UN Trade & Development BioTrade Initiative

🌿 #COP16Colombia Day 10🌿 📍 Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴 | 30 October 2024 🌎 Dive into today’s events as leaders and nations work towards ambitious #biodiversity targets. Find the detailed schedule and join the global dialogue! Here’s what’s happening today: 🔹Restoration Day at the KMGBF Pavilion: 8:00 - 19:30 🔹Place Québec (last day): 9:00 - 18:00 🔹High Level Segment: 10:00 - 13:00; Closing Plenary: 15:00 - 18:00, Amazonia- CEVP Ground floor 🔹HLS Thematic Ministerial Dialogues: 10:00 - 13:00; Malpelo - Plaza One 🔹Working Group I: Review of CRPs (continued): 10:00 - 13:00, Sierra Nevada - CEVP Ground floor 🔹Plenary: Stocktaking and adoption of Decisions: 19:30 - 22:30; Amazonia - CEVP Ground Floor 🔹Plus, press conferences and numerous exciting side events! Check out today's schedule: https://lnkd.in/eSHVKkGP 🌍

“Biodiversity is humanity's ally. We must move from plundering it to preserving it." At the UN Biodiversity Conference COP 16 in Cali, Colombia, António Guterres calls for greater efforts to protect and save ecosystems, make peace with nature and keep the climate goals within reach. "No country, rich or poor, is immune to the devastation inflicted by climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and pollution.” https://lnkd.in/eBevBZPN

The High-Level Segment of #COP16Colombia is officially open! Today’s gathering demonstrates that progress and accountability in implementing the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (#KMGBF) are top priorities at the highest levels of leadership. The participation of the UN Secretary-General, six heads of state, five foreign ministers, 114 ministers, 33 deputy ministers, 25 high-level representatives, and delegations from 150 countries and 81 organizations reflects a collective commitment that cannot be reversed. This moment also saw the launch of the Global Coalition for #PeaceWithNature, a collective call for governments, businesses, civil society, and individuals to #ActNow - restoring harmony between people, nature, and human rights. 📺 Missed the opening? Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/e4QRTXfc 🔗 Learn more about the High Level Segment: https://lnkd.in/dFj8rR9h

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), en colaboración con MINCETUR Perú y SECO Economic Cooperation and Development , organiza una capacitación específica orientada a alinear las políticas comerciales con la #SostenibilidadAmbiental en Perú. Este taller reunirá a funcionarios gubernamentales y actores clave de la industria para debatir sobre los vínculos esenciales entre el comercio y el medio ambiente en un mercado global en transformación. A medida que aumentan las demandas de consumidores y reguladores para prácticas sostenibles, esta capacitación aborda: 🎯 La relación entre comercio y medio ambiente y los flujos comerciales de los bienes y servicios ambientales 🎯 El impacto de las #NormasAmbientales en las exportaciones agrícolas 🎯 El precio del carbono y el rol del comercio en la acción climática 🎯 La contaminación #plástica y la #EconomíaCircular 🎯 La #EconomíaOceánica y el acuerdo de subsidios a la pesca de la OMC Con presentaciones técnicas y estudios de caso, esta sesión equipa a responsables de políticas y partes interesadas para enfrentar prácticas comerciales sostenibles. Para presentaciones y más información sobre el taller: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3NIzQQI Mariella Amemiya Siu, Massimo Bloch,LUZ MARIA de la Mora, Chantal Line Carpentier, David Vivas Eugui, Claudia Contreras, Rodrigo Carcamo-Diaz, Marco Fugazza, Enrique Lendo, Henrique Pacini

Happening now at #COP16Colombia. Join UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) side event on "Advancing The Biodiversity Plan through #sustainable #trade: Lessons learned, best practices and impacts of the Global BioTrade Programme". 🕞10h10-11h30 📍 Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room, Plaza One, Blue Zone Join the side event and learn more about: 🔶the BioTrade Principles and Criteria: https://shorturl.at/ncBAa 🔶the BioTrade Self-Assessment Tool: https://shorturl.at/pBoUM 🔶the Trade and Biodiversity (#TraBio) Statistical Tool: https://lnkd.in/dqv9SrcV Additional information regarding the meeting is available here: https://lnkd.in/dGa5M8dS

📣Today at #COP16Colombia. Join UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) side event on "Advancing The Biodiversity Plan through sustainable trade: Lessons learned, best practices and impacts of the Global BioTrade Programme". The event will showcase the lessons learned, best practices and impact of the programme’s implementation by UNCTAD and partners and will serve as a platform to demonstrate the importance of key tools resulting from the programme such as the #BioTrade Principles and Criteria updated in 2020, the BioTrade Self-Assessment Tool for companies and entrepreneurs to assess their practices and the Trade and Biodiversity (#TraBio) Statistical Tool that provides information on the trade of biodiversity-based products for over 180 economies since 2010. All this work contributes to advancing the implementation of the #KMGBF, including targets 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 21. 🕞10h10-11h30 📍 Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room, Plaza One, Blue Zone Details about the event are available here: https://lnkd.in/dGa5M8dS Read more about: 🔶the BioTrade Principles and Criteria here: https://shorturl.at/ncBAa 🔶the BioTrade Self-Assessment Tool here: https://shorturl.at/pBoUM 🔶the Trade and Biodiversity (#TraBio) Statistical Tool here: https://lnkd.in/dqv9SrcV If you are in Cali, use the opportunity and visit us at Exhibition booth 63 to learn more about UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) activities to promote #trade as a tool to protect #biodiversity. #PeacewithNature #COP16Colombia

At UN Biodiversity #COP16Colombia, world leaders, scientists, representatives of indigenous groups, civil society and experts are meeting to discuss and agree on a way to protect the planet and achieve #PeacewithNature. Here is what’s at stake at this gathering:https://lnkd.in/gbP7uqu4

Join the final session of the #TradeDayCOP16 by - visiting #KMGBF Pavilion or -by accessing the live broadcast link here: bit.ly/3ZpCvWr The session organised by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) brings together international organisations, private sector, civil society and indigenous peoples and local communities representatives to share experiences and best practices on #biodiversity-based initiatives which promote social inclusion, social justice and #biodiversity #conservation. #peacewithnature #COP16Colombia #TradeDayCOP16

Happening now at #TradeDayCOP16 session organised by World Trade Organization and UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD): Standards, Investment practices, policies and regulatory frameworks are being discussed as means to support sustainable management of marine resources and biodiversity conservation. If you are at Cali, Colombia, come to #KMGBF Pavilion or watch online, this and all other sessions of the #TradeDayCOP16 that are broadcasted live here: http://bit.ly/3ZpCvWr

📣Happening now at #TradeDayCOP16: In the session organised by World Trade Organization Secretariat and Ellen MacArthur Foundation, experts from international organizations, NGOs, academia, and private sector share success stories on how market access measures can halt #biodiversity loss. Use this link to watch the meeting online 🖥http://bit.ly/3ZpCvWr #PeacewithNature #COP16Colombia #TradeDayCOP16