UNFF delegates will discuss implementation of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 and their three priorities of reversing the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, increasing the area of protected forests worldwide, and promoting governance frameworks to implement sustainable forest management.

Advancing sustainability solutions to climate challenges faced by hot and arid countries, the Earthna Summit 2025 will explore resilience to water scarcity, harnessing AI for smarter governance, and how the tradition-technology nexus can address food insecurity, among other issues.

Aiming to enhance the functioning of the Treaty’s Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing,  deliberations focused on: the payment structure and rates under the draft revised Standard Material Transfer Agreement; benefit-sharing from digital sequence information/genetic sequence data; and the expansion of the list of crops.