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“For all women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”"On this International Women’s Day, we at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity join the global call to promote equal rights, empowerment and opportunities for all women and girls.Almost three decades ago, the world came together to develop the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a visionary and widely endorsed blueprint for securing the rights of all women and girls. The Beijing Declaration has contributed to reshaping the global agenda, but its promise remains largely unfulfilled. Women and girls make up half of the world’s population, yet many still face gender-based discrimination, often depriving them of their rights and denying them a level playing field for access to opportunities. This is nothing less than a moral failing. But more than that: At a time when the world is grappling with a multi-pronged environmental crisis at planetary scale, we need all  t...

On 27 February 2025 COP 16 concluded in Rome with the successful completion of its resumed session. The outcomes of the resumed session completed what the Parties achieved in Cali, Colombia, before COP 16 was suspended on 2 November 2024 for lack of quorum.Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) reached agreements on biodiversity finance, the Planning, Monitoring, Reporting and Review (PMRR) mechanism, and the full set of indicators that will be used to measure global and national progress towards the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), which was adopted at COP 15 in 2022. “These days of work in Rome have demonstrated the commitment of the Parties to advance the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework.  The COP 16 presidency recognises the collective effort to reach consensus of key issues that were left pending in Cali” said Susana Muhamad, COP 16 President.  “We appreciate the willingness of ...

In a major development under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Cali Fund for the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits from the use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources (DSI) -- the Cali Fund’-- which will receive contributions from private sector entities making commercial use of DSI, launched today in Rome in the margins of the second day of the resumed session of COP 16 of the CBD at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  The Cali Fund will mobilize new streams of funding for biodiversity action worldwide, in support of the three objectives of the CBD: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources. Recognizing their role and contributions as custodians of biodiversity, 50 per cent of the resources of the Cali Fund will be allocated to the self-identified needs of indi...