#Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

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Biodiversity connects us all; But what is it?

Biodiversity is the heartbeat, the life, of planet earth; Learn more on how you can be Part Of The Plan with the Biodiversity Plan goals & targets

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Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Acting Executive Secretary Message for World Wildlife Day 2024.

Executive Secretary, Mr David Cooper of the Convention on Biological Diversity on World Wildlife Day 2024.

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Statement by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2023.

Statement by Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper EN | video statement

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CALI, Colombia (AP) — After two weeks of negotiations, delegates on Saturday agreed at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future decisions on nature conservation, an important development that builds on a growing movement to recognize the role of Indigenous peoples in protecting land and helping combat climate change.

The delegates also agreed to oblige major corporations to share the financial benefits of research when using natural genetic resources.

Indigenous delegations erupted into cheers and tears after the historic decision to create the subsidiary body was announced. It recognizes and protects the traditional knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples and local communities for the benefit of global and national biodiversity management, said Sushil Raj, Executive Director of the Rights and Communities Global Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

“It strengthens representation, coordination, inclusive decision making, and creates a space for dialogue with parties to the COP,” Raj told The Associated Press, referring to the formal name of the gathering, Conference of Parties.

Negotiators had struggled to find common ground on some key issues in the final week but came to a consensus after talks went late into Friday.

The COP16 summit, hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 accord in Montreal, which included 23 measures to save Earth’s plant and animal life, including putting 30 percent of the planet and 30 percent of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030.

A measure to recognize the importance of the role of people of African descent in the protection of nature was also adopted in Cali.

The Indigenous body will be formed by two co-chairs elected by COP: one nominated by U.N. parties of the regional group, and the other nominated by representatives of Indigenous peoples and local communities, the AP saw in the final document.

At least one of the co-chairs will be selected from a developing country, taking into account gender balance, the document said.

“With this decision, the value of the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and local communities is recognized, and a 26-year-old historical debt in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is settled,” Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister and COP16 president, posted on social media platform X shortly after the announcement.

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COP16 creates body to support indigenous peoples, quilombolas

An unprecedented decision at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, last weekend secured the participation of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and local communities in the negotiating framework of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Nearly 200 countries endorsed the creation of a new global advisory body to include these communities in the decision-making process.

“We have made a historic, unprecedented decision that finally brings Afro-descendant communities out of invisibility. These communities, with their customs, play a vital role in preserving biodiversity and nature—protecting forests, rivers, and the very resources we rely on,” stated Maria Angélica Ikeda, director of the Environment Department at Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Every two years, signatory countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to make global decisions on biodiversity at the United Nations Conference of the Parties. This year, the 16th edition of the conference was held in Cali, Colombia.

Established during the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (ECO92) in Rio de Janeiro, the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty focused on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, as well as the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from genetic resources.

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Excerpt from this story from Vox:

The United States is, by many measures, a global environmental leader, barring four years under former President Donald Trump. It has some of the strongest environmental laws in the world, such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. The country invests billions of dollars to fight climate change and wildlife declines. It also produces much of the world’s leading environmental research.

The current administration, led by President Joe Biden, prides itself on these environmental achievements.

That’s what makes this so surprising: The US is the only nation in the world, other than the Vatican, that hasn’t joined the most important global treaty to conserve nature. The treaty, known as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), is designed to safeguard Earth’s life support systems, its animals, and ecosystems. And it’s not just some inconsequential agreement: It’s the best shot the world has at staving off ecological collapse.

This week, the Convention is meeting in Cali, Colombia, for an event known as COP16. Its members — governments from more than 190 countries — are negotiating plans for protecting forests and oceans, including how to raise around $700 billion for conservation. Critically, it’s the first meeting under the Convention since 2022, when its members agreed to a historic deal to stop biodiversity loss, known as the Global Biodiversity Framework. The framework includes 23 targets to reach by 2030, including conserving at least 30 percent of all land and ocean.

The US does have a presence at COP16. The country sent more than three dozen federal officials from the State Department, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), and other divisions. And these representatives can influence the negotiations, two senior government officials told Vox.

As non-members to the Convention, that influence has a clear limit. The US can’t formally participate in negotiations or object to decisions at COP16. Those decisions could be administrative — such as where COP17 will take place — or relate to, say, what big drug companies should pay for using the DNA of wild organisms. The US is also noticeably absent from public discussions among environmental ministers that anchor COP16.

Dozens of countries signed the agreement then and there, including the UK, China, and Canada. But the US — then under President George H.W. Bush — was notably not one of them. And it largely came down to politics: It was an election year that pitted Bush against then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, and a number of senators in Bush’s party opposed signing the treaty, citing a wide range of concerns.

Among them was a fear that US biotech companies would have to share their intellectual property related to genetics with other countries. There were also widespread concerns that the US would be responsible for helping poorer nations — financially and otherwise — protect their natural resources and that the agreement would put more environmental regulations in place in the US. (At the time, there was already pushback among the timber industry and property rights groups on existing environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act.)

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Ten principles that underpin ecosystem restoration.

Towards this end, UN Decade partners engaged in a multi-stage process to develop principles for ecosystem restoration. The process began with a synthesis of published principles for distinct types of restorative activities. The synthesis was then used during an expert consultation process, to identify priority themes and to inform an initial, draft set of principles. These were widely shared through an online global consultation process; feedback from the consultation informed the development of the final principles presented here. The principles are broadly based on the Ecosystem Approach and the Short-Term Action Plan for Ecosystem Restoration (STAPER), both adopted by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as well as the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Principles for Nature-Based Solutions,Principles for Ecosystem-Based Approaches, Principles for a Landscape Approach, Principles for Forest and Landscape Restoration,the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)’s International Principles and Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration, the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)´s Rewilding Principles, and FAO´s Principles and Approaches for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, Agroecology, Sustainable Land Management and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries. The ten principles for ecosystem restoration include a first principle that orients restoration in the context of the UN Decade, followed by nine best-practice principles. These best-practice principles detail the essential tenets of ecosystem restoration that should be followed to maximize net gain for native biodiversity, ecosystem health and integrity, and human health and well-being, across all biomes, sectors and regions. The principles are complementary and should, therefore, be read and considered altogether. Regardless of the type of land ownership and the types of stakeholders engaged, these principles can improve restoration outcomes for all types of projects, programmes and initiatives. As an overarching guideline, it is important to note that while ecosystem restoration and other nature based solutions are essential for, inter alia, climate change mitigation, biodiversity protection and land degradation neutrality, restoration is not a substitute solution for conservation, nor for a rapid and deep decarbonization of the world’s economy. As such, investments in restoration in the context of climate action must be based on sound science-based targets and a clear pathway towards net zero emissions. Ecosystem restoration and the sound stewardship of nature can only be successful, in the long term, in the context of a wider socio-economic transition towards a nature-positive economy, by decoupling economic growth from unsustainable use of natural resources, and detoxifying and decarbonizing economic activity.

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COP16, la visión mercantilista de la naturaleza de países como Argentina, Brasil, Arabia Saudita o Canadá

Por Jorge C.A. La Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), es la cumbre de biodiversidad más importante a nivel mundial. A menudo se la considera … COP16, la visión mercantilista de la naturaleza de países como Argentina, Brasil, Arabia Saudita o Canadá

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India release updated National Biodiveristy Strategy & Action Plan at COP 16, CBD

*India at UN Biodiversity Conference COP 16, Cali, California, USA Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh, released India’s updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), at the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The document was released during a special event…

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Inspire global actions towards the International Day for Biological Diversity 2023 on May 22nd.

Get the International Day of Biodiversity 2023 communication and campaign materials!

22 May, The International Day for Biological Diversity has gained global prominence through the efforts of the United Nations, governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, non-governmental organizations and concerned individuals. Each has highlighted their innovative solutions to the biodiversity crisis to the forefront of global conversations on sustainable development.

Although every Biodiversity Day carries its own special significance, this year’s global celebrations bring with it a renewed sense of hope with the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP 15.

United Nations Biodiversity

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Cop 16 Biodiversity, Cali

The Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 16) will be held in Cali, Colombia from 21 October – 1 November 2024. Under the theme Peace With Nature, this will be the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the  Kunming-Montreal Globalists Biodiversity Frameworkat COP 15 in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada. Parties to the…

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Unified action needed on biodiversity and climate change

October 21, 2024 – Press releases An adult female leopard resting in a tree in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. Photo: Donal Boyd / © IFAW What: UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16)  When: 21 October- 1 November 2024  Where: Cali, Colombia As global leaders and environmental experts gather for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological…