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Deepening Synergies Between the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Paris Agreement
Nature-positive synergies between these important agreements are possible through: comprehensive management of risks, breaking down silos, and integrating policies, budgets, and plans at all levels.
10 Years of the Nagoya Protocol: Successes, Challenges, and Looking Forward
This high-level breakfast discussed actions in implementing and operationalizing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in a mainstreamed, effective, and practical manner—and how to ensure full ratification of the Protocol by all CBD Parties.
Just Transformations – Land Tenure Rights as the Basis for Restoring Land and Biodiversity While Protecting People and Livelihoods
This side event invited key stakeholders from the local, national, and global levels to discuss the need to make the protection of legitimate tenure rights the basis for implementation of the Rio Conventions to enable just transitions.
Biodiversity and the Energy Revolution
Releasing the results of a book on Biodiversity and Revolution of Energy and Electric Power, this forum addressed the unsustainable, fossil fuel-dominated pattern of energy development as a major underlying issue and contributor to the biodiversity crisis.
Implementing the Common Approach on Biodiversity and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
This dialogue was organized by the UN Environment Management Group to catalyze UN system-wide commitments to implement the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
High-level Event of the United Nations Regional Commissions
The regional economic commissions showcased how they are working to incorporate biodiversity targets into their portfolios.
Unveiling the First Nature for Health Investments for Preventing Pandemics Together
This side event unveiled the first six countries—Ecuador, Ghana, Mongolia, Rwanda, Vietnam, and Zambia—to join Nature for Health to demonstrate the linkages between biodiversity, climate change and pandemics and to advance the implementation of One Health at the national level.
Launch of the SIDS Coalition for Nature and Call for Action: Advocating for Greater Means for Achieving Ambitious Objectives
This CBD COP 15 side event made a call to action to enhance the means of implementing ambitious objectives for nature in SIDS under the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
Forest Ecosystem Restoration – A Crucial Piece of the New Global Biodiversity Framework
The need to assess and (re)design restoration plans, link them to finance, and upscale implementation was the focus of a side event that explored the seven-year-old Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative.