Advancing integrated governance for health through national biodiversity strategies and action plans.

In 2022, 196 government parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to update and redesign their national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) by the end of 2024. This process offers an opportunity to influence the implementation of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework and to shape how countries frame and address biodiversity–health interlinkages for the next decade. 1 Willetts L Comeau L Vora NM et al. Health in global biodiversity governance: what is next?. Lancet. 2023; 401: 533-536 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (2) Google Scholar Historically, NBSAPs have not drawn on available health expertise in their implementation. This is the time to prioritise fundamental gaps in the knowledge-to-policy interface and to improve policy coordination to advance systems-level, holistic health approaches to implementation. We propose recommendations for aligning NBSAPs to optimise outcomes for biodiversity and health.