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COP15 POST-MATCH ANALYSIS – HOW CAN THE NEW GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK BE A TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT FOR NATURE AND PEOPLE?

News The science is clear; biodiversity is in free fall. Indigenous peoples and local communities have been experiencing and denouncing the loss of biological and cultural diversity. This impacts billions of people’s daily well-being in untold ways. It is widely recognized...  Read more »
2023-02-02

Ecosystem-based Adaptation and the successful implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

News The EbA and SDGs Working Group of the Friends of EbA (FEBA), coordinated by  SwedBio and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), have been working on a technical paper, to publish at the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF)...  Read more »
2022-07-13

Getting serious about adopting a human rights-based approach in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)

Brief The global aim of ‘living in harmony with nature’ – being agreed by governments from around the world this week, at the UN in Geneva1 – can only be achieved by including strong human rights protections for the guardians of...  Read more »
2022-03-13

Indigenous futures thinking – changing the narrative and re-building based on re-rooting: A process of joint exploration with communities

News UPDATE: Now available in English and French ‘Futures thinking’ is a powerful tool to better understand and deal with an uncertain future. It includes visioning, building scenarios and storytelling, among other things. However, Indigenous peoples and local communities’ futures thinking...  Read more »
2021-10-01