Dear Mountain Partnership members and friends,
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will take place in
Montreal, Canada from 7-19 December 2022. The conference will see the adoption of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The framework provides a strategic vision and a global roadmap for the conservation, protection, restoration and sustainable management
of biodiversity and ecosystems for the next decade.
Please see our messages for you:
1.
Planned mountain events
COP15 will include several side events related to mountain biodiversity:
·
Biodiversity Conservation Activities of Türkiye
– 13 December
·
Future Mountains in the post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
– 14 December
·
Celebrating International Year of Mountains - ensuring mountain
biodiversity protection within the post-2020 GBF implementation – 14 December
·
Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Eurasian
Biodiversity Hotspots – 15 December
·
Conservation of plant diversity in Belt and Road countries
– 15 December
More information can be found via these links:
COP15 and
COP15 side event schedule
If your government or organization is organizing an event/activity at COP15 that it is not in this list,
kindly
share details with us by 2 December 2022
to further align our members and maximize impact at COP15.
2.
Meeting with the CBD officer responsible for mountain biodiversity
Ms Jamal Annagylyjova has joined the CBD secretariat about a year ago and she is – among other responsibilities – in charge of mountain biodiversity. A meeting
will be organized with her during the COP – date to be confirmed. If you are at the COP please send an email to
[log in to unmask] so that you can be invited at this meeting – please specify your dates at the COP.
3.
Programme of work on mountain biodiversity
This CBD
programme of work launched on 2007 is inactive since many years. The parties can request that it is revitalized given the global relevance of mountain biodiversity. Please
include this request in your statement at the CBD COP.
Thank you.
With kind regards,
Rosalaura Romeo
Coordinator a.i.
Mountain Partnership Secretariat
International Year of Mountains 2022
FAO - Forestry Division

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