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ECO 64(3) - 5 December 2022 (pdf)

• Five key points on biodiversity
• Why we must protect precaution at the CBD

ECO 64(2) - 4 December 2022 (pdf)

• New report uncovers human rights impacts of exclusionary natural protected areas on the Kichwa People of San Martin in the Peruvian Amazon
• We need gender in the biodiversity policy agenda NOW!
• Time to support Target 22 on gender equality towards COP15
• Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands are not a laboratory for testing risky gene drive organisms
• The responsible approach to Target 17
• Human rights and accountability in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

ECO 64(1) - 3 December 2022 (pdf)

• Ingredients for updated Post-2020 GBF (pdf)
• DSI discussions require urgent focus on data governance
• Gene drives are the opposite of nature conservation
• A rights-based path for people and planet. Human rights proposal for the post-2020 GBF
• The Post-2020 GBF must help operationalise the new right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
• How business is quietly taking over the Convention on Biological Diversity
• Agroecology: The CBD’s transformative opportunity

This special issue of ECO contains articles that address content related to the discussions around the High Level Summit on Biodiversity and the process towards the adoption of a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework 

Issue 1:

• Synthetic Biology
• Monetisation of Nature
• Mainstreaming of Biodiversity
• Women’s Award

Issue 2:

• Gene drives
• Women’s Award
• Deep Sea Mining
• What are ICCAs?

Issue 3:

• Geoengineering
• ABS under litigation in India
• FAO forest definition & plantations

Issue 4

• Collective action for recognition of ICCAs in Indonesia
• What’s at Steak? Impacts of the industrial livestock and feedstock sector on forests, biodiversity, farmers and communities
• When Dollar Signs Grow on Bushes
• On customary sustainable use indicators, Aichi Target 18

Issue 5

• Mayan peoples in COP 13
• Locals win against GM mosquito release
• Countries need to increase actions and funding or the Aichi Targets won’t be achieved
• Consumer Rejection Driving Out GMOs in USA and  Elsewhere
• Aichi Targets 11 and 12: Environmental movement victory brings EU back on track

Issue 6

• Gene drives
• AHTEGs on Risk Assessment and on Socio-Economic Considerations

Issue 7

• Harrasment
• Tourism
• Nuclear radiation
• Indigenous women & traditional knowledge

Issue 8

• Free prior informed consent
• Business & Biodiversity
• Múuch'tambal Summit on Indigenous Experience

Issue 9

• Cancun & tourism
• Local Biodiversity Outlooks

Issue 10

• Local managed marine areas
• Statement of students and professors of the Intercultural University of the State of Mexico

Issue 11:

• Gene drives
• Aichi Targets
• Environmental policies
• Licencing
• Protecting 17%

Special issue Agricultural diversity

Issue 1

• Glbbale Biodiversity Outlook 4
• ICCAs & Aichi Targets
• Little progress, conflict of interests & unabated unintentional transboundary movements
• The EU at COP 13, 14, 15...

Issue 2

• IIFB Opening Statement
• Incentives for subsidy reform
• The World is not on track to stop the loss of biodiversity
• Synthetic biology: Make or break for the CBD?
• How to integrate biodiversity into the “real” global agenda?

Issue 3

• Precaution and Prevention Action to address IAS effectively
• NBSAPs - the hard way
• 500 years versus 3 days: Mount Gariwang must be protected

Issue 4

• Synthetic Biology: one of the statements that Civil Society was not allowed to make yesterday
• World Bank’s Business Indicators Threaten Biodiversity
• Biodiversity & sustainable development
• Bring Agriculture back into the CBD!
• Same word, two distinct legal contexts: What does “non-discriminatory” mean for Compliance in the Nagoya Protocol?

Issue 5

• Protected Areas, Indigenous Territories and ecosystem conservation and restoration
• Nuclear Energy; New Threats to Biodiversity
• Lake Victoria Basin: A message to policy makers
• Forests: out of the radar
• The role of collective action in the conservation of biodiversity
• Biofuels and Biodiversity

Issue 6

• Nagoya Protocol: a milestone - but still far from the finish line to stop biopiracy
• The Business Of Looking After Business Interests
• Dodo Award
• Global Multilateral Benefit Sharing Mechanism still stuck at “need” debate
• Who is steering the bus?
• Sendenyu - A Success Story of Indigenous Community Initiative towards Conservation

Issue 7

• Mainstreaming is not an easy task
• Tourism & Biodiversity
• Applause for Wise Decision on Biodiversity in Garorim Bay
• 2014 Pyeongchang Buddhist Declaration for Life-Peace
• The 2014 Captain Hook 2.0 Awards For Syn Bio Piracy

Issue 8

• The Pyeongchang Roadmap to Destruction
• India’s Delegation of Two Reflects Home Reality
• Invasive alien species problem in Japan
• Song for ICCA Pongso no Tao

Issue 9

• What will be your next steps to protect biodiversity?
• Racing to the bottom: the fate of a mountain
• Resource Mobilisation

Issue 10

• GE trees in Brazil – Will a party to the CBD disregard COP decision IX/5 (1)?
• Not enough focus on Agriculture and Small Farmers’ Rights will hurt mainstreaming!
• Keep agriculture, forestry and fisheries on the agenda!
• ig wall in front of marine and coastal management in host countries of CBD