The global biodiversity community is taking important strides to craft a new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (post-2020 GBF) at the upcoming 15^th Conference of the Parties (COP15) slated to take place in October 2021. Given the importance of the contributions of non-state and subnational actors in contributing to the success of the new framework, which requires a collective and whole-of-society approach, the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency organised a Webinar on 17^th June 2021 jointly with the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability based in Tokyo and Wageningen University centred in the Netherlands. Johan Meijer from PBL gave a presentation on the theme: “Seizing the Landscape Opportunity to Catalyse Transformative Biodiversity Governance.” The presentation was followed by reflections from a panel of experts and interactive discussions amongst participants.  John Ajjugo from HoA-REC&N, one of the panellists, reflected on HoA-REC&N’s regional experience with community engagement through landscape their initiative, which provides a great platform to articulate local perspective of biodiversity policy.  John highlighted how landscape approaches are a good catalyst for building local agency and involvement of non-state actors in the implementation and success of the Post-2020 GBF, bringing to bare the social ecological perspective, and going beyond focusing mainly on protected areas. Catalina Santamaria from the Secretariat of the CBD and Suneetha M. Subramanian, UNU-IAS were members of the panel, in addition to the attendees drawn from diverse work backgrounds engaged in various national, regional and global environmental policy related and hands-on issues across the globe.