The Rio Conventions Pavilion Journey 2023
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.
These aim to raise the ambition of actions to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, to restore and maintain healthy landscapes, to align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework that will attempt to halt the loss of biodiversity, and to use the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund to 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.
Joint Statement of the Presidents
For the first time, the Presidents of the last Conference of Parties (COP) of the three Rio Conventions have decided to join forces. With three weeks to go before the opening of COP28 in Dubai, the Presidents:
- Underlined the urgency of the situation and the inextricable links between climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity;
- Called for a coordinated approach both at international and national levels to tackle these issues in a holistic way;
- Pleaded for more cooperation between the three Conventions and their secretariats;
- And asked for urgent, concrete measures to protect the world population, environment, lands and biodiversity to ensure a sustainable future for new generations.
The Rio Conventions at 30
Source: Videography by Felipe Ruiz, Eath Negociations Bulletin (ENB), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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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