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Parties support gender equality target in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Thirteen Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have supported the call for a stand-alone gender equality target in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework during the resumed session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in Geneva, Switzerland this month.… Read More »Parties support gender equality target in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Targeting Gender – Best Practices and Ways Forward

by Women4Biodiversity

UN CBD SBSTTA24, SBI3, OEWG-3 Side event Date: 14 March 2022 Time: 13:15-14:15 CET Venue: On line+ On site (Salle 14, Level 2, CICG conference centre) Registration: bit.ly/targetgender Background The event will discuss the Draft Post-2020 Gender Plan of Action that will be presented during the… Read More »Targeting Gender – Best Practices and Ways Forward

ENABLING HER: Indigenous Women and Their Access to Climate and Biodiversity Finance

Date: 15 March 2022 Time: 09:00-10:30 am EST Language: English, Spanish, and French Register on this link or at bit.ly/enablingher Background The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 66) will take place from 14 to 25 March 2022. Due to… Read More »ENABLING HER: Indigenous Women and Their Access to Climate and Biodiversity Finance

Reimagining Conservation: Integrating human rights in the development and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Date and time: 28 February 2022 from 1:15 to 2:45 pm (Nairobi) Co-organizers: Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action; CIEL; Conservation International; Costa Rica, Earthjustice; Forest Peoples Programme; Human Rights Watch; International Indian Treaty Council; IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy; Natural… Read More »Reimagining Conservation: Integrating human rights in the development and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

#HerSafetyIsPriority Roundtable Summary

by Women4Biodiversity

Watch the full event HERE Mire el evento completo AQUÍ Introduction This event is a follow-up to the October 11 a high-level event on advancing gender considerations in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, held in parallel to the opening of the first part of the… Read More »#HerSafetyIsPriority Roundtable Summary

International Women’s Day: Overcoming Neglect

by Women4Biodiversity

Cristine Eghenter Original article at Linkedin, March 8, 2021 Gender equality and female empowerment are core development objectives, fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective, equitable and sustainable development outcomes. We still need to commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8th… Read More »International Women’s Day: Overcoming Neglect

Monday Member – Ruth Spencer

by Women4Biodiversity

Who is she and what drives her? Country: Antigua and Barbuda Region: Caribe Antigua is classified as a Small Island Developing State of the Caribbean (SIDS), and due to the ecological crisis it constantly faces natural disasters and its population is burdened with environmental impacts;… Read More »Monday Member – Ruth Spencer

World Environment Day 2020: Time for Nature, Time for Women

by Mrinalini Rai

Forest Landscape Restoration and Protection: A case of Paran Women Group, Narok County of Kenya Edna Kaptoyo/ Pastoral Communities Empowerment Programme (PACEP), Kenya Indigenous women are playing relevant role in forest landscape restoration that is also a water tower. They undertake this protection and restoration… Read More »World Environment Day 2020: Time for Nature, Time for Women

If there is a way out, taking care of Nature is the door

by Mrinalini Rai

by Ana Di Pangracio, Deputy Director at FARN and CBD Women Caucus Advisor This statement was originally published in the environmental supplement of the Argentine newspaper Perfil on May 22, 2020, on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity. The natural systems that… Read More »If there is a way out, taking care of Nature is the door

Framing biodiversity policy for post-2020: W4B reflections on Nature-based solutions

by Mrinalini Rai

By Mika Schroder atm. PhD student at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance As participants of the second meeting of the CBD Open-ended Working Group on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (OEWG-2020) met in Rome in early February 2020, discussions were buzzing with… Read More »Framing biodiversity policy for post-2020: W4B reflections on Nature-based solutions