ABBI presents Pre COP Australian Summit I The Road to the UN Biodiversity Conference
Wed, 23 June
|Online Summit
COP26 isn’t the only global environmental event happening in 2021. Register to hear how Australia is preparing for the “biodiversity COP"
Time & Location
23 June 2021, 8:30 am – 25 June 2021, 12:30 pm
Online Summit
About the event
2021 has been dubbed by environmental organisations as a ‘Super Year For Nature’ due to these major meetings and decision-making moments coinciding.
As a ‘sister’ conference to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 is being held from 11 to 24 October 2021, in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. It exists to ensure: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources.
This COP is the most important UN Biodiversity Conference in this decade as countries are expected to agree on a Post-2020 Global Framework for Biodiversity and new targets for protecting biodiversity. Business is also expected to play a new and expanded role in implementing key outcomes from the negotiations.On the domestic front…