Global Biodiversity Outlook

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
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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

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