Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development A/RES/74/221 8. Welcomes the commitments made by the parties at the high-level segment of the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and through the decisions adopted, which support the implementation of the current Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 11 and the development of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, inter alia, to: (a) Accelerating efforts to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, including by implementing the decisions of the Conference of the Parties and the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols, as appropriate, and by providing and mobilizing international and national resources, thereby contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; (b) Supporting the development and implementation of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, building on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the lessons learned from the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a level of ambition and practicality that will facilitate the transformational changes needed to achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, as noted in the conclusions of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice; (c) Promoting, prior to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, voluntary biodiversity contributions by parties and other actors towards achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity; (d) Engaging indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth, civil society, local governments and authorities, academia, the business an d financial sectors and other relevant stakeholders to support action towards the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity and to provide momentum for the implementation of a post -2020 global biodiversity framework; 9. Urges parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to ensure the coherence and complementarity of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework with other existing or upcoming international processes, in particular with regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement 8 and other related processes, frameworks and strategies, and reiterates the invitation to the other multilateral environmental agreements, including biodiversity-related conventions and the Rio conventions, relevant international organizations and their programmes, and other relevant processes to actively participate in the development process for a post-2020 global biodiversity framework; 10. Recalls the invitation to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, in the capacity as Chair of the United Nations Environment Management Group, to facilitate, in collaboration with the members of the Group, the contribution of the United Nations system to the development and implementation of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework; 11. Reaffirms its decision to convene a summit on biodiversity at the level of Heads of State and Government, within existing resources, before the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, in 2020, in order to highlight the urgency of action at the highest levels in support of a post -2020 global biodiversity framework that contributes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and places the global community on a path towards realizing the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, “Living in harmony with nature”; 12. Urges Member States and other potential donors to contribute to the United Nations multi-partner trust fund to support the summit, primarily to support preparations as well as travel and participation by representatives of developing countries, in the event that a country offers to host the summit; 19-22490 7/11