During 2019 G7 Leaders' Summit, all G7 States, as well as Australia, Chile, India and South Africa, announced that they will sign the Metz Charter on Biodiversity informed by the Global Assessment

Description of Impact(s) (English Only) During the 2019 G7 Leaders' Summit in Biarritz, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that all G7 member States will sign the Metz Charter on Biodiversity, as well as Australia, Chile, India and South Africa. Macron said that this G7 Biodiversity Charter is the “result of IPBES and shows the international community is committed to biodiversity.” The Metz Charter officially welcomes the IPBES Global Assessment and commits to addressing the main pressures on biodiversity “as informed by the best available science and knowledge, including the thematic, regional and global assessments by the IPBES.” Its three central commitments are to accelerate and intensify efforts to halt biodiversity loss, encourage the engagement of other actors and stakeholders and support the development and implementation of post-2020 global biodiversity framework.