Screenshot: CBD Live on YouTube
Montreal, Canada hosts the 15th Biodiversity COP – cbd.int/meetings/COP-15 – December 5-17 with the theme “Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth.” Delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Hashtags: #COP15, #SBSTTA, #Post2020
The first part of the meetings took place virtually from October 11-15, 2021, with the second part reconvening in face-to-face meetings in Montreal, Canada. The event was scheduled to take place in Kunming, China.
Planeta.com is updating this guide to the event, making requests of the organizers and participants, and creating a communication challenge for allies around the globe during and after the event.
Key Links
cbd.int
2021-2022
COP-15
Slogan Contest
Virtual Tables
cbd.int/sbstta24
Post 2020 Strategic Timeline
Facebook – Events
YouTube – CBD Live Playlist – NGO Forum – Montreal Forums
Questions // Preguntas
- Are relevant publications available online? // ¿Hay publicaciones relevantes disponibles en línea?
- Who is publishing stories about the Biodiversity COP? // ¿Quién publica historias sobre la COP de Biodiversidad?
- Are there livestreaming and recorded videos? // /¿Hay transmisiones en vivo y videos grabados?
- How is COP15 different from COP14, 13, 12, 11 // ¿En qué se diferencia la COP15 de las COP14, 13, 12, 11?
- How does the event attend to and amplify interests and voices of Indigenous peoples? // ¿Cómo atiende y amplifica el evento los intereses y las voces de los pueblos indígenas?
- Is anyone recapping the videos from CBD Live? // ¿Alguien está resumiendo los videos de CBD Live?
- What would locals like others know about the event’s home city / country? // ¿Qué pedirían las personas locales que otros supieran sobre la ciudad o el país donde se realizará el evento?
- What is an ecological civilization? / ¿Qué es una civilización ecológica?
Communication Challenge
For those attending the event, please share photos and video, including presentations, press conferences, and information boards and tables.
For those paying attention to the event, please share links to stories, photos, videos, and the deep dive resources and recommended reading.
Headlines
Beyond Montreal: six months after deal to halt biodiversity loss, where are we?
The world has a new plan to save nature. Here’s how it works — and how it could fail.
Nearly every country on Earth just agreed to protect 30 percent of the planet
Nations reach landmark biodiversity treaty
Explainer: What the world’s nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal
Cop15 Negotiators Are Barely Even Mentioning the Ocean
World leaders are racing to protect nature — but the definition of one word is tripping them up
What does ‘nature positive’ mean – and can it rally support to stop biodiversity loss? – Guardian
Three ways Cop15 can help save a million species from extinction – Guardian
‘We are at war with nature’: UN environment chief warns of biodiversity apocalypse – Guardian
The road to Cop15: Humans v nature — our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction
Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss – Conversation
World leaders have 2 weeks to agree on a plan to save nature
‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature? – Guardian
Essential reading – Guardian
What is Cop15 and why does it matter for all life on Earth?
Explainer: COP15, the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade – Under the Banyan @shanahanmike
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs – Guardian
Montreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity loss
COP15: UN biodiversity summit moved from China to Canada – BBC
COP15: Canada to replace China as venue for UN biodiversity summit
‘Sleepwalking through extinction’: China urged to end delays to Cop15 summit
What really happened at Geneva’s crucial biodiversity negotiations?
UN biodiversity talks fail to agree on new targets to protect wildlife – New Scientist
Biodiversity: Pressure grows for deal to save nature – BBC
Major UN biodiversity summit delayed for third time due to pandemic
The case against the concept of biodiversity – Clare Fieseler/Vox @ClareFieseler
Recommended Listening
BBC Inside Science: Biodiversity – The UN Convention on Biological Diversity summit, currently taking place in Montreal Canada, intends to develop ways of reducing the global loss of biological diversity by drawing up a series of international commitments to help humanity to live more harmoniously with nature. The scientific evidence paints a grim picture of species decline and extinction, pollution and destruction of natural habitats. The aim of the meeting is to find ways to stop and even reverse such decline.
Elizabeth Mrema, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
Inger Andersen Executive Director of UN Environment Programme
Indigenous leaders Viviana Figueroa and Lakpa Nuri Sherpa
Scientists Professor Sandra Diaz from the University of Cordoba and Dr Marla Emery Scientific Advisor with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
News from the UN
cbd.int/article/new-dates-cop15-virtual-2021-facetoface-2022
Misc
Edinburgh Declaration for subnational governments, cities and local authorities on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework – @4Post2020BD
IISD
December 4
COP Biodiversity Bingo
Biodiversity – China – Climate – Extinction – FPIC – Indigenous – Livestreaming – Mainstreaming – Protected Planet – Public-Facing – Sustainability
Previously
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