Risk assessment

Interventions prepared and delivered by the CBD Alliance during the online sessions in preparation to SBSTTA 24. (Subsidiary Body on Scientific Technical and Technological Advise) 

Intervention on agenda item 3. Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework 

Intervention on agenda item 4. Synthetic Biology

Intervention on agenda item 5. Risk assessment 

Intervention on agenda item 6. Marine and coastal biodiversity 

Intervention on agenda item 7. Agriculture and Biodiversity 

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

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