Environmental defenders

All ECOs published during COP14, Cartagena MOP9 and Nagoya MOP3

Issue 1:

• Synthetic Biology
• Risk assessment/ Risk management
• Local Biodiversity Outlooks

Issue 2:

• CBD Alliance Opening statement
• Mainstreaming Action at COP14
• Geoengineering: Ignoring CBD decisions at the United Nations Environment Assembly?
• The peasant's movement La Via Campesina is urging for a moratorium on gene drives
• Herbivory: critical to coral reef health
• Pressure Mounts for a Solution on Benefit Sharing
  for Digital Sequence Information

Issue 3 - Special IIFB issue:

• Integration of Article 8(j) and provisions related to indigenous peoples and local communities in the work of the Convention and its Protocols
• Biodiversity & climate change: Indigenous Peoples Traditional Knowledge is Key
• The importance of dialogue
• Listening to the voice of our Mother Earth
• Statement on Socio-economic considerations
• Review of progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Issue 4:

• Do Not Betray Africa on SynBio and Gene Drives - Civil Society Organisations urge African Governments
• UN aviation proposals threatens biodiversity goals
• Mainstreaming
• Addressing conflicts of interest in CBD processes
• extinction rebellion

Issue 5:

• Conflict of interest
• Gene drives
• UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
• Environmental defenders

Issue 6:

• Who benefits from gene drives and modern biotechnology?
• Post-2020 plenary: A wasted afternoon
• Farmers’ seeds underpin biodiverse food systems
• Salmon farms are threatening Chilean Patagonia
• Deforestation, monocultures and Strategic Plans

Issue 7

• Illegal use of pro-GM propaganda: Tanzania orders the destruction of GM field trials
• Will yet another GM-trial ban in Africa help the moratorium on synthetic biology?
• Civil society on post 2020 global biodiversity framework
• Mainstreaming human rights in the CBD: The Escazú Agreement, a contribution from Latin America and the Caribbean

Issue 8

• Deep-Sea Mining and Biodiversity Loss
• Target 21: Venues must contribute to biodiversity loss
• "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it"
• More vigorous engagement with parliamentarians
• urged in pursuing CBD targets

Issue 9

• Of mosquitoes and men
• Geoengineering: C2G2 and IPLCs
• "We are running behind..."

Issue 10

• The Paris Agreement as inspiration?
• A Stumbling Block for Implementation

All ECOs published during SBSTTA 21 and Art. 8j Working Group in Montreal, 11-16 December 2017

Issue 1

• CBD Alliance Opening Statement
• Synbio AHTEG: Open Letter to the Executive Director of the CBD
• Agricultural Biodiversity, Farmers' Rights and the SDGs
• Scenarios for the 2050 Vision
• When mining means extinction
• Marginalisation - sorry: Mainstreaming biodiversity in the energy and mining, infrastructure, manufacturing and processing, and health sectors

Issue 2

• Sustainable wildlife management: guidance for achieving a more sustainable bushmeat sector
• Biodiversity grows Healthy Food Systems
• Living in Harmony with Earth
• You have one minute.
• Biodiversity versus the climate? Geoengineering in the UNFCCC

Issue 3

• “One Health” and effect of Uranium mining
• Offsetting – a counterproductive mainstreaming tool
• Mainstreaming biodiversity in the energy and mining, infrastructure, manufacturing and processing, and health sectors
• Towards a global post-2020 biodiversity framework
• About Biodiversity Governance and Conflicts of Interests

Issue 4

• Recommendations of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Environmental defenders & UNPFII recommendations
• Who comes first in a “first world” country?
• ICCAs

Issue 5

• Indigenous and Local Knowledge(s) and Science(s): Complementary knowledge systems for Sustainable Development