Locally-led action key to delivering the new global biodiversity framework
For the past 18 months, biodiversity diplomacy has been focused on negotiating the new Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The draft text will be discussed at next week’s 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15). The decisions taken will seek to reset the world’s relationship with nature for the decade to come. It will be a milestone in global efforts to stop biodiversity loss and put nature on a path to recovery.
In this blog, Dilys Roe and Ebony Holland put forward the case that people and locally-led conservation efforts need to be at the centre of this transformation. Read their blog now.
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Spotlight: Connecting climate change and nature
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Save the date for D&C Days 2021
Development and Climate Days
Development and Climate Days (D&C Days) 2021 will take place from 9-10 November, and will see grassroots representatives, researchers, development practitioners and policymakers from all over the world discuss how to build a climate-resilient future for all.
Find out more and mark your calendar.
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Blog by Krystyna Swiderska
Why traditional knowledge and Indigenous Peoples’ rights must be integrated across the new global biodiversity targets
Biodiversity policymakers negotiating the new international framework at the upcoming global biodiversity summit must ensure traditional knowledge and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are integrated across all post-2020 targets aimed at saving the world’s biodiversity.
Read the blog now.
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Blog by Xiaoting Hou Jones
Locally-led nature-based solutions can deliver global leaders’ pledge
One year on from the launch of the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature – when political leaders committed to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 – Xiaoting Hou Jones, drawing on examples from the Least Developed Countries, sets out why locally-led nature-based solutions are indispensable for turning the pledge into action and delivering a green COVID-19 recovery.
Read the blog.
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Blog by Phil Franks
Does the Global Biodiversity Framework offer a plan B for protected areas?
Ahead of the recent IUCN World Conservation Congress, Phil Franks examined why – to date – strategies to halt biodiversity loss have largely failed, and discussed a way forward for protected areas and other forms of area-based conservation that is not only inclusive but also equitable.
Read the blog.
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Blog by Ebony Holland
Nature-based solutions: building blocks for green recovery and climate action in least developed countries
As international climate and biodiversity talks continue, Ebony Holland shares recent research outlining how nature-based solutions are being placed front and centre by Least Developed Countries.
Read her blog.
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Post-2020 Partnership
Post-2020 Partnership: transformative change for nature and people
IIED was an organising partner in the Post-2020 Partnership at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. This collaborative partnership of many of the world’s largest environment development NGOs and foundations plus several UN organisations and representatives of youth, Indigenous Peoples, local communities and the business sector, hosted six days of in-person and online events throughout the IUCN congress.
Read the outcome document (PDF) from the partnership.
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Our partners' perspectives
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EbA tools navigator
Tools for ecosystem-based adaptation now online
To help practitioners and policymakers identify appropriate tools for incorporating ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) into their climate adaptation plans, IIED, IUCN, UNEP-WCMC and GIZ have developed an "EbA Tools Navigator". The navigator features information on more than 230 EbA tools, methodologies and guidance documents: from planning, assessments, and implementation to monitoring and mainstreaming.
Take a look at the navigator on the Friends of EbA website.
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Guest blog by Angelique Pouponneau
A glimmer of hope ahead of COP26 – financing for adaptation
A newly formed group of champion countries committed to ramping up flows of adaptation finance brings promise – provided they can also improve access, explains guest blogger Angelique Pouponneau, CEO of Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT).
Read the guest blog.
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Make Change Happen podcast episode 13
Getting climate resilience right – the case for backing smallholder organisations
Forest and farm smallholders are fighting for their livelihoods and food security. New research shows producers’ practical measures for climate resilience have impact, but barriers remain to scaling the work up and out. The latest episode of the Make Change Happen podcast featuring IIED's Duncan Macqueen and Clare Shakya in discussion with Elizabeth Nsimadala - a smallholder farmer in Uganda and president of the Pan-African Farmers Organization (PAFO) - looks at what support smallholders need, and who should provide it.
Listen to the podcast.
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Projects and publications
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Project
Supporting a nature positive, equitable Global Biodiversity Framework
IIED is keen to ensure that the final post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that is negotiated by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is not just good for nature, but good for people too.
Find out more about what we're doing.
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Briefing paper
Global Biodiversity Framework: equitable governance is key
The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework currently being negotiated seeks to transform society’s relationship with biodiversity, including a much bigger role for protected and conserved areas. This briefing demonstrates that transformative change requires governance that is not only inclusive but also equitable, in terms of respect for rights, participation in decision making, transparency, rule of law, dispute resolution and sharing of costs and benefits.
Download the briefing.
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Issue paper, 44 pages
Innovative financing for Africa: harnessing debt for climate and nature
Africa is severely impacted by the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss. There is potential to address these crises through ‘general purpose’ debt financing linked to climate and nature KPIs. For severely indebted African countries this could be through debt-for-climate-and-nature conversion or swaps. For less debt distressed countries, the best instrument would be general-purpose performance bonds for climate and nature. There is growing demand for these instruments, but for this approach to succeed key African creditors including China and the private sector would need to engage, with support from the G20, UN, IMF, World Bank and African Development Bank.
Download the paper.
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Backgrounder
How good governance protects forests
‘Good governance’ is increasingly recognised as a factor contributing to improved protected area (PA) management and conservation outcomes. Yet how exactly governance at different levels supports or hinders successful PA management, and how this should be considered in conservation policy, planning and practice, remains insufficiently understood. This backgrounder considers how the quality of a country’s governance in general, and environmental governance in particular, may be a factor in influencing rates of deforestation in PAs in Africa.
Download the backgrounder.
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Briefing paper
Indigenous knowledge and values: key for nature conservation
Recent research with Indigenous Peoples in Peru, Kenya, India and China shows that Indigenous values and worldviews promote balance with nature and social equity. Strengthening Indigenous knowledge and values can lead to effective, locally owned, equitable and cost-effective conservation outcomes and contribute to global development goals. However, Indigenous knowledge and values face multiple threats. In advance of the CBD COP15, policymakers must fully integrate Indigenous knowledge and values across the new Global Biodiversity Framework.
Download the briefing.
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Toolkit, 75 pages
Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making
In 2020 governments from more than 80 countries signed a “Leaders Pledge for Nature”, committing to reversing biodiversity loss by 2030, and sending a united signal to step up global ambition for nature, climate and people. These commitments demonstrate that governments worldwide are recognising the interdependencies between the economy, society and biodiversity, and the importance of taking action. This toolkit provides a practical context analysis guide to improve understanding and strategy for the political challenge of integrating biodiversity information.
Download the toolkit.
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Case study, 59 pages
Nature-based solutions in action: lessons from the frontline
This report developed by members of the CAN-UK Nature-based Solutions Working Group highlights successful nature-based solutions (NbS) across a wide range of contexts. It also identifies seven common success factors that can ensure NbS is done well and points to seven key policy recommendations to support and spread high-quality NbS.
Download the paper.
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