The draft treaty under negotiation contains goals for action that are also the subject of various disciplines of biodiversity research. With their work, researchers at iDiv and other institutions including Leipzig University contribute significantly to the knowledge base that will enable the implementation of these goals. Some of these scientists have written personal statements to the negotiators from their professional point of view, which iDiv will publish daily during the conference at https://twitter.com/idiv and https://www.idiv.de/en/.