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A four-day coordination workshop in Mombasa, convened by WIO-C member organisations, focused on Kenya’s marine and coastal inputs to CBD COP17, the launch of the WCS-led Kenya Marine 30×30 Project and the country’s national OECM process.
At the Regional Forestry Congress in Piura, the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership’s facilitator in Peru presented the Accelerator’s technical support to the Government of Peru and the Ministry of Environment (MINAM). The event also opened connections with government, academia, civil society and private sector actors working on forests and natural resources across the country.
Halfway to 2030, the Kunming Dialogue showed that countries agree on what is holding back the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The harder question is how to overcome those barriers.
At the 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, Pacific youth set out four asks for leaders. Their asks cover decision-making, finance, Indigenous knowledge and integrated action on biodiversity, climate and ocean. The NBSAP Accelerator Partnership provided further assistance for youth participation in the conference.
Kenya held the inaugural meeting of its Nature for Health scoping phase in Nairobi. The meeting started a participatory process to address the environmental drivers of zoonotic disease through a preventive One Health approach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Spotlight Series profiles NBSAP Accelerator Partnership members and suppliers who are actively accelerating the implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) under the Global Biodiversity Framework. Each feature examines the specific capabilities, experience, and implementation approaches that members and suppliers bring, and how these align with needs and implementation gaps identified by countries.