Rapid biodiversity loss is a global crisis. In 2022, 196 countries, including the Nordics, adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Moving from agreement to implementation requires science-based, locally grounded, and transnational collaboration. In 2024, Iceland, Finland, and Denmark launched the Nordic Biodiversity Framework (NBF) to support such synergy. While culturally similar, the countries differ in environment, governance, and EU status, offering valuable learning opportunities. National workshops highlighted shared challenges: unclear definitions, lack of support, limited policy and need for better understanding of the Ecosystem Approach. Despite these barriers, there are efforts ongoing to implement the GBF in these countries, and there is clearly a general increase of awareness of biodiversity within both the public and political spheres.