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#6334High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council
10 - 19 July 2023, New York, United States of America
News Headlines
#1322532021-12-21
New equipment for Canadian Coast Guard will help clean up oil spills
The $1.5-billion Oceans Protection Plan is the largest investment ever made to protect Canada’s coasts and waterways, while growing the economy.
News Headlines
#1322042021-12-17
European stores pull products linked to Brazil deforestation
Several European supermarket chains are dropping Brazilian beef products linked to destruction of the Amazon rainforest and tropical wetland, the US activist group Mighty Earth said Thursday.
News Headlines
#1322112021-12-17
France is preparing to host 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES in Lyon, with the support of the Metropole, and ensuring safe sanitary conditions for the participants
The upcoming 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will take place in the Metropolis of Lyon (France) and bring together members and observers to review strategic, policy and species-specific matters affecting the implementation of the Convention in preparation for the 19th meeting of the ...
News Headlines
#1322192021-12-17
Scottish forestry’s ambitious targets to balance environmental, economic and social outcomes
Well before world leaders headed to Glasgow for November’s COP26, the Scottish Government, along with the rest of the UK, had already committed to some very ambitious tree-planting targets.
News Headlines
#1321902021-12-16
Draft Ministerial Statement Highlights Environmentally Sustainable Trade
A large group of members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a draft ministerial statement on trade and sustainability on 15 December. The text is the result of the Trade and Environmental Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD), where 53 WTO members said they planned “to collabor ...
News Headlines
#1321832021-12-15
Climate tech investment is soaring this year — but might not be going to the right areas, PwC says
The average size of a climate tech deal almost quadrupled to $96 million in the first half of 2021, up from $27 million one year prior, PwC said.
News Headlines
#1321572021-12-13
Should we pay countries to protect their biodiversity?
The countries with the richest biodiversity don’t always take the necessary measures to protect them. Whether it’s because they lack the motivation or the resources to do so, or because they prioritize short-term economic benefits over environmental protection, countries often neglect their resp ...
News Headlines
#1321372021-12-10
CAF to use $7 billion capitalization for recovery, renewables in Latin America
CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America, will use $7 billion in planned equity capitalization to back economic recovery and renewable energy development in the region, its president said on Thursday.
News Headlines
#1321242021-12-09
Nature As Capital
We have increased our produced capital and human capital, by amassing knowledge and skills. At the same time, however, we have depleted, sometimes irreversibly, our natural capital, the very foundation of all economic and human activities.
News Headlines
#1321202021-12-09
Second Committee Approves Resolutions on Climate, SIDS, Biodiversity
The UN General Assembly’s committee on economic and financial issues (Second Committee) completed its work for the 76th session. The Committee, which had the first all-woman Bureau in the Committee’s history, reached agreement on guidance on biodiversity, convening conferences on SIDS and LLDCs ...
News Headlines
#1321142021-12-09
Digitizing the Natural History Museum London's entire collection could contribute over £2 billion to the global economy
The societal benefits of digitizing natural history collections extends to global advancements in food security, biodiversity conservation, medicine discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitizing natural history museum collection ...
News Headlines
#1320852021-12-07
Biodiversity flies under the radar, but is as pressing as climate change
More than half of GDP in SA is moderately to highly dependent on biodiversity and ecosystem services
News Headlines
#1320642021-12-06
Data point: World Soil Day
Soil erosion costs the global economy US$8bn a year, and reduces agri-food production by 33.7m tonnes, leading to increases of up to 3.5% in world food prices
News Headlines
#1319962021-11-30
Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs
Researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland used modern portfolio theory (MPT), a mathematical framework developed by the economist Harry Markowitz in the 1950s to help risk-averse investors maximise returns, to identify the 50 reefs or coral sanctuaries around the world that are most li ...
News Headlines
#1320042021-11-30
Call for evidence: aligning the UK’s economic goals with environmental sustainability
The Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee is calling for views on taking greater account of natural capital and environmental sustainability in assessing UK economic prosperity.
News Headlines
#1319702021-11-29
Toward a well-being economy
Traditionally, our policy and decision-makers use three basic measures of economic progress: gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, and unemployment rate. But how useful are these economic measures, especially during this period when we are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic?
News Headlines
#1318822021-11-24
Biodiversity market expected by year's end
A market platform matching producers providing biodiversity services with corporations seeking to invest in credible on-farm environmental stewardship is expected to be running by the end of the year.
News Headlines
#1319022021-11-24
ASR Nederland N : A.s.r. to reward farmers for sustainable business operations
a.s.r. is going to reward farmers who are committed to sustainable business operations. Farmers who use agricultural land owned by a.s.r. can receive a discount of 5 to 10% on the rent if they manage their land sustainably. In order to make the agricultural sector more sustainable, a.s.r. has fo ...
News Headlines
#1319082021-11-24
Five issues to resolve before we can trade natural capital
An extraordinary opportunity is emerging in the form of natural capital markets, but five main challenges have to be overcome before responsible trading schemes can be launched, according to one sustainability expert.
News Headlines
#1318772021-11-24
Investors must assess biodiversity risk: ACSI
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors is urging its members to assess the financial risk posed by biodiversity loss and push companies to do more to protect the environment from deforestation, ecosystem extinction and pollution of the oceans and freshwater resources. New research b ...
Meeting
#6015Meeting
#6138Sixteenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests
26 - 30 April 2021, Online
Meeting
#6137United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum
7 - 8 April 2021, Rome, Italy
Notification
#30622021-03-11
United Nations High-Level Political Forum
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/OH/GD/89465 (2021-017)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points and ABS Focal Points
English
Meeting
#5974World Food Safety Day 2020
7 June 2020, Rome, Italy
News Headlines
#1251002020-04-16
Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation
The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation. However, most international policies on biodiversity and sustainability advocate economic growth.
Notification
#29442019-12-12
Tracking Economic Instruments and Finance for Biodiversity: Invitation to contribute data on positive incentives relevant to Aichi Biodiversity Target 3 to the OECD PINE database
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/GD/88414 (2019-114)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Resource Mobilization Focal Points
English
Notification
#28742019-05-13
Composition of the Informal Advisory Group on Mainstreaming of Biodiversity
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/OH/GD/87855 (2019-045)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, relevant stakeholders, organizations and initiatives
English
Meeting
#5872World Economic Forum 2019
22 - 25 January 2019, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
Meeting
#5791International Youth Day 2018 (http://www.un.org/en/events/youthday/events.shtml)
12 August 2018, New York, United States of America
Meeting
#5719First meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)
24 - 29 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
Meeting
#5712First Meeting of the Parties to the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures
29 - 31 May 2017, Oslo, Norway
Notification
#26162017-05-11
Invitation to Register for a Massive Open Online Course on Greening Consumption and Production (31 May - 12 July 2017)
Reference: SCBD/IMS/RS/ET/CP/86505 (2017-041)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, other Governments, IPLCs and relevant organizations
English
Meeting
#5706Twentieth Session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
8 - 12 May 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
Meeting
#5550Subregional Capacity-building Workshop on Financial Reporting and Resource Mobilization for Southeast Asia
30 November - 1 December 2015, Manila, Philippines
Meeting
#5549Subregional Capacity-building Workshop on Financial Reporting and Resource Mobilization for English Speaking African Countries
24 - 25 November 2015, Entebbe, Uganda
Meeting
#5547Subregional Capacity-building Workshop on Financial Reporting and Resource Mobilization for South America
12 - 13 November 2015, Lima, Peru
Meeting
#5546Sub-regional Capacity-building Workshop on Financial Reporting and Resource Mobilization for Spanish-speaking Central American and Caribbean Countries
26 - 27 October 2015, San Jose, Costa Rica
Meeting
#5534Subregional Capacity-Building Workshop on Financial Reporting and Resource Mobilization for South Asia
16 - 18 September 2015, New Delhi, India
Meeting
#5452Side Event
#3297COP 12
2014-10-13
Strengthening capacities to combat poaching and the illegal wildlife trade in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
The current dimension and growth in the illegal trade in wildlife products pose a significant risk both to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and to social and economic development. Past and recent successes in conservation, protected area management and the governance of natur ...
Side Event
#3276COP 12
2014-10-13
Biodiversity Conservation in China: the national progress for the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
In this workshop, the national progress of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in China will be introduced. Meanwhile, the preliminary results of two pilot studies for economics valuation at local level and one for poverty reduction at community level in China will be shown respectively ...
Side Event
#3301COP 12
2014-10-09
AICHI TARGET 3 ON POSITIVE INCENTIVES: CAN MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
RATIONALE AND POLICY RELEVANCE Building on decision XI/4 adopted in 2012, Parties at this 12th CoP will discuss the need to mobilize funds at the international and domestic levels to achieve the three objectives of the Convention. To do so, Parties will discuss a list of key actions to improve ...
Side Event
#3157COP 12
2014-10-07
ACHIEVING THE AICHI TARGET 7 : BUILDING A GREEN ECONOMY WITH SATOYAMA-SATOUMI APPROACH
How to mainstreaming Green economy for achieving the Aichi target 7, overcoming the diverse values? This side event provides 2 cases with Satoyama-Satoumi approaches and 1 methodology for multi-stakeholder communication.Furthermore, we will also discuss life&work-style innovation in Satoyama-Sa ...
Recommendation
SBSTTA-18#13333
Recommendation XVIII/8
Obstacles encountered in implementing options identified for eliminating, phasing out or reforming incentives that are harmful for biodiversity
Meeting
#5264World Cities Summit 2014: Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Common Challenges, Shared Solutions
1 - 4 June 2014, Singapore, Singapore
Meeting Document
#987582014-04-25
UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/18/11
Modalities and Milestones for the Full Operationalization of Aichi Biodiversity Target 3, and Obstacles Encountered in Implementing Options Identified for Eliminating, Phasing Out or Reforming Incentives That Are Harmful for Biodiversity
Meeting
#5339Regional Workshop on Resource Mobilization for Africa
11 - 13 February 2014, Entebbe, Uganda
Meeting
#5319Round table on access to information, public participation and access to justice regarding LMOs/GMOs
16 - 17 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland