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Side events are organized

• at the COP venue (Blue zone)
• in the Green zone in Cali itself

Below is a list of side events, both in the Blue and Green Zone. Please contact us if your event is missing here.

Monday, 21 October

Business, Biodiversity and Finance: Peace or Conflict with Nature?

CBD Alliance - Monday, 21 October, 13:20 - Blue Zone: Chiribiquete, Asia and the Pacific room

In this side event, we will evaluate the different proposals made by businesses and other actors with vested interests to contribute to Peace with Nature.

Do climate and biodiversity offsets and credits, bioenergy, synthetic biology, and gene drives  contribute to peace between humans, and between humanity and nature? Or will they lead to more conflict?
How can the CBD protect IPs/LCs, women, youth, and small farmers and fishers who generate, restore and protect biodiversity and feed millions without destructive impacts on biodiversity? And how should finance be transformed so that it contributes to true peace with Nature?

Biodiversity Offsets and Credits: examining risks and challenges

Tuesday, 22 October

Gender-responsive and Rights-based Approach to Halt Biodiversity Loss: Peoples’ Solutions to Save the Planet

Side event - Tuesday, 22 October - Global Forest Coalition

Wednesday, 23 October

Women’s Land, Coastal and Water Rights: From Global Commitments to Local Actions

CBD Women Caucus | ILC | ICCA Consortium | and others - Wednesday, 23 October, 11:40 - Blue Zone: Cocuy, Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room

Breaking Ground on Youth Indicators for Biodiversity

GYBN | UNESCO - Wednesday, 23 October, 15:00 - Blue Zone: Mavecure, Business and Industry Organizations room

Climate geoengineering and biodiversity - why the CBD needs to affirm precaution

ETC Group | HBF | TWN | IEN | CIEL | CoA  - Wednesday, 23 October, 16:30 - Blue Zone: Cano Cristales, CEE room

Current guidance on risk assessment with focus on gene drive organisms is unfit for purpose

Thursday, 24 October

Look Before We Leap: Why the CBD Needs Horizon Scanning, Monitoring and Assessment

EcoNexus | ETC Group | CBD Women Caucus - Thursday, 24 October, 15:00 - Blue Zone: Sanquianga, GRULAC

Biodiversity and Climate Change: when policies collide

FOE | ECONEXUS - Thursday, 24 October, 15:00 - Blue Zone: Paramos, NGO room

Incentives for Target 22: Spotlighting Investor-ready Youth-led Solutions Towards Effective Implementation of the Biodiversity Plan in Africa

Friday, 25 October

Monday, 28 October

Regulating Finance - A precondition to implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework

Monday, 28 October, 7:30-9:00 - Forests & Finance Coalition - Green zone, Banco de Bogotá, Main Auditorium

Why development banks must stop financing factory farming

Green zone - Monday, 28 October - Stop Financing Farming Coalition, Global Forest Coalition

Tuesday, 29 October

Wednesday, 30 October

Thursday, 31 October

date and time to be confirmed

Can KM-GBF stop Biodiversity Loss? The Challenges and Opportunities

Blue zone event - tbc - Global Forest Coalition

Achieving the KM-GBF Targets Through Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF)Youth Participation

Implementation of the SSF Guidelines and a Human Rights-Based Approach towards Coastal and Marine Conservation

tbc - Side event - tbc - CoopeSoliDar, ICSF and the SSF movements

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Press conference - Time and date: tbc - Global Justice Ecology Project

Material: https://stopgetrees.org/open-letter/

Issue 1

• Glbbale Biodiversity Outlook 4
• ICCAs & Aichi Targets
• Little progress, conflict of interests & unabated unintentional transboundary movements
• The EU at COP 13, 14, 15...

Issue 2

• IIFB Opening Statement
• Incentives for subsidy reform
• The World is not on track to stop the loss of biodiversity
• Synthetic biology: Make or break for the CBD?
• How to integrate biodiversity into the “real” global agenda?

Issue 3

• Precaution and Prevention Action to address IAS effectively
• NBSAPs - the hard way
• 500 years versus 3 days: Mount Gariwang must be protected

Issue 4

• Synthetic Biology: one of the statements that Civil Society was not allowed to make yesterday
• World Bank’s Business Indicators Threaten Biodiversity
• Biodiversity & sustainable development
• Bring Agriculture back into the CBD!
• Same word, two distinct legal contexts: What does “non-discriminatory” mean for Compliance in the Nagoya Protocol?

Issue 5

• Protected Areas, Indigenous Territories and ecosystem conservation and restoration
• Nuclear Energy; New Threats to Biodiversity
• Lake Victoria Basin: A message to policy makers
• Forests: out of the radar
• The role of collective action in the conservation of biodiversity
• Biofuels and Biodiversity

Issue 6

• Nagoya Protocol: a milestone - but still far from the finish line to stop biopiracy
• The Business Of Looking After Business Interests
• Dodo Award
• Global Multilateral Benefit Sharing Mechanism still stuck at “need” debate
• Who is steering the bus?
• Sendenyu - A Success Story of Indigenous Community Initiative towards Conservation

Issue 7

• Mainstreaming is not an easy task
• Tourism & Biodiversity
• Applause for Wise Decision on Biodiversity in Garorim Bay
• 2014 Pyeongchang Buddhist Declaration for Life-Peace
• The 2014 Captain Hook 2.0 Awards For Syn Bio Piracy

Issue 8

• The Pyeongchang Roadmap to Destruction
• India’s Delegation of Two Reflects Home Reality
• Invasive alien species problem in Japan
• Song for ICCA Pongso no Tao

Issue 9

• What will be your next steps to protect biodiversity?
• Racing to the bottom: the fate of a mountain
• Resource Mobilisation

Issue 10

• GE trees in Brazil – Will a party to the CBD disregard COP decision IX/5 (1)?
• Not enough focus on Agriculture and Small Farmers’ Rights will hurt mainstreaming!
• Keep agriculture, forestry and fisheries on the agenda!
• ig wall in front of marine and coastal management in host countries of CBD

Issue 1

• Civil society concerns and aspirations for SBSTTA
• Synthetic and GE algae for biofuels?
• Synthetic Biology: “Extreme Genetic Engineering” threatens biodiversity and livelihoods

Issue 2

• Geoengineering
• New and emerging industry roadblocks to discussion
• Billions of GM mosquitoes released without proper scrutiny

Issue 3

• EBSAs & Traditional Knowledge
• Aichi Target 3 on perverse incentives and indicators
• GM Eucalyptus: Brazil considers authorizing GM Trees in contravention of COP9 Decision
• Five short reflections on civil society engagement
• Risks and benefits from synthetic biology: A plea for the precautionary principle