How Can We Better Protect and Promote Human Rights in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework? | High-Level Panel

Dec 8, 2021  14:00 - 15:30

(GMT +1:00)

Event URL:  https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/high-level-biodiversity-and-human-rights-panel/
Hosted by: Global Youth Biodiversity Network

This high-level event, co-convened by Forest Peoples Programme, Swedbio, the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN), IUCN, Women 4 Biodiversity, and the Geneva Environment Network aims at drawing attention to the importance of human rights in the Global Biodiversity Framework prior to the final face-to-face negotiations of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Respecting and protecting human rights and protecting the environment are inextricably linked, as recently confirmed by the Human Rights Council resolution 48/13 on the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Yet while Heads of State from 88 countries have called to end siloed thinking in the Leaders Pledge for Nature, and global civil society has stated the same in no uncertain terms, environmental policy making still too often excludes or side-lines human rights. This Panel will reflect on the important opportunity of changing this history in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Global Biodiversity Framework to be adopted early in 2022, and bringing human rights into the new framework both as a guide to do no harm, and as a beacon for ways to do things better. Specific opportunities to realise this will be presented by speakers.