Forests & Biodiversity
Indigenous Women are the custodians of biodiversity and dependent on healthy forests and ecoystems…
HLPF 2017: Meena Bilgil’s Intervention as Lead Discussant on the Session on SDG5
"Key to transformation is empowerment of small-scale producers including women, youth, indigenous peoples, pastoralists and fishers, who will continue to make up the vast majority of food producer [...]
CBD-COP13: Isis Alvarez & Simone Lovera’s Intervention on Nuevos Tiempos para Mujeres en Conservación de Biodiversidad
Ha quedado cada vez más claro, que sin la participación de todos los actores involucrados, no es posible alcanzar los diferentes objetivos, como es el caso de la conservación de la biodiversidad. L [...]
COP 13: Convention on Biological Diversity
The thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will take place in Cancun, Mexico, from 4 - 17 December 2016. To read more about this Conference, p [...]
Co-Chair’s meeting: Protect and Restore Terrestrial Ecosystems and halt all Biodiversity Loss
We would like to see much more close linkages to poverty goal. This is because healthy ecosystems are the basis for people’s lives, particularly those living in poverty, providing essential goods a [...]
Analysis & key recommendations by the Women’s Major Group on Biodiversity
...forests and biodiversity and the policies to protect both must be discussed together and not be separated into two different topics as has been done in the TST Issues Briefs. Read the Women’s M [...]
Forest, Biodiversity and Rural and Indigenous Women’s Rights
Read Isis Alvarez’s (Global Forest Coalition, Colombia) combined position paper on Forests on behalf of the Women’s Major Group. “Forest are extremely diverse ecosystems on which [...]