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At UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership brought its implementation tools to a new audience, using Kenya’s experience to show what biodiversity-climate-land synergies look like in practice.
Government agencies, civil society and development partners gathered in Naivasha for a week-long review of Kenya’s draft updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, working through the draft chapter by chapter and target by target ahead of validation in October.
Seventy participants from across Thailand’s government, research and private sectors gathered in Bangkok this week to turn shared biodiversity and climate commitments into coordinated, investable action on the ground.
The NBSAP Accelerator Partnership and the Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Coalition convened the 3rd National Roundtable on Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity in the Philippines, bringing together Indigenous Peoples’ groups, civil society, international organizations, and government agencies to discuss the challenges, risks, and opportunities affecting Indigenous Peoples’ participation in biodiversity conservation.
While governments write NBSAPs, non-state actors, including Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women’s organizations, youth networks, and the private sector, are among the ones who can successfully deliver them. Side events at SBSTTA-28 & SBI-7 showed what sustained engagement and implementation can look like.
The Kunming Dialogue brings parties, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, women and youth representatives, academia, the private and financial sectors, and other stakeholders together in Kunming for an informal technical dialogue on collective progress in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework, ahead of COP17.
Sierra Leone’s Environment Protection Agency, in partnership with the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership, held four regional engagements bringing together 242 participants from across the country to build technical capacity, develop district implementation roadmaps, and sign commitment pledges to advance NBSAP 3.0 implementation.
A virtual knowledge exchange on tropical peatlands, requested by Peru through the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership’s MatchMaking Mechanism, connected national institutions with specialist partners to strengthen technical capacity for identifying, mapping, monitoring and managing tropical peatlands.
Colombia is demonstrating that countries implementing ambitious NBSAPs are valuable providers of technical expertise, sharing practical experience with peers facing similar implementation challenges.
The NBSAP Accelerator Partnership is exploring how carefully designed artificial intelligence tools can expand access to trusted knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and help countries accelerate implementation of their NBSAPs.