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| | | HISTORIC AGREEMENT FOR NATURE AND PEOPLE |
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"After 4 years of hard work, we’ve now reached the end of the journey. We have before us the fruit of our work. A package that can guide us to halt and reverse biodiversity loss for the benefit of all people." Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology & Environment of China and COP15 President. |
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Four years after the start of negotiations, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was finally adopted on Monday 18th of December 2022 in Montreal. Close to 20.000 delegates worked tirelessly over more than 2 weeks. The agreement contains 23 targets aimed at reversing and halting biodiversity loss, including a pledge to protect 30% of land and oceans by 2030. The framework's targets include also ambitious targets to cut global food waste an reduce excess nutrients and the overall risk of pesticide and highly hazardous chemical use. $200 billion per year in domestic and international biodiversity-related funding from all sources – public and private should be mobilized. More information here. |
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| | | COP15 AT THE CORE OF OUR PROJECT |
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"Our project leaves CBD COP15 happy to have supported the process leading to the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework by enabling different actors to find spaces of reflection and dialogue. We came from UNFCCC COP27 with high hopes for this conference and now we leave highly motivated to promote and trigger transformative actions for the implementation of this framework."
Hugo Rivera Mendoza, team leader of the Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework - EU Support project. |
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Watch this video to discover how, since 2018, our project has been facilitating the prompt adoption and effective implementation of a transformative global biodiversity framework in our partner countries and internationally. |
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| In Montreal, our project reached out to delegates and multi-stakeholders via a large variety of side events and activities engaging a large range of actors. Read more here. |
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Offering a space for dialogues and opportunities at COP15! Our joint stand with the BIODEV project, hosted insightful discussions attended by more than 60 experts and non-state actors from different sectors.
Twice a day, representatives of NGOs, youth, science organizations, the business sector, cities and sub-national governments, and government negotiators discussed transformative actions aimed at ensuring the effective and prompt implementation of a transformative Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Parallel to the negotiations, these dialogues offered a space to discuss the outcomes of the many forums and summits happening at COP15 and to explore potential collaborations for the framework's implementation. More information here. |
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| | | WALKING THE TALK TOWARDS A TRANSFORMATIVE GBF |
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At the beginning of COP15 on December 7, this side event gave panelists the opportunity to provide reflections and proposals to the still not conclusive targets in view of their prompt and effective implementation and to share their impression on latest progress towards a transformative agreement in Montreal.
High-level experts, such as Kobie Brand, Aurélie Godefroy, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, Gavin Edwards, Michael Ofosuhene-Wise, Eshadi Mendis, Jessica Micklem-Kolenic, Paula Pinto Zambrano and Prasanna Kumar were present to raise the voices of subnational and local governments and non-state actors at COP15. Learn more here. |
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| | | LESSONS LEARNED FROM LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARRIBEAN IN AN ECLAC EVENT |
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In 2020, as part as our collaboration with ECLAC and WWF International, we supported two axes of action in LAC region countries to: (1) Strengthen regional processes involving all stakeholders and sectors for the identification, analysis and replication of good practices; and (2) Foster capacities of LAC countries to trigger the mainstreaming of biological diversity and innovative governance.
Two years later, COP15 gave us the opportunity to share at a side-event the main lessons learned of a study prepared by the Commission on mainstreaming and inclusive governance in the region, in a dialogue with African representatives mobilized by the BIODEV2030 project. More here. |
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| | | BIODIVERSITY AND ECONOMY: WHAT FUTURE FOR THIS DUO IN THE KUNMING-MONTREAL GBF? |
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At this event, experts demonstrated how to help Francophone Parties (40) to integrate nature into their economic decisions, involving the private sector for people and nature.
Francophonie is indeed present in several biodiversity hotspots, in more than 250 terrestrial ecoregions and 70 marine ecoregions. With 80 guests in the audience, this side event was moderated by Sylvie GILLET, Orée Director of Development and Biodiversity. At the end of the session, Francophone Parties reflected on strategic orientations for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Learn more here. |
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| | | CITIES WITH NATURE, THE PARTNERSHIP PLATFORM FOR SUBNATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (SNLG) |
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During this side event organized by ICLEI, sCBD, Blueflag/FEE, AIPH, IUCN, UNECE and CC35, our project presented the outcomes of its support to ICLEI from January 2020 to July 2021, during which ICLEI and many partners, such as the Scottish Government, launched the Edinburgh Process and successfully promoted a decision at COP15 for subnational and local governments .
High level speakers emphasized the crucial role of CitiesWithNature in the negotiations process. More information here.
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| | | HIGH-LEVEL EVENT OF THE UN REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMISSIONS (REC) |
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At the CBD COP15 in Montreal, we supported a high-level event of the REC organised under the leadership of UNECE. During the event, the five Regional Commissions expressed their support to the implementation of the Kunming-Montréall Global Biodiversity Framework, to achieve a global goal: save biodiversity on Earth by implementing SDG 14 and SDG 15.
Moderated by Femi Oke, Expertise France’s CEO Jérémie Pellet addressed the audience to stress out the importance of the Regional Economic Commissions for the Kunming-Montreal Framework and the project’s support to defining their contribution to its implementation. More information here. |
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| | | SCIENCE-BASED ASSESSMENTS AND INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE FOR MAINSTREAMING AT RIO PAVILION |
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The session showcased how the assessment of threats to biodiversity conducted in 16 countries within the BIODEV2030 project was only possible with a science-based approach involving a multi-stakeholders dialogue for mainstreaming biodiversity, showing also a similar experience in Costa Rica supported by the Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework-EU support project.
A second segment, based on experiences made by different stakeholders within the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework-EU Support project since 2018, showed how only the integration of the perspectives, experiences and knowledge of all stakeholders can lead to success when it comes to mainstreaming biodiversity. More information here. |
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| | | FIFTH SCIENCE-POLICY FORUM FOR BIODIVERSITY AND EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE |
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The event provided a space for scientists, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and make recommendations on how science, technology and innovation could contribute to the effective implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework-EU Support project co-led the session on "Production & consumption: Public policies & private sector". The event explored the feasibility of proposed targets 15 and 16, and also several aspects that need to be considered when promoting zero deforestation supply chains and commodity standards. More information here. |
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| | | A BIG THANKS TO ALL OUR PARTNERS WHO MADE THIS HISTORIC MOMENT POSSIBLE! |
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This is funded by the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework-EU Support project and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. |
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