Events
High level segment
Day: Wednesday, 30 october 2024
Title: Ministerial Luncheon: Engaging Agrifood Sectors in the Kunming-Montreal
Global Biodiversity Framework, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (by invitation)
Time: 13:15 - 14:45
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Official side events
Title: The Biodiversity Capacity-Building and Development Forum 2024
FAO Participation: Provider Perspectives: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Supporting Capacity Development for the Implementation of NBSAPs
Panelists: Mr. Frédéric Castell (FAO/OCBB), Ms. Victoria Romero (IUCN) , Ms. Clarissa Arida (ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity), Ms. Teshia JnBaptiste (CARICOM). Moderator: Ms. Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar, COP 16 Presidency.
Time: 11:00 to 12:30 (GMT-5)
Organizers: SCBD | Colombia
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Title: Pollinators in Latin America: Implementing the International Pollinator Initiative from the Region
Time: 13:20 (GMT-5)
Venue: Pacifico - Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities meeting room. Plaza One - Capacity: 130 people
Organizers: FAO | CBD | APimondia
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Title: Developing Indicators for Targets 4 and 5: Human Wildlife-Conflict and Sustainable Use and Trade of Wild Species
Time: 13:20 (GMT-5)
Venue: Farallones - Youth meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 90 people
Organizers: CPW | IUCN SSC HWCCSG | CIFOR | UNEP-WCMC | UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | FAO | Nigeria | India
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Title: Mainstreaming Biosafety in Legislation and Policy
Time: 18:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Atrato - Contact Group 5 meeting room CEVP Ground floor.
Organizers: CBD
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Title: A global knowledge service for biodiversity (GKSSB) – supporting Parties’ needs for monitoring implementation of the KM-GBF
Time: 11:40 (GMT-5)
Venue: Atrato - Contact Group 5 meeting room CEVP Ground floor. Capacity: 212 people
Organizers: FAO | UNEP-WCMC | CBD | EC | JRCEC | Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Mexico’s government) | BMUV | Ramsar convention on wetlands
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Title: Indigenous Youth as guardians and restorers of Biological Diversity
Time: 11:40 (GMT-5)
Venue: Pacifico - Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 130 people.
Organizers: PAHO | WB | FAO LAC | CBD | Arramat | ILC | filac | Youth Climate Justice Fund | UNFPA | FIAY
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Title: Indigenous Peoples’ Contributions to the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: The Costa Rican National Plan on Indigenous Peoples’ Biocentric Restoration and the ongoing work in the South Andean region
Time: 13:20 (GMT-5)
Venue: Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 90 people.
Organizers: GCR, FAO, IIFB, Mesa Indigena, INBRA
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Title: Forging Integrated Ecosystem-based Solutions: Sustainable Soil Management in Black Soil Regions for RIO convention synergies
Time: 18:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Pacifico - Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 130 people
Organizers: Brazil | CBD | FAO | Alliance Bioversity and Ciat/CGIAR
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Title: Reviving the CBD Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition: a catalyst for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Time: 15:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Nuqui - Academia & Research meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 86 people
Organizers: Brazil | CBD | FAO | Alliance Bioversity and Ciat/CGIAR
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Title: Africa and the Pacific align regional biodiversity strategies and action plans with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Time: 15:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 90 people.
Organizers: SADC | SPREP | FAO | AU | EAC
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Title: Youth leadership and agroecology catalyzing biodiversity conservation in agri-food systems
Time: 16:30 (GMT-5)
Venue: Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 90 people.
Organizers: WFF | GYBN | FAO
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Title: 11picos
Time: 10:10 (GMT-5)
Venue: Sumapaz - JUSCANZ meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 112 people
Organizers: FAO | ABC | Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Mexico’s government) | IIFB | JP | somos naturaleza
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Title: Leveraging Nature Positive Agriculture to Achieve Sustainable Food Systems and meet multiple GBF Targets
Time: 11:40 (GMT-5)
Venue: Sumapaz - JUSCANZ meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 112 people
Organizers: World Banana Forum/FAO | Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT | Belgium | WWF | BAIF | Fundación Alpina
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Title: Implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework: How UN-Oceans can support States in meeting their obligations under the GBF with a focus on the ocean-biodiversity-climate nexus
Time: 16:30 (GMT-5), 24 October
Venue: Sanquianga - GRULAC meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 136 people
Organizers: FAO | UN-Oceans | CTED | DESA | UNDOALOS | CBD | UN ESCAP | IOC | IAEA | ILO | IMO | ISA | ODA | UN-OHRLLS | OHCHR | UNHCR | CITES | CMS | UNFCCC Secretariat | UNESCO | UNCTAD | UNDP | UNEP | UNIDO | UNITAR | UNOPS | UNU | WB | WMO | UNWTO
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Title: Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity Through Resilient Food Systems: Integrating Conservation and Human Well-Being
Time: 18:00 (GMT-5), 24 October
Venue: Farallones - Youth meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 90 people
Organizers: FAO | EBCD | IUCN-CEM-FEG | CBD | GAN | ABF
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Title: Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring: Why Integration of Multiscale Tools is Needed
Time: 13:20 (GMT-5), 25 October
Venue: Paramos - NGOs meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 135 people
Organizers: FAO, CBD, Coalizão Brasil, IUCN, UN Decade
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Title: Articulating Approaches and Actors for Enhanced National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
Time: 10:10 (GMT-5), 25 October
Venue:TBD
Organizers: UNDRR, UNEP-ROLAC
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Title: Montpellier Process: Pooling Collective Intelligence for Action
Time: 13:20 (GMT-5), 25 October
Venue: Sierra Nevada - Working Group II. CEVP Ground floor. Capacity: 857 people
Organizers: Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT, CIAT
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Title: The Freshwater Challenge
Time: 18:00 (GMT-5), 25 October
Venue: Cocora - Subnational and Local Authorities meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 86 people
Organizers: WWF, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, FAO, UNEP, TNC, Wetlands International, CI, IUCN, UNCCD
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Title: Integrating AgriFood Systems Transformation in Implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Framework
Time: 15:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Paramos - NGOs meeting room Plaza One. Capacity: 135 people
Organizers: FAO | UNEP | CBD | ITPGRFA | Vanuatu | Lao PDR
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Title: Interoperable Sustainable Finance Taxonomies: A Key Tool to Mobilize Private Capital for the Global Biodiversity Framework Implementation
Time: 16:30 (GMT-5)
Venue: Mavecure - Business and Industry Organizations meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 86 people
Organizers: FAO | UNEP-FI | EC | WWF | WB | GIZ | UN ECLAC-CEPAL | UNDP | IMF | IFC | IDB | CAF
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Title: Land Use and Land Tenure for Biodiversity: Towards a Headline Indicator for T22 of CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework
Time: 15:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Cocora - Subnational and Local Authorities meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 86 people
Organizers: FAO | ILC | FPP | WRI
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Title: Peatland Power: Cultivating Biodiversity, Climate Resilience and Livelihoods
Time: 11:40 (GMT-5)
Venue: Mavecure - Business and Industry Organizations meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 86 people
Organizers: FAO | Wetlands International | BMZ | TNC | Synchronicity Earth
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Title: Agricultural Support, Biodiversity and Trade: Examining Connections to Repurposing Support
Time: 15:00 (GMT-5)
Venue: Farallones - Youth meeting room. Plaza One. Capacity: 90 people
Organizers: IUCN
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Pavilion events
Title: Amazon Forest Update: a Regional Challenge until COP30
Day: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
FAO Participation: Present the updating of the status of the Amazon forests, under different experiences end perspectives, including the 2nd regional report that is planned to be presented at the COP30 in Belém in 2025, in collaboration with ACTO, FAO and the Amazonia+ program financed by the European Union, thanks to the participatory work with the member countries.
Venue: EU Pavilion
Time: 17:30-19:00 (GMT-5)
Organizers: FAO | Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization – ACTO | MADS | MAATE
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Title: The Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism of FAO’s Plant Treaty: Placing Small-Scale Farmers at the Centre of the GBF Implementation
Day: Friday, 25 October 2024
FAO Participation: The Multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism of FAO’s Plant Treaty: placing small-scale farmers at the centre of the GBF implementation
Venue: EU Pavilion
Time: 17:30 – 19:00 (GMT-5)
Organizers: International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) | European Union | Partners of the International Treaty’s Benefit-Sharing Fund
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Title: Estrategias para la conservación de las áreas protegidas
FAO Participation: Civil Society in Action: Collaborative Strategies for the Conservation of Protected Areas.First National Assembly of the Network of Civil Society Natural Reserves in Colombia. Improving the management effectiveness of protected and conserved areas, with effective contributions from the Spanish-speaking Green List Community of Practice.
Venue: Banco de Bogotá - Auditorio Principal- Colombian Pavilion
Time: 7:30-8:45 (GMT-5)
Organizers: FAO | Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization – ACTO | MADS | MAATE
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Title: A global multi-stakeholders integrated approach towards conservation and enhanced management of critical forest biomes, as established in the KMGBF’s Target 3, improving livelihoods of women, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Venue: IUCN Pavilion
Organizers: FAO | UICN | BM
Programme of Events at the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Pavilion.
Opening of the Pavilion 21 October 2024 - Afternoon.
MAIN FAO EVENT
28 October 2024 - Food
Main Partners: FAO
Food Day will aim to make meaningful strides to support countries to advance the implementation of their commitments aligned with the COP16 theme: "Peace with Nature". To do so, agrifood systems and their actors need to be taken into consideration. To bend the curve of biodiversity loss, food security and biodiversity considerations need to go hand-in-hand.
22 October 2024 - NBSAP
Main Partners: FAO | NBSAP Accelerator
The NBSAP Day is designed to bring together a diverse array of stakeholders to showcase progress, share lessons learned, and explore innovative solutions for advancing NBSAP implementation. The event facilitates in-depth discussions among policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders addressing the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for effective NBSAP implementation at national and local levels.
23 October 2024 - Education
Main Partners: FAO | UNESCO | IUCN | WWF
Education Day at the Biodiversity Plan Pavilion will deliver on the May 2024 request from the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Subsidiary Body on Implementation to set out the framework of a Global Plan of Action for Education on Biodiversity, encompassing formal, non-formal, and informal education.
24 October 2024 - Biodiversity and Health
Main Partners: FAO | WHO | UNEP | SCBD
The aim of the Biodiversity and Health Day at COP 16 is to raise awareness about the interlinkages between biodiversity and health, in line with the view that the health of the environment and the health of all species are interconnected and interdependent, and that a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach is required to mainstream that view into national policies and strategies.
25 October 2024 - Forests and Water
Main Partners: FAO | Convention on Wetlands | Minamata Convention | UNEP | UNDP and UN-Water | ITTO | UNFF | IUCN | WWF
Forest and Water Day will put a spotlight on the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of forests and water-related ecosystems for the successful implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and numerous global commitments.
26 October 2024 - Trade
Main Partners: UNCTAD
Trade Day aims to facilitate and advance discussions among negotiators and stakeholders on potential pathways, best practices and solutions for trade and trade-related policies to address biodiversity loss and implement the goals and targets of The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Similarly, it will draw attention to biodiversity protection and restoration as well as sustainable and inclusive development.
27 October 2024 - Ocean
Main Partners: FAO | SCBD | IOC-UNESCO | IUCN | IUCN-FEG | SPREP | WEF | GOBI | Ocean and Climate Platform | Global Network of MPA Managers
Ocean Day at COP 16 will feature sessions organized around the central theme of the “Ocean as the Great Connector”. It will bring together actors from across the world and across the spectrum of those doing important work on research, planning, conservation, and sustainable use of the ocean at all scales from global to regional to national and to local levels.
29 October 2024 - Protect – Target 3
Main Partners: FAO | HAC | IUCN-WCPA
30 October 2024 - Restore – Target 2
Main Partners: FAO | UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration | UNEP
31 October 2024 - Cooperation
Main Partners: FAO | EMG | UNEP
Green zone events
Day: Sunday 27 October 2024
Title: T18: Creating the Right Incentives for a Nature Positive Future
Time: 8:00 am - 17:00 am
Venue: Cali Chamber of Commerce Auditorium
Organizers: CDB | CI | TNC | BM | GEF | Fundación Moore | Grupo ICCF