Key highlights of the side-event organised by UNCBD Women’s Caucus and the Secretariat of the CBD during COP15 in Montreal, Canada.
To celebrate the International Day of Biological Diversity and to promote the gender-responsive implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework through grassroots women working towards this goal through restoration and biodiversity governance, Women4Biodiversity held the event “From Agreement to Action: Ways forward for gender equality and women’s rights in building back biodiversity” on 18 May 2023.
The Gender Program was a 2 day event organized by United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) Women’s Caucus and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat. It was held in the Auditorium of the “Palace Québec” on the 10 and 12 December 2022. The aim was to ensure that the Post- 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is Gender Responsive and has a Human Rights Based approach (HRBA) that highlights the importance of women in biodiversity.
CBD COP15 Event To kick off the series of events at the Women’s Hub at the Fifteenth Conference of the Meeting of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15) in Montreal, Canada, the Women4Biodiversity team launched policy briefs on gender at Palais… Read More »Women’s policy briefs for a gender-responsive biodiversity framework launched in Montreal
by Valeria Enderle, CAUCE Executive Director (CAUCE) and Ana Di Pangracio, FARN Deputy Director As part of the “Building resilience and weaving gender-responsive approaches to biodiversity governance” project, Women4Biodiversity aims to strengthen gender-responsive ecosystem restoration approaches in national goals and international commitments. The project, which… Read More »Wetlands restoration begins with meetings and needs assessment in Paraná City, Argentina
A Twitterchat conversationon gender and the post-2020 global biodiversity framework 13 June 2022 JOIN US on Twitter @Women4Biodiv 9 am UTC – 4 pm Bangkok 1 pm UTC – 4 pm Nairobi 5 pm UTC – 11 am Costa Rica RATIONALE Across different communities worldwide,… Read More »Twitterchat #GenderIsABiodiversityIssue
By Rhea Claire E. Madarang A stand-alone gender equality target in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework would fill the gender gaps of the previous ten-year framework for biodiversity action, said representatives from the Dominican Republic and the United Republic of Tanzania, both Parties to the… Read More »A stand-alone gender equality target in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will address previous framework’s gaps – Dominican Republic and Tanzania
Biodiversity Day Live Interviews22 May 2022 LIVE IN FACEBOOK bit.ly/Women4IDB2022 About the event On 22 May 2022, Women4Biodiversity will be holding live interviews (20-30 minutes) from select Parties supporting Target 22. One interview will be with Costa Rica, who proposed Target 22, and the other… Read More »Women Are In Our Shared Future
by Amelia Arreguin and Claire Madarang – Women4Biodiversity Associates Originally written and posted in Spanish for Reforestamos México HERE A human rights-based approach in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework is essential for both biodiversity and humanity – also part of biodiversity – to thrive. About… Read More »Human rights in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
Watch the event replay here. The first day of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meetings in Geneva witnessed not only the opening statements of Parties and observers but also the side event “Targeting Gender: Best Practices and Ways Forward.” It provided a platform to… Read More »Targeting Gender: Best Practices and Ways Forward
