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Guest article by Ramya Rajagopalan The 2008 Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CoP) introduced the scientific criteria for identification of areas to be designated as ecologically or biologically significant areas (EBSAs). This was basically introduced to describe and identify areas, that… Read More »Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) and Traditional Knowledge

By Sharon Nyambura Ruthia, Women4Biodiversity Watch the recording in English, Spanish, and French here. In celebration of the International Day of Rural Women (15 October) and World Food Day (16 October), Women4Biodiversity held “She Sustains Communities,” a virtual event on women, food sovereignty and the… Read More »HIGHLIGHTS – She Sustains Communities: A pre-International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day event on women, food sovereignty, and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

The UNCBD Women’s Caucus (WC) recently convened the third of its series of workshops in preparation for the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15). An expert panel within the membership of the WC guided the participants from… Read More »UNCBD WOMEN’S CAUCUS ROADMAP TO CBD COP 15: Third Open Discussion on Resource Mobilization, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, the Post-2020 Gender Plan of Action and Monitoring and Reporting Frameworks

Por CoopeSoliDar RL. Participaron en la elaboración de este documento: Griselda Alvarado Picado, Ivannia Ayales Cruz , Vivienne Solís Rivera y Marvin Fonseca Borras. Las organizaciones de pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales cuentan con un poder que suele ser poco valorado por personas externas a… Read More »La importancia del consentimiento libre, previo e informado al trabajar con pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales: el caso de Costa Rica y las mujeres molusqueras de Chomes

By Amelia Arreguin, UNCBD Women’s Caucus Co-coordinator After almost four years of negotiations to develop the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (post-2020 GBF), the final balance of the OEWG-4 report is that the 196 Parties have not built a consensus on what should be the biodiversity… Read More »UNCBD Women’s Caucus Assessment of the 4th Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework