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Peru’s National Biodiversity Commission (CONADIB) held its third ordinary meeting, bringing together more than 21 government and civil society institutions to coordinate biodiversity priorities and prepare for COP17 in Armenia.
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.
A newly established youth biodiversity network in Kazakhstan is bringing young volunteers from across the country into the national biodiversity agenda ahead of CBD COP17.
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.
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.
A youth fund in Ecuador is backing projects that link local action in Biosphere Reserves to national and global biodiversity commitments, with one grantee selected per reserve.