Around 200 nations attended the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal at the end of December 2022.The event boasted around 16,000 participants from governments, UN and international organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs), non-governmental organizations, academia, and the private sector. The conference resulted in the adoption of a package of decisions aimed at halting the biodiversity crisis and changing our current trajectory of habitat loss and global warming. The biggest success of the conference was the adoption of the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” -GBF-.A framework that will be the roadmap for all countries to protect and restore nature, and use it sustainably with four clear goals and 23 targets for achievement by 2030.The Alliance for Science (AfS) sent a delegation to Montreal to support the negotiations on the topic of biotechnology at COP15, because we seek a future where science and