Indigenous Peoples and local communities play a central role in biodiversity conservation and the safeguarding of traditional knowledge. This has been explicitly recognized in the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework and COP-16 represents a crucial opportunity to ensure that such commitments are upheld
- the EU's international role | international cooperation
- Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (CEST)
- Brussels, Belgium
Practical information
- When
- Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (CEST)
- Where
- InfoPointBrussels, Belgium
- Languages
- English
- Organisers
- International Partnerships InfoPoint
Description
The InfoPoint conference will focus on the crucial opportunity presented by COP-16 and the recognition of the contribution of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The GBF recognizes IPs and LCs as crucial partners in conservation and language across several GBF targets includes respect of their rights, also to land, territories and natural resources. The conference will showcase IP and LC contributions to the GBF and underline their centrality to its achievement. It will include interventions from Joji Carino, a senior policy advisor for FPP and a member of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), from Gladys Warigia, leading community-led conservation projects with the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association. It will include an intervention from Eva Hershaw, from the International Land Coalition (ILC) on a proposed indicator under GBF Target 22 to monitor land use and tenure in Indigenous and Traditional territories, and it will include reflections from Ward Anseeuw, senior land policy officer at FAO, about the importance of IP and LC land tenure to the Rio Conventions beyond COP-16. The conference will provide concrete guidance to EC divisions on how to approach these topics in multilateral spaces and national interventions, it will include the sharing of available resources as well as concrete examples of local-led conservation of biodiversity in communities
Speakers
- Etienne Coyette, Policy Officer, INTPAF3- Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries
- Eva Hershaw, Data and Land Monitoring Lead, ILC
- Joji Carino, Senior Policy Advisor, FPP
- Gladys Warigia, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
- Ward Anseeuw, Senior Land Tenure Officer, FAO
Language: English
Q&A session languages: English
Registration
Register for onsite participation at the InfoPoint premises
Register for online participation to the Webex meeting (Webex link will be communicated upon registration)
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