CBD COP15 side event: Celebrating International Year of Mountains - ensuring mountain biodiversity protection within the post-2020 GBF implementation

14/12/2022

This high-level mountain-related side event on 14 December 2022 at 18.15 (EST) highlights the efforts undertaken to elevate mountain biodiversity and the need for its protection within the post-2020 outcome and implementation and gives insights to supporting science-policy processes and products. The side event further provides a platform for dialogue and exchange of views among high-level representatives from countries working towards the protection of mountain biodiversity. Consequently, preliminary ideas for the roadmap of how mountain biodiversity will be addressed in the implementation of post-2020 will be collected. As a best-practice example, the renewed trilateral Memorandum of Cooperation between the CBD, the Carpathian and Alpine Conventions, will be presented as well as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, including key flagships.