Thread: Suspended: Convention on Biological Diversity--16th meeting of the COP

Convention on Biological Diversity: 16th meeting of the COP (Conference of Parties)

https://www.cbd.int/article/agreement-reached-cop-16

Summary:
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) was suspended in the morning of 2 November but not before countries agreed on an expanded role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in protecting biodiversity and on the groundbreaking operationalization of a new global mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital genetic information.

The strong results, built on a spirit of compromise, and dialogue, demonstrate that multilateralism can still achieve results in a fractious time. After almost 12 hours of meeting in the Plenary session, COP 16 lost quorum at roughly 9am and was suspended before the remaining agenda items could be considered for adoption.

COP 16 will resume at a later date and venue to complete the agenda.

What COP 16 has delivered:

• Cali Fund
• Strengthening the role of indigenous peoples and local communities
• Progress in addressing synthetic biology considerations
• Invasive Alien Species
• Biodiversity and climate change
• Capacity-building, technical and scientific cooperation and knowledge management
• EBSAs
• Sustainable Wildlife Management and Plant Conservation
• Biodiversity and Health
• Risk assessment

Pending items that the resumed session of COP 16 will address:

• Biodiversity finance, including a strategy for resource mobilization
• Monitoring framework: the yardsticks the world will use to measure progress.

Listen to related Post where Dane speaks about this at ~2:00
Global Alert News Weekly | GeoengineeringWatch
November 9, 2024, Episode #483
Hosted by Dane Wigington
https://www.alipac.us/f19/weekly-glo...ington-422093/