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Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Enhancing Biodiversity Co-Benefits
Speakers examined how to generate measurable, scalable biodiversity co-benefits from nature-based climate solutions—projects that conserve, restore, and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems while inclusively helping people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change.
Biodiversity and the Urgent Need for Food System Reform
This side event considered alternative food production systems that can produce more than enough to feed the world while working in alignment with landscapes and habitats to produce healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food.
Exploring Options for Financing and Investing in the Gender-Biodiversity Nexus
Panelists examined the current gender-biodiversity financing gap that needs to be addressed for gender-responsive implementation of the new GBF; and explored options that can help to address the gender-biodiversity financing gap to deliver on biodiversity, climate, and gender commitments.
Addressing the ABS Challenges of the GBF: On What Can We Build?
This side event reflected upon the implementation of the third objective of the CBD and related capacity development challenges under the forthcoming GBF. Speakers elaborated on what, in relation to ABS-related capacity development, should be done better under the future GBF.
Invest in Success: Innovative Finance for 30X30
Speakers discussed options for increasing investment through innovative financial mechanisms to achieve the post-2020 global biodiversity framework’s Target 3, on protecting 30% of the world's terrestrial and marine habitats by 2030
IPBES Sustainable Use and Values Assessments: Implications for the New Global Biodiversity Framework
Authors officially launched “Sustainable Use of Wild Species” and the “Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature” Assessment Reports, presenting their key findings and implications for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions: An ILO-IUCN-UNEP Report Launch
This event launched the first edition of the report series on “Decent work in Nature-based Solutions,” which develops a framework for assessing employment in Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including the first empirical evaluation of current and potential future global employment in NbS.
Nature-Positive Infrastructure: Connecting Communities – Safeguarding the Planet
Panelists explored how to generate a nature-positive transition through practical strategies for mainstreaming biodiversity safeguards in infrastructure development.
Digital Sequence Information (DSI) Is Changing the Way Genetic Resources Are Used in Agricultural Research and Development: Implications for New Benefit-Sharing Norms
This event considered how agricultural research organizations are increasingly using DSI to improve their work to conserve crop and livestock genetic diversity and to use genetic diversity in their plant and animal breeding programmes