed systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservat...

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9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land14. Life Below Water13. Climate Action6. Clean Water and Sanitation12. Responsible Consumption and Production2. Zero Hunger
Target 18: Identify and reduce harmful incentives, and promote positive incentives for biodiversity

Identify by 2025, and progressively eliminate, phase out or reform incentives, including harmful subsidies on biodiversity reducing them by at least 10% annually, starting with the most harmful incentives, and promote positive incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

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2. Zero Hunger17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure1. No Poverty10. Reduced Inequality3. Good Health and Well-being15. Life on Land6. Clean Water and Sanitation
Target 19 :Increase amount of resources mobilized for biodiversity in Kenya

byBy 2025, develop a resource mobilization strategy for sustainable finance mechanisms for the conservation of biodiversity, and by 2030, increase resources mobilized by at least 35% per year from all sources, including domestic, international, public, and private resources, in an effective, timely, and easily accessible manner, in accordance with Article 20 of the CBD. Additionally, by 2030, reco...

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12. Responsible Consumption and Production11. Sustainable Cities and Communities9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure6. Clean Water and Sanitation14. Life Below Water17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal15. Life on Land1. No Poverty
Target 11: Nature’s contributions to people is maintained and enhanced

By 2030, restore, maintain and enhance nature’s contributions to people, including ecosystem functions and services, such as the regulation of air, water and climate, soil health, pollination and reduction of disease risk, as well as protection from natural hazards and disasters, through nature-based solutions and/or ecosystem-based approaches for the benefit of all people and nature.

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11. Sustainable Cities and Communities2. Zero Hunger13. Climate Action12. Responsible Consumption and Production15. Life on Land1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water
Target 15: Businesses Assess, Disclose and Reduce Biodiversity-Related Risks and Negative Impacts

By 2030, develop legal, administrative and policy measures including a review of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) regulations and mechanisms, environmental, social and biodiversity safeguards, and others implemented to encourage and enable all businesses, and in particular to ensure that large and transnational companies and financial institutions: (a) Regularly monitor, assess, and transparently ...

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10. Reduced Inequality3. Good Health and Well-being12. Responsible Consumption and Production1. No Poverty6. Clean Water and Sanitation14. Life Below Water11. Sustainable Cities and Communities15. Life on Land
Target 10: Achieve 20% Sustainable Management in Aquaculture, Fisheries, Forestry, and Agriculture by 2030

By 2030, ensure at least 20% (to be reviewed after the baseline assessment) of areas under aquaculture, fisheries, forestry, and agriculture are sustainably managed, including through sustainable use, certification mechanisms, the application of spatial planning, and other biodiversity-friendly and innovative approaches and agro-ecological practices; regenerative agriculture, precision farming, in...

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15. Life on Land2. Zero Hunger14. Life Below Water1. No Poverty11. Sustainable Cities and Communities13. Climate Action6. Clean Water and Sanitation3. Good Health and Well-being
Target 23: Ensure Gender integration in biodiversity approaches and actions.

By 2030, ensure gender equality in the implementation of the Framework through a gender-responsive approach, where all women and girls have equal opportunity and capacity to contribute to the three objectives of the Convention including by recognizing their equal rights and access to land and natural resources and their full, equitable, meaningful and informed participation and leadership at all l...

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12. Responsible Consumption and Production15. Life on Land1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions5. Gender Equality2. Zero Hunger10. Reduced Inequality
Target 13: Ensure fair and equitable sharing of Benefits from Genetic Resources, Digital Sequence Information and Associated Traditional Knowledge

By 2027, develop, review and harmonize laws and policies; establish and strengthen effective institutional and administrative frameworks and by 2030 enhance the fair and equitable sharing of benefits that arise from the utilization of genetic resources, digital sequence information on genetic resources, and associated traditional knowledge, by, capacity-building and technology transfer measures at...

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16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions14. Life Below Water1. No Poverty15. Life on Land10. Reduced Inequality12. Responsible Consumption and Production17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal5. Gender Equality
Target 7.2: By 2030 Achieve responsible Plastic Use

By 2030, move towards a more responsible use of plastics, (through enforcing ban on single use plastic products and extended producer responsibility- EPR) ensuring that where possible products placed on the market are reusable and recyclable, while reducing plastic packaging products by 60%.

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6. Clean Water and Sanitation2. Zero Hunger12. Responsible Consumption and Production3. Good Health and Well-being15. Life on Land11. Sustainable Cities and Communities14. Life Below Water
Target 20: By 2030 Enhanced Capacity-Building, Technology Transfer, and Innovation through National and International Collaboration

By 2030, strengthen capacity-building and development, access to and transfer of technology, and promote innovation through enhanced technical and scientific cooperation at all levels, with emphasis on collaborative efforts both nationally and internationally.

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Target16: Promote sustainable production and consumption practices

Ensure that people are encouraged and enabled to make sustainable consumption choices, including by strengthening supportive policy, legislative or regulatory frameworks, improving education and access to relevant and accurate information and alternatives, and by 2030, equitably reduce the footprint of consumption, including through halving national food waste, significantly reducing overconsumpti...

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11. Sustainable Cities and Communities8. Decent Work and Economic Growth12. Responsible Consumption and Production9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure6. Clean Water and Sanitation4. Quality Education14. Life Below Water3. Good Health and Well-being
Target 22: Ensure inclusive participation in biodiversity related decision-making processes

By 2030, ensure the full, equitable, inclusive, effective and gender-responsive representation and participation in decision-making processes, and access to justice and information related to biodiversity of indigenous peoples and local communities, women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities in conservation efforts while respecting their cultural rights and land ownership t...

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15. Life on Land16. Peace and Justice Strong Institutions5. Gender Equality10. Reduced Inequality6. Clean Water and Sanitation1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
Target 6: By 2030, reduce the establishment of invasive species by 50%

By 2030, reduce the establishment of invasive species by 50% by identifying and managing pathways of the introduction and eradication and/or control, especially in priority areas such as urban spaces, farmlands, forests, protected and conserved areas, rangelands, inland waters, coastal and marine ecosystems

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12. Responsible Consumption and Production1. No Poverty14. Life Below Water6. Clean Water and Sanitation2. Zero Hunger15. Life on Land13. Climate Action11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
Target 17: Strengthen biosafety measures and enhance access to benefits of biotechnology.

By 2030 strengthen capacity for, and implement, biosafety measures as set out in Article 8(g) of the Convention on Biological Diversity and measures for the handling of biotechnology including emerging biotechnologies and distribution of its benefits as set out in Article 19 of the Convention

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14. Life Below Water15. Life on Land17. Partnerships to achieve the Goal13. Climate Action
Target 21: Enhance availability and access to credible data and knowledge to inform biodiversity action.

By 2030, ensure that the best available data, information and knowledge are accessible to decision- makers, practitioners and the public to guide effective and equitable governance, integrated and participatory management of biodiversity, and to strengthen communication, awareness-raising, education, monitoring, research and knowledge management and, also in this context, traditional knowledge, in...

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4. Quality Education2. Zero Hunger8. Decent Work and Economic Growth6. Clean Water and Sanitation10. Reduced Inequality13. Climate Action11. Sustainable Cities and Communities12. Responsible Consumption and Production
Target1: By 2030, Plan and Manage all Areas to reduce Biodiversity Loss

Ensure that by 2030 all areas are under biodiversity inclusive participatory spatial planning and effectively managed, addressing land and sea use change to reduce biodiversity loss while respecting the rights of indigenous people and local communities.

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3. Good Health and Well-being14. Life Below Water6. Clean Water and Sanitation15. Life on Land2. Zero Hunger12. Responsible Consumption and Production13. Climate Action11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
 

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Roots of Change: Community-Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration in Kenya

The mangroves of Lamu and Tana account for over 65% (40,610 ha) of Kenya’s mangrove forests, which cover 61,271 ha. These critical ecosystems have been and are currently under threat mainly from loggi...

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Biodiversity Learning Platform

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, and entered into force on 29 December 1993. It is the first global agreement to cover al...

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African Environmental Health and Pollution Management

The African Environmental Health and Pollution Management Project is a five years Global Environment Facility sixth framework-funded project in five African countries notably; Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,...

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Establishing genetic database for Myanmar’s biodiversity through DNA barcoding technology

Myanmar is rich in biodiversity, and hosting numerous flora and fauna. Myanmar endeavours to sustain biodiversity for sustainable development, as well as for mitigating climate change impact. The bior...

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