ECO 70(4) - Thursday, 24 October 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
ECO 70(3) - Wednesday, 23 October 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
ECO 70(2) - Tuesday, 22 October 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
ECO 70(1) - Monday, 21 October In this issue: Equity and ambition needed in resource mobilization How False Finance Destroys Biodiversity The CBD's Role in Securing Multilateral Regulation for Biodiversity: doing better than past Mainstreaming Processes Biodiversity Offsets and Credits: A Mirage Destined to Undermine Earth's Future DSI: An obligation or a mere trickle of funds? Horizon scanning, monitoring and assessment: Fundamental in ensuring equity and precaution in synthetic biology development
ECO 69 - SBI 4 In these issues: Regulating finance Green and Blue Bonds, Debt for Nature Swaps, Biodiversity Offsetting and Biodiversity Credits Conflict of Intrest procedures Perverse incentives and biomass Can biodiversity-based products and the bioeconomy be "sustainable"? Resource mobilisation Private financial instruments for biodiversity Human rights based approaches to the GBF Mainstreaming Rights holders and civil society participation in NBSAPs process