RT by @SfEP: February has been an eventful month #ForOurPlanet with:
♻️ the 1st Ecodesign Forum
🌍 #COP16Colombia pt.2
🇸🇪 Youth Policy Dialogue
📦 the Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation entering into force
...and more!
Learn more & discover what's yet to come 👉 https://europa.eu/!RpxTj7
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🐒 This week negotiations from #COP16Colombia concluded in Rome, with key decisions to drive the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework being discussed.
Topics included resource mobilization, the GBF monitoring framework, and financial mechanisms for implementing proposed policies.🌎
Read more about the decisions and outcomes here: 🔗https://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2025/pr-2025-02-27-cop16-en.pdf
📸Pam Chasek
RT by @EU_ENV: Rome will host #COP16Colombia for the #ResumedSessions from 25-27 February 2025 at @FAO Headquarters.
Together, nations will tackle critical issues like resource mobilization and #KMGBF monitoring, moving closer to #PeaceWithNature.
🔗https://www.cbd.int/conferences/2024
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An important point pithily made... But why do I feel the CoP ain't gonna bother?
Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10635
#COP16Colombia #biodiversity #savannas #grasslands #forests #conservation #climatechange
RT by @EU_ENV: May 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣ bring a surge of action to implement the @GlobalGoalsUN and the Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF.
#COP16Colombia will soon reconvene in Rome to address crucial issues for #KMGBF implementation. But the needed acceleration can begin today: https://bit.ly/49MN5u1
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In a late plenary on 18 December 2022, COP 15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). That historic moment in snow-clad Montreal echoed another triumph of multilateralism in the French capital five years prior: the adoption of the Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The KMGBF is to biodiversity loss what the Paris Agreement is to climate change: a universal masterplan to address an existential challenge. Both demand bold action and require a much swifter pace of implementation. In the last two years, Parties to the CBD took encouraging steps towards implementing what they adopted in Montreal. To date, 119 countries submitted national targets aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework, translating the global targets of the KMGBF into targets of their own and considering national circumstances, priorities and socioeconomic conditions. Additionally, 44 Parties submitted National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs), the policy documents that articulate how the national biodiversity targets aligned with the KMGBF will be achieved. Eventually, all Parties are expected to submit updated or revised NBSAPs, identifying the financial resources and capacity needs that are required for the implementation of the national targets that they contain. It is essential that all Parties that have not yet done so, submit updated or revised NBSAPs as soon as possible. Success requires the timely implementation of ambitious NBSAPs. The expectation is that they will aggregate and deliver progress on a planetary scale towards the 23 global targets of the KMGBF by 2030. This would set the world on a path to attain four long-term goals –also adopted in Montreal two years ago--by 2050: Protect and restore nature; Prosper with nature; Share its benefits fairly; and invest in and collaborate for nature. These goals are the pillars of the vision of life in harmony with nature: the promise that the adoption of the KMGBF brought to the world. At COP 16 in Cali, Colombia, Parties to the CBD acknowledged the need for accelerated implementation. Before COP 16 was suspended for absence of quorum, H.E. Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia and COP President, gavelled significant decisions into adoption. History was made when Parties adopted a decision operationalizing the multilateral mechanism on benefit-sharing from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, including a global fund that they branded as “The Cali Fund”. Another monumental decision pertains to the establishment of a permanent subsidiary body dedicated to Article 8(j) of the Convention, which will elevate the level of participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in the functioning of the CBD. Agreement on Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) will help with efforts to identify the most critical and vulnerable parts of the ocean. These bring major wins for biodiversity and those who protect it with benefits sweeping across the 23 targets of the KMGBF. (Learn more about what COP 16 achieved in Cali.) Progress is being made, albeit a step change remains necessary. The second anniversary of the KMGBF is a time to celebrate achievements but also to accelerate implementation. As negotiations advance, including in the resumed COP 16 session in Rome in early 2025 Parties can take immediate steps in at least three priority areas: Fostering broad participation and synergies By activating a whole-of-society approach to implementation and bringing down silos that have hampered action, countries can unlock and leverage all available resources, including domestic public and private finance; citizen participation in, and uptake of, policies; behavioural change; and innovation. Through the exercise of their mandates, parliaments and sub-national governments can play a decisive role in advancing national biodiversity action. A whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach will ensure that national biodiversity targets are on par with the unprecedented global ambition of the KMGBF. Countries can also take steps in removing institutional silos separating the streams of national implementation of the various Multilateral Environmental Agreements. On synergies, small steps can go a long way. More can be done at the national level to connect the implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Land Degradation Neutrality targets. The Secretariats of the three Rio Conventions can play an important role in supporting this. Bringing about a surge in national implementation Immediate, no-regret national steps can deliver considerable progress against the 23 targets of the KMGBF. Target 18 is a case in point: two years after the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework, incentives that go to economic activities harming biodiversity must be addressed as a matter of priority. In addition, the introduction of nationally appropriate frameworks for disclosures on nature dependencies and impacts can also catalyse and leverage the essential contributions of businesses and financial institutions, in line with Target 15. Through initiatives such as the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership and by engaging with the recently designated sub-regional support centres, Parties can also hone capacity for the effective delivery of their national targets aligned with the KMGBF as a whole. Strengthening national monitoring systems Tracking progress against the targets is vital. Robust national monitoring systems constitute a prerequisite for the effective implementation of the KMGBF. Countries should prioritize the set-up of systems capable of harvesting quality-assured data. That will be a judicious investment, because Parties are expected to submit mandatory national reports under the CBD by February 2026. These national reports will feed into the global stocktake of the KMGBF that is scheduled the same year at COP 17 in Armenia. This fast-approaching milestone should serve as a reminder that, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the KMGBF, the world is in a race against the clock to make peace with nature. More information: Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework KMGBF Second Anniversary Trello Board Countries to Resume Crucial Biodiversity Discussions in Rome, 25-27 February 2025
RT by @EU_ENV: 📢 #COP16Colombia Update:
The resumed sessions will take place in Rome, Italy, from 25 to 27 February 2025, with regional consultations on 24 February.
Read the full update here: https://www.cbd.int/notifications/2024-110
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RT by @EU_ENV: What is expected from businesses and financial institutions after #COP16Colombia?
Find it out at the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform Webinar on 10 December at 14:00 CET
Register to join online 👉 https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c6451b81-9cfb-4c0d-ae31-6b86ed4bf5d3@cf90b97b-be46-4a00-9700-81ce4ff1b7f6
#NatureIsEveryonesBusiness #ForOurPlanet
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RT by @EU_ENV: 🌍 #COP16Colombia made a key stride toward making #PeaceWithNature with agreements on Indigenous roles in biodiversity protection and a new global benefit-sharing mechanism for digital genetic information.
📄 Read the full press release here:
https://cbd.int/article/agreement-reached-cop-16
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The strong results, built on a spirit of compromise, and dialogue, demonstrate that multilateralism can still achieve results in a fractious time. After roughly 12 hours of meeting in the Plenary session, at roughly 9 am COP 16 lost quorum and was suspended before approval of a few last items. It will resume at a later date and venue to complete the agenda. The results at COP 16 are important strides towards achievement of the 23 targets for 2030 laid out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), adopted at the previous meeting of the Convention’s 196 Parties in Montreal in 2022. With billions of people depending on nature’s contributions, threats to biodiversity intensifying, and financial resources in short supply, the stakes at COP 16 were high. Comments “Over the last weeks, we have seen the largest, whole-of-society mobilization for biodiversity unfold in Cali, triggering interest from around the globe. We have seen Indigenous Peoples and local communities, civil society, businesses and financial institutions, sub-national governments, cities and local authorities, women and youth present remarkable initiatives and action. And through it all, this COP delivered a seminal message: the time has come to make peace with nature. “From Cali, this UN Biodiversity Conference sent a powerful call to action. It has never been clearer that the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement in a synergistic fashion will make peace with nature within reach." Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity "We arrived in Cali with a heavy agenda of work, and thanks to the determination of countries and the energy from this ‘People’s COP’, we’ve made good progress. COP16 has delivered important commitments on the interconnections on nature and climate, biodiversity and health and Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs). The new agreement on Article 8J is a critical step forward and commits us to embed the knowledge and role of Indigenous Peoples and local custodians across our work to deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework. Another big win is the new mechanism and fund for fair and equitable benefit-sharing from Digital Sequencing Information of genetic resources which will ensure that those who profit from biodiversity give back to nature, countries and communities. Of course, we would have liked to achieve more on resource mobilization and advances on the monitoring framework, but we will not slow down the pace of work. 2030 is rapidly approaching and action cannot wait." Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Useful Resources: COP16 Website Photos, video (free for media use) News conference schedule To view news conferences / negotiations / Plenary sessions: UNWebTV Documents of the meeting
RT by @EU_ENV: #COP16Colombia has delivered.
On nature, climate, health and on marine areas. An agreement to give a stronger voice to Indigenous Peoples, to Afro-descendants. And an agreement on a new Digital Sequence Information Fund.
But critical tasks lie ahead. Implementation cannot wait.
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RT by @EU_ENV: 📣 BREAKING: 🇪🇺 delivers on its global financing commitments to protect nature at #COP16Colombia
The package of almost €160 million includes new initiatives aimed at supporting partner countries and safeguarding biodiversity globally 👉 https://europa.eu/!KjKTXP
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