In this issue:
Sticky Issues with the National Reports
Friedrich Wulf, Pro Natura – Friends of the Earth Switzerland - 2026 is a key year for the implementation of the KMGBF and the CBD as a whole. At this year’s COP in Armenia, we should have before us a Global report that tells us where we are on track and where we are off track to reach our targets by 2030. This global stocktake will enable us, and incentivize us, to pinpoint the major gaps and to upscale action in order to achieve the targets. It will be essential to set up evaluation processes of the different measures that are being implemented. Which policy options bring real benefit for biodiversity, which ones don’t?
Burdensome Debt Curbs Biodiversity Protection
Third World Network and allies - In 2024, Parties to the CBD requested that the Secretariat commission a study on the relationship between debt sustainability and implementation of the Convention. The study’s findings have important implications for resource mobilization discussions at SBI-6, though conclusions and policy recommendations should await a full and transparent review. The final, peer-reviewed study should inform conti-nued SBI-7 deliberations and recommendations to COP.
Recycling Loss Is Not Resource Mobilisation
Rainforest Action Network - Developing countries are right to insist on scaled-up, predictable and grant-based biodiversity finance. New and additional public finance remains essential to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework, particularly for countries facing severe fiscal constraints.
A Gender Perspective on Specialized ABS Instruments
Meenal Tatpati, Independent lawyer-researcher and member, CBD Women’s Caucus - Discussions under Article 4(4) of the Nagoya Protocol are often framed as technical debates about legal coherence. Yet the choices Parties make regarding the recognition of specialized international access and benefit-sharing (ABS) instruments carry significant political and social implications.
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