 This is an important year for biodiversity. Negotiations among world leaders and experts continue for the development of the new 10-year Global Biodiversity Framework. This framework will chart the course for nature's recovery over the coming decade and beyond and is considered to be the biodiversity equivalent of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The stakes are high. We continue to lose nature at an unprecedented rate and there is no time to delay in addressing this crisis. The good news is that the first draft of the Global Biodiversity Framework is improved but there are still areas for strengthening. IIED has published a three-part series of negotiator guides. These guides are designed to support negotiators to strengthen key aspects of the framework by providing evidence and research. For example, to embed equity into the framework, to enhance human development considerations and to ensure the foundations of the framework are strong through robust enabling conditions and resource mobilisation and funding efforts. With the negotiations now extended six months because of the pandemic, there is now more time than ever to go even further to strengthening the framework. We call on all negotiators to keep the momentum up so that the framework can deliver outcomes for climate, nature and people over the coming decade.