CO-OP4CBD

🗓️ Save the date: The next in-person CO-OP4CBD training and networking session will take place in Málaga, Spain between 18 and 20 November 2025! 💚 The topic will be Technical and Scientific Cooperation (TSC) and the Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) in the context of the UN's Convention for Biological Diversity (UN CBD). 🏛️ Two of our institutional partners, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences are the co-organisers of this event with the support of the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation. 🌟 If you are a European TSC stakeholder/practitioner, a CHM National Focal Point or an expert otherwise affiliated with the UN CBD's TSC processes, don't miss this opportunity to engage with leading experts in meaningful knowledge exchanges. ✍ Register here: https://lnkd.in/dW7fC_ft 👀 Find out more about the event: https://lnkd.in/dGRWRuUW ❗ Please note: The travel, accommodation and meal expenses of the selected participants will be covered by the CO-OP4CBD project. #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

🔦Today, we bring you more speaker highlights from our upcoming SBSTTA-27 online trainings next week! 🗣️Kim Grützmacher is a Head of the Division for International Nature Conservation at Bundesamt für Naturschutz - Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Join her on 03 September in a session on the interface between biodiversity and health. 🗣️Linn Appelgren is a senior adviser at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and will be joining SBSTTA-27 as an expert in the Swedish #UNCBD delegation. The topic in focus during her session on 05 September will be the scientific and technical needs on the road to implementing the #KMGBF. 👀 More information on all our SBSTTA-27 trainings can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dn4uSivf #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

👉 Looking forward to SBSTTA-27? If you want to navigate the agenda of this crucial international forum with ease, join CO-OP4CBD's online training sessions next week! 🧠 Between 1 and 5 September, experts from across the European science-policy landscape will bring you the most topical and relevant insights into the subjects shaping SBSTTA's proceedings this year. We are pleased to present two of our distinguished speakers: 🗣️ Coline Léandre is a project officer in the European and International Coordination Division at Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité. On 1 September, she will be discussing matters related to the Work Programme of IPBES. 🗣️ Juliette Landry serves as a Senior Research Fellow at IDDRI and will be zeroing in on the collective progress in the implementation of the #KMGBF in a training session on 3 September. 👀 Watch our page for more speaker announcements tomorrow and find out how to join all the sessions: https://lnkd.in/dn4uSivf #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

A new commentary article titled, "Towards high-integrity biodiversity credits: balancing commensurability, ecological complexity and governance" has just been published, highlighting the need for systemic transparency and regulatory oversight. The work was led by IFB Theme leader Prof. Franziska Schrodt, and IFB Fellow, Dr Eun Hye Kim, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, the Institute for Management Development (IMD), and the University of Lausanne. The paper reviews 11 major biodiversity credit suppliers against six integrity criteria defined by the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits. Results show an average score of 2 out of 3, with strengths in scientific grounding of metrics but notable weaknesses in verifiable outcomes, particularly relating to the independence of third-party validation and verification, and transparency in risk disclosure. #infinbio #biodiversity #finance #IAPBC #biodiversitycredits https://lnkd.in/e3q6dG7K

⭐This year's Alternet conference hosted a number of insightful sessions that facilitated important discussions on the future of biodiversity. 👀Read on for a recap of one of them, a reflective dialogue on transformative change: #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

This week, UN Biodiversity joined the Atlantic Forest Conference in Brazil — a landmark pre-#COP30 event hosted by the Government of the state of Paraná and organized in collaboration with several Brazilian sub-national governments. The conference underscored the importance of regional cooperation in implementing global biodiversity and climate goals, including #Target3 and #Target12 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF. We engaged with sub-national governments and local authorities, representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities, and environmental leaders with a view to strengthening local action in support of the implementation of the #KMGBF in Brazil—a mega biodiverse country and host of #COP30. At the conference, governors from seven states in Brazil’s South and Southeast regions came together to sign the Curitiba Charter, a formal commitment to protect and sustainably manage the Atlantic Forest — a biome that spans 17 states.

📢 The European Commission featured a number of CO-OP4CBD's partners from the #TransformativeChange Cluster of EU-funded projects in a recent public output! 📜 A brochure by EU Science, Research and Innovation listed more than 40 initiatives striving towards #TransformativeChange4Biodiversity. 🤝BioAgora Project, BIONEXT Project, BIOTraCes, EU BIOTRAILS, BIOVALUE project, PLANET4B Project, RainforestHEU; TCforBE Project and TRANSPATH Project, were among our Cluster collaborators highlighted in the publication. 👀 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dZ6hnN7A #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet

🙌 We are honoured to be supporting this crucial regional dialogue in the context of the #UNCBD European Subregional Technical and Scientific Cooperation Support Centre! 🌐 In the coming weeks, look out for more information on the hybrid event, which will take place between 23 and 25 September, on the website of the European Commission's Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity. #Biodiversity #ForNature #ForOurPlanet