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🌍 Experts urge States to fully integrate human rights at COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity 🌱 Powerful calls are being made ahead of CBD-COP16 to prioritize human rights in biodiversity action. 🙌 Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has shared an open letter emphasizing the urgent need for a human rights-based approach at COP16 UN Experts calls for HRBA in biodiversity action: https://lnkd.in/g7hQ-sTv In addition to incorporation of human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment to decision making implementation, It is high time we also discuss human rights to a decent livelihood and life for Indigenous peoples and Local communities including Small-scale and artisanal fishers 🌊 🎣 #COP16 #HumanRights #Biodiversity #SustainableEnvironment #IndigenousRights #SmallScaleFisheries

The COP 29 is important in attempting to climate action and commitment. Below are some examples of how Tana assists Sida in its work on these important subjects.

Why is #COP16 and the Global Biodiversity Framework Important to Business? Target 22 - Ensure Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice and Information Related to Biodiversity for all This target highlights the need for the participation of all voices in nature-positive action, including indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities. Access to justice empowers IPLCs to defend their rights, protect their territories, and challenge harmful practices that threaten biodiversity. When communities have access to justice, they can hold perpetrators accountable and deter harmful practices, while incentivizing sustainable behaviour. When communities have access to information about environmental decisions and impacts, they can participate meaningfully in decision-making processes and hold those in power accountable. Target 22 also stresses the need to protect environmental human rights defenders as they are at the forefront of protecting biodiversity by monitoring and exposing environmental abuses, promoting sustainable practices and advocating for a human rights-based approach to conservation efforts. How can business contribute? 👉 Respect the rights of IPLCs over lands, territories, and resources 👉Where appropriate, permitted and relevant to do so, integrate traditional knowledge into business practices and decision-making processes   👉Support initiatives led by these communities to protect biodiversity 👉Ensure that women are equally represented in decision-making roles related to biodiversity, and address barriers that may prevent women from participating fully 👉Provide access to information on biodiversity and environmental issues.  👉Provide access to grievance mechanisms for affected communities to voice their concerns and seek redress 👉Develop human rights policies covering all business operations, conduct human rights due diligence including engagement with IPLCs 👉Implement safeguards to prevent human rights abuses environmental activists and defenders We invite you get involved and learn more about the Global Biodiversity Framework (#GBF) and UNDP’s #NaturePledge. ✴ Read the original text on #Target22 and review the complete list of the 23 GBF targets: https://lnkd.in/gz6wWyTC ✴ Read our report, Asia in Focus: Biodiversity and the Business and Human Rights Agenda. https://lnkd.in/g7bpghhp ✴ Learn more about UNDP’s Nature Pledge by visiting our website: <https://lnkd.in/gKNuvaiw> Midori Paxton Livio Sarandrea Aparna Basnyat Harpreet Kaur Penny Stock Doley Tshering Jamison Ervin Martin Cadena Tim Scott Simone Boneschi

🌱 Originally published by Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) ✨ WECF's recent workshop with GFC and other Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) participants was held alongside international biodiversity negotiations recently. 🌿 "Particularly in these times of polycrisis – social, environmental, political and more – it is vitally important that civil society actors worldwide, especially feminist and women’s movements, keep seeking each other out and building strong and connected movements. It is equally important that funders – sometimes more interested in results – respect and resource these moments of connection as an integral part of the work we do." ❓Want to know more? 🔗 Full reflections at link: https://lnkd.in/e74KYVw9 Image from WECF International: "One of the collages representing visions for alternative, just futures." WECF International #GenderJustice #ClimateJustice #GLA #EcoFeminism #Biodiversity

COP16 Highlights & Reflections! 🌍 🎥 Hear from Joyce Peshu as she shares her powerful reflection from the heart of COP16 negotiations. She discusses the main focus of Item 19, emphasizing the recognition of women’s roles as essential stakeholders in sustainable wildlife management. Joyce also provides insights into how the negotiations unfolded, stressing the importance of gender responsiveness in policies, decision-making, and capacity-building efforts to achieve biodiversity goals. 🔻Caption in French and Spanish below👇 in the comments UN Biodiversity #CbdwomensCaucus #Peacewithnature #genderandbiodiversitychampion #COP16Colombia #GPA #Target23 #Womenandgirls #GenderJustice #GBF #humanrights #postcop16 #Item19

Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 21 October–1 November 2024 - Colombia To the delegates of COP16, Women’s land rights are fundamental to recognizing and prioritizing their vital role as the primary guardians of biodiversity. Women have long been at the forefront of sustainable land use and natural resource management, safeguarding ecosystems, conserving biodiversity, preserving seeds, protecting forests, ensuring sustainable water use, and passing down traditional knowledge that fosters environmental resilience. However, their contributions are too often undervalued due to a lack of secure land rights, limiting their power to make impactful, long-term decisions for conservation. We urge COP16 to recognize and protect women's land rights as a core strategy to combat biodiversity loss and ensure climate resilience. Secure land rights for women will not only uplift their voices but also strengthen biodiversity protection efforts worldwide. By affirming these rights, we empower women as stewards of biodiversity, enabling them to continue their invaluable work for future generations and paving the way for a sustainable and equitable planet. #women'slandrights

At COP16, we witnessed a groundbreaking moment: four powerful women—Aissatou Oumarou, Devi Anggraini, Sara Omi and Cristiane Pankararu—from four distinct regions of the Global South, coming together to amplify Indigenous women leadership and advocate for solutions rooted in traditional knowledge. United by a shared purpose, they champion the essential role of women in conservation and climate action, underscoring the urgency of people-centered approaches in biodiversity protection. United, they’re a testament to the impact of many voices coming together to drive meaningful change. Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB) #COP16 #WomenLeadingChange #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice

Two write-ups I think anyone working in #biodiversity and #conservation should read, particularly those of us going to #COP16 🌿 Emil Sirén Gualinga 's paper on how to move beyond #tokenisation to Full and Effective and Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Decision Making 🦎 Rhett Ayers Butler 's piece on what IPs hope to achieve in #Cali Here's a summary of both: 🌿 For any project/program/investment (or workshop), start by identifying relevant Indigenous Peoples and their Decision-Making Processes 🌿 Go on to Identify and respect Indigenous Peoples’ priorities 🌿 To ensure inclusive community participation, make sure women and youths perspectives are included 🌿 Shift your Perspectives: From thinking about IPs as stakeholders and beneficiaries to partners and rightsholders (more on this in a Climate Collective paper by Lauren Serota and Nkwi Flores released at #NYClimateWeek 🔗 )   🌿 Emil Sirén Gualinga concludes by reminding us that given this diversity, there is no one-size-fits-all-approach - check out his paper to see a few examples of relevant actions to foster full and effective participation in practice. 🦎 Rhett Ayers Butler and Aimee Gabay or Mongabay captured "What Indigenous leaders want from the COP16 U.N. biodiversity convention": 🦎 Participation: A common theme was the need for Indigenous involvement in decision-making processes to shape how the GBF will be implemented. 🦎 Integration of traditional knowledge indicators into the monitoring system for the GBF. 🦎 Recognition of Indigenous territories as distinct conservation areas. 🦎 Preservation of traditional knowledge. 🦎 Financing: Delegates are pushing for mechanisms that will allow Indigenous peoples to directly access biodiversity funding. 🦎 Representation for all groups. I will keep these priorities in the back of my mind as I sit in workshops, panels and at networking sessions. Together we can be powerful allies.

#COP16 in Cali was a very unusual international gathering of stakeholders fostering concrete actions on a critical aspect of the triple planetary crisis. It was much more than a Conference of State Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. It engaged indigenous peoples, afrodescendant communities, environmental defenders, local journalists, students, academics, mandate holders, and more in substantive debates. Many of the brilliant ideas did not capture the will of State representatives, but some did, and the threads of discussions and alliances strengthened the path forward. Many thanks to all tagged by the CEJIL team and many more! Some of my take aways: - promoting the engagement of key actors giving inputs for a meaningful report for the WG on Enforced Dissapearences - plans and activities with indigenous peoples, afrodescendant communities, journalists and activists in the Amazon region - insights on the need of better information systems and the agendas of the brilliant SRapporteurs on Climate and environment - insights on the policies to support EHRD including to end impunity, to secure addressing collective protection, and root causes of violence including the Esperanza Protocol and the Escazu Agreement - engaging with students (UNIMINUto and ICESI) and witnessing the endless curiosity of children at the stand of Parques Nacionales/ National Parks - engaging with those instrumental to bringing the Kogi people some of their cultural artifacts from a museum in Germany Expert Ana Lorena Delgadillo, SR Elisa Morgera Gisela B. Hurtado Barboza, Javier Palummo, Cesar Andres Paredes, Deutsche Welle Akademie, the generous defenders of Nomadesc, Berenice Celeyta, Andrew Miller, Global Witness, Inga, Sergio Chaparro, Colectivo de Abogados y Abogadas José Alvear Restrepo (Cajar), Juliana Bravo Valencia, ACADESAN VIDA, TERRITORIO Y DERECHOS doctor Lars Christian Koch, Taita Pablo, Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa - FLIP and many many more!

Many insights still to share from UN Biodiversity #COP16 in the lead up to UNFCCC UN #COP29...I'll post my thoughts in the next day and in the meantime thank Center for Justice and International Law - CEJIL Dejusticia @AIDAespanol for the spaces for reflection they offered on: 🔎 the Inter-American Court's Advisory Opinion process 💡 the importance of #acess2info on #ClimateChange and #HumanRights ❗ the effective protection of environmental human rights defenders, including from enforced disappearances