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Science body of UN Biodiversity Convention meets in Nairobi to agree on scientific and technical measures to support the implementation of the global biodiversity targets
Governments from around the world are meeting this week in Nairobi from 15 to 19 October to recommend science-based measures to support the implementation of the ambitious Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted last December.
Asia Pacific environment ministers commit to action to tackle shared planetary challenges
Environment Ministers and senior officials from the Asia and the Pacific region pledged concerted action to tackle the crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution at the Fifth Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific, with the aim of restoring planetary balance and protecting people.
Representatives from 30 Member States in the Asia-Pacific region convened in-person and online for the conference, which took place from 4-5 October 2023 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Forum was co-organized by the Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
On UNGA margins, world leaders bolster bedrock of international law
In June 2023, UN Member States adopted a groundbreaking treaty aimed at safeguarding life in the high seas.
As negotiations continue for the 78th session of the General Assembly (UNGA 78), Heads of State, Foreign Ministers, and other top representatives are converging to endorse multilateral treaties which form the bedrock of international legal frameworks.
A radical shift to working with nature
"We need an urgent and radical shift: from using nature, to working with nature. To creating nature-centred economies that understand the difference between price and value, between price and cost," said Inger Andersen, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, at the Nature Driving Economic Transformation event in New York. The event was convened at the SDG Action Weekend of the SDG Summit at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Andersen laid out three key steps that are needed to live in harmony with nature:
- One, implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
- Accounting for nature
- Taking holistic action across the triple planetary crisis
IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment
The severe global threat posed by invasive alien species is underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged. According to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), more than 37,000 alien species have been introduced by many human activities to regions and biomes around the world. This conservative estimate is now rising at unprecedented rates. More than 3,500 of these are harmful invasive alien species – seriously threatening nature, nature’s contributions to people and good quality of life.
Approved on Saturday, 2 September, in Bonn, Germany, by representatives of the 143 member States of IPBES, the Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control finds that alongside dramatic changes to biodiversity and ecosystems, the global economic cost of invasive alien species exceeded $423 billion annually in 2019, with costs having at least quadrupled every decade since 1970.
New global biodiversity fund launched in Vancouver
The Global Environment Facility’s Seventh Assembly in Canada has launched the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund to support nature restoration.
The fund will provide the resources needed to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework, which aims to halt & reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
The new fund was ratified and launched at the GEF Assembly in Vancouver, where two countries announced initial contributions to start its capitalization. This included 200 million Canadian dollars from Canada and 10 million pounds from the United Kingdom.
Fostering collaboration to address environmental challenges in Africa
“It is a great injustice that Africa, which has contributed the least to climate change, is poised to suffer the most.”
UNEP Deputy Executive Director Elizabeth Mrema calls on the global community to provide greater support in tackling the triple planetary crisis at the 19th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Amid worry for the planet, GEF Assembly to propel bold collaboration for nature
The Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, which takes place in Vancouver from 22-26 August, will stand out for its focus on the dangers of the present.
Environment leaders from 185 countries are gathering at a time of record-high land and ocean temperatures, out-of-control wildfires, and deadly flooding even in areas unaccustomed to weather extremes: a succession of disasters that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as heralding the arrival of “an era of global boiling.”
A highlight of the Assembly agenda will be the launch of the new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF), which will provide a boost to developing countries’ investments in nature and support Indigenous Peoples and local communities in their pursuit of the ambitious goals agreed to at the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15 in December 2022.