ECO

In this issue:

• Key criteria for a dedicated instrument on biodiversity finance
• PMRR is vital to advance – so let’s adopt the draft decisions
• Direct access to funding the custodians and stewards of biodiversity should be a priority
• Financial drivers of biodiversity loss must be addressed for biodiversity finance to be effective

Download ECO 71(1) as pdf

In this issue:

• Biodiversity and climate change

• The necessary recognition and respect of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the protection of biodiversity

• Biodiversity Crisis or Business Opportunity? Conflicting Universes in the CBD

In this issue

• High Court in South Africa invokes the Cartagena Protocol’s Precautionary Principle in revoking the approval of Monsanto’s MON87460 maize

• Bring “Peace” into CBD’s “Peace with Nature”: A Call from Okinawa, Japan

• Collision between Global Biofuels Push and Biodiversity Protection

• CBD Alliance statement at the meeting with the UN Secretary General

In this issue:

• “Dis- establish” CBD processes and decisions??! - A dangerous precedent!

• Voluntary or mandatory? And what's the scope?

• Integrating Biocultural Community Protocols into the work of Article 8(j)

• The CBD as a vehicle to promote biotechnology?

In this issue:

• DSI, AI and technology titans

• Implement non-market approaches to the global biodiversity targets!

• Operationalising Target 23, through the indicator on National Implementation of the Gender Plan of Action?

In this issue:

• Toxic Talk Poisoning Progress on the Monitoring Framework
• Complaint filed to UNEP about TNFD;  Indigenous-led protest targets Green Zone event
• Africa calls for “a Penny for Biodiversity”, micro-investment,  to end digital biopiracy
• COP16: An opportunity to reinforce precaution on geoengineering

In this issue:

• Harmful subsidies, debt and financing for biodiversity in Africa
• The emergency of genetically modified trees
• Gender, women defenders and coastal-marine areas of biodiversity relevance

In this issue:

• TNFD is NOT aligned with the GBF

• Biodiversity and energy transition: running counter to the GBF

• Debt for nature swaps: proceed with caution (and low expectations)

• The need to recognise Afro-descendant coummunities in the CBD

In this issue:

• Precaution and integrity at stake in the guidance materials on risk assessment of LMOs containing engineered gene drives
• Don’t let big banks write our laws on biodiversity & finance
• A purpose-oriented, multi-stakeholder and multi-evidence-based biodiversity global review
• Debt and tax justice required for KMGBF implementation

In this issue:

• President Petro is Right: COP16 must and can act on Artificial Intelligence threats to biodiversity.
• Time for Action: Finance, biodiversity and the risks of deep sea mining
• “Green Paradox”: subsidising biomass to destroy biodiversity
• Northern forests need protection too