The Rio Conventions Pavilion 2021-2022
With the world at a critical juncture, requiring immediate, urgent, and strengthened efforts to address the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation in order to ensure a sustainable future for people and planet, critical negotiations are being convened under the Conventions and GEF in 2021 and 2022.
These aim to raise the ambition of actions to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, to restore and maintain healthy landscapes, to establish a post-2020 global biodiversity framework that will halt the loss of biodiversity, and to agree an eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund that will strongly support these objectives.
The Rio Conventions Pavilion will play an important role in convening discussions aimed to build coordinated approaches and partnerships towards these interrelated, complementary and essential goals.
Launched at a virtual special event held on 14 October 2021 during the first part of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, a series of the Rio Conventions Pavilion will be held at the twenty-sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow, the second part of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Abidjan, the twenty-seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm el Sheikh, and at the second part of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada.
The Rio Conventions at 30
Source: Videography by Felipe Ruiz, Eath Negociations Bulletin (ENB), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Virtual Special Event of the Rio Conventions Pavilion
14 October 2021, 0700 EST, 1900 Kunming
Serving as a bridge between CBD COP 15 Part 1 and UNFCCC COP 26, the virtual special event will include insights from the Presidencies of these crucial global summits, the Executive Secretaries of the three Conventions and the Chief Executive Officer of the GEF, emphasizing the opportunities for coordinated action that can put the world on a path to land degradation neutrality, carbon-neutrality, halting the loss of biodiversity, living in harmony with nature, and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Restoring Balance With Nature
Today, we need nature to survive. Protecting and restoring nature can help drive a green recovery and prevent future pandemics. Investing in nature-based solutions will allow us to build forward better, greener, healthier, stronger, and more sustainably.
The three Rio Conventions (CBD, UNCCD and UNFCCC) are joining forces to ensure that each and every one of us takes action in their own environment in order to change the course of the world to restore balance with nature.
It is now widely recognized that climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity are interconnected. Maintaining and restoring healthy ecosystems plays a key role in adapting to and mitigating climate change.
In 1992, the Earth Summit established three Rio Conventions: the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The Rio Conventions Pavilion (RCP) is a platform for raising awareness and sharing information about the latest practices and scientific findings linking biodiversity, climate change, and sustainable land management.
Read more about the Rio Conventions
History of the Rio Conventions
Linkages between the Rio Conventions
UNCCD, CBD and UNFCCC Joint Liaison Group
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