10% milestone reached 🎉🥳: In the last year, #MPAs coverage increased by around 1% to 9.75%. With most recent designations in 🇨🇱 & 🇧🇷, we should have surpassed the 10% Milestone (& thus reached former Aichi Target) 🕺💃. #OceanOptimism #30x30 #COP17
Gerne Meeresschutz, starke Stimme im @bundestag.de geben und @steffi-lemke.de unterstützen, diesen einzufordern. Sagt Bescheid, wenn ich helfen kann. 🌊🐳@blueactionfund.org #OceanOptimism #COP17
Nearly two-thirds of the UN CBD Parties have submitted their 7th National Reports by the 28th of February!
🌍 Based on the overall reported development, the first global review of progress under the #KMGBF will be prepared and presented during #COP17 this October.
#Science4Biodiversity
7ᵉ rapport national sur la biodiversité du Canada : trop peu de progrès pour une mise en œuvre transformatrice
Le #Canada a publié son rapport national, servant de référence pour l’évaluation mondiale du Cadre Kunming-Montréal à l’occasion de la #COP17.
Résultats ⬇️
Three women and three men wearing business clothes stand and smile while posing for a photo in a meeting room.
IISD is working with the #COP17 Presidency to help turn ambition into action.
Our President and CEO @patriciafuller.bsky.social was pleased to meet with Armenia's Environment Minister and President-Designate of COP 17 during his visit to Montreal yesterday.
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125 Parties have submitted their 7th National Reports under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
These reports provide key information on national progress to implement the #KMGBF and will inform the global review of progress at #COP17 in Yerevan.
🔗 www.cbd.int/article/2026...
Last chance to register for CO-OP4CBD’s two-day training session for civil society organisations ahead of #COP17!
Save the date:
📆22-23 April| 📍Paris, France
Register here: framaforms.org/save-the-dat...
#Science4Biodiversity
👏 CO-OP4CBD is organising a two-day training session for civil society organisations interested in UN CBD processes ahead of #COP17 in Armenia.
Save the date:
📆22-23 April| 📍Paris, France
Register here: framaforms.org/save-the-dat...
#Science4Biodiversity
CO-OP4CBD is organising a two-day training session for civil society organisations interested in #UNCBD processes ahead of #COP17 in Armenia.
Save the date:
📆22-23 April| 📍Paris, France
Register here: framaforms.org/save-the-dat...
At #SBI6, Parties to the CBD reached broad agreement on key enablers for implementing the #KMGBF including finance, gender equality, capacity-building, and cooperation — paving the way toward #COP17 and the first global review of progress.
Press release👇
www.cbd.int/doc/press/20...
At #SBI6, Parties are advancing cooperation across conventions and international organizations – strengthening coherence and collective action to support implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ahead of the first global review at #COP17.
#InternshipOpportunity
@unbiodiversity.bsky.social is seeking an Intern to support work with indigenous peoples and local communities in the lead-up to #COP17.
📍 Montreal or remote
🗓️ Apply by 7 March
⏳ 6 months (unpaid)
Apply 👉 careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
#UNCareers #Internship #ForNature
Last night the #COP17 Armenian incoming presidency held an information session. They say they want to move from rhetoric to real action, and that they want to make it an inclusive Conference of Parties with full engagement of Indigenous People and Local Communities, women, youth and, civil society!🌳
At #SBI6, Parties are examining how national targets and biodiversity strategies align with the global ambition of the #KMGBF – a critical step toward the first global review of progress at #COP17
Follow us during SBI-6 in Rome 👉https://cbd.int/conferences/rome-2026
At #SBI6, Parties are advancing discussions on resource mobilization – strengthening finance, capacity, knowledge and tools needed to implement the #KMGBF and close the global biodiversity finance gap ahead of #COP17.
Follow us during SBI-6 in Rome 👉https://cbd.int/conferences/rome-2026
📅 Wed 18 Feb | 17:45 CET
📍 @fao.org HQ & Online
Take part in the High-Level Roundtable “Agrifood systems taking action for nature”, organized with @unbiodiversity.bsky.social and the Presidency of #COP17Armenia
Join the momentum toward stronger #Biodiversity action on the road to #COP17!
#SBI6
At #SBI6, the focus is on implementation – turning global commitments under the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into real action on the ground, ahead of the first global review of progress at #COP17.
Follow us during SBI-6 in Rome 👉https://cbd.int/conferences/rome-2026
#KMGBF
#Environment: What's Up in #GENeva from 16-22 Feb?
✅ Env't @ Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
✅ Road to #UNBiodiversity #COP17
✅ #ExtremeWeather
✅ Strengthening #Multilateralism
✅ Env't Awards
✅ #GreenWinter
✅ & more
Check events, #jobs, suggestions ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN16-22Feb26
Effective biodiversity action must be inclusive.
At #SBI6 in Rome, Parties to the CBD are considering the midterm review of the Gender Plan of Action 2023–2030, advancing Target 23 of the #KMGBF and informing the first global review at #COP17.
From global ambition to national action.
At #SBI6, Parties will consider an analysis of NBSAPs and national targets ahead of the first global review of collective progress at #COP17. This will assess how national ambition aligns with the #KMGBF.
#GlobalReview #UNBiodiversity
🗓️Next week's events in #SustainableDevelopment
🐅 16-19 Feb | 6th Meeting of @unbiodiversity.bsky.social Subsidiary Body on Implementation | Italy
To review implementation of #CBD ahead of #COP17
🔗 www.cbd.int/events
🌊 22-27 Feb | Ocean Sciences Meeting | Scotland
🔗 www.agu.org/ocean-scienc...
At a critical moment for implementation, #SBI6 advances discussions and enablers for translating global biodiversity commitments into national action, building momentum toward #COP17.
🔗 SBI-6 in Rome: cbd.int/conferences/...
Looking forward to #HRC61, Benjamin Schachter highlights the upcoming report of the High Commissioner on human rights and #biodiversity to help inform @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #COP17 in Yerevan, #Armenia.
Taking Action for Nature 🦋
This year, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will convene in Yerevan, Armenia, from 19 - 30 October, to move decisively from commitments to implementation and accelerate collective efforts for #biodiversity.
#COP17 logo unveiling 👉 tinyurl.com/whjz88xj
At #CRIC23 ChildFund Alliance members reinforced a clear message: land degradation is a children’s
rights issue. As countries prepare for #COP17, land restoration & drought action must protect
children’s futures—and include their voices. childfundalliance.org/blog/2026/01...
#climatejustice
📜 Last week, IUCN and UNCCD signed an MoU to enhance cooperation leading up to UNCCD #COP17. The IUCN Forest and Grasslands Team, is proud to have worked with UNCCD to develop this MoU and enhance support for #rangelands, #drylands, and #grasslands, and the people who depend on these ecosystems.
The #COP17 logo has been unveiled, alongside the slogan “Taking Action for Nature” 🦋
Inspired by a butterfly endemic to Armenia, its colours reflect the 23 targets of the #KMGBF and the shared responsibility to act for biodiversity.
Discover more: www.cbd.int/article/COP1...
Mongolia is preparing to host @unccd.bsky.social #COP17 next year in beautiful Ulaanbaatar.
Pleased to meet Batbaatar Bat, Mongolia's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, at #UNEA7 to discuss COP priorities so we can all be #UNited4land.
@unep.org looks forward to supporting 🇲🇳 #COP17.
Next year Armenia will host @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #COP17 - a key moment to review progress on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Pleased to meet Hambardzum Matevosyan, Minister of Environment of Armenia, at #UNEA7 with @astridschomaker.bsky.social to discuss plans.
THE ROAD TO ARMENIA COP17: OFFICIAL UNVEILING OF THE UN 2026 BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE #COP17 #UNCBD #ArmeniaCOP17 #MOP12
