COP15: The UN Biodiversity Conference

Date

07 - 19 December 2022

Location

Montreal, Canada

We know that degrading ecosystems could trigger a downward spiral of US$2.7 trillion in global Gross Domestic Product by 2030.

UNDP supports communities including indigenous people at every level, with new funding totaling $189 million to support more than 140 countries around the world to meet and implement their ambitious nature and biodiversity targets under the new Global Biodiversity Framework agreed at COP15, leveraging a nature portfolio of $3.2 billion across the continents.

Despite ongoing efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide, and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual. The loss of biodiversity comes at a great cost for human well-being and the global economy.

The UN Biodiversity Conference is the most significant conference on biodiversity in a decade. It will see the adoption of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The framework provides a strategic vision and a global roadmap for the conservation, protection, restoration and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems for the next decade.

UNDP Statement on the outcome of COP15

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) welcomes the historic agreement reached at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity today to agree a new plan to preserve and protect nature with the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). For our part, through the ‘UNDP Nature Pledge,’ together with the UN Environment Programme and other partners, we are committed to turning this blueprint into reality. We are ready for action. UNDP is there to deliver the systemic changes that can shift the needle on our nature crisis.

Read the full statement here

Schedule of Events:

Multi-day

Global Biodiversity Framework Early Action Support (GBF-EAS) help desk

7 - 15 December

All day, outside of 517A

Exhibition of biodiversity finance solutions from Thailand

7 - 19 December

All day, exhibition booth #501, Room 220AB

Wednesday, 7 December

GEF support to the development and implementation of Biodiversity Finance Plans

18:15-19:45

GRULAC Meeting Room, 511A-D

Tools and solutions for the implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF): enhancing synergies and cooperation

18:15-19:45

African Group Meeting Room, 511BE

Thursday, 8 December

SPACES coalition: The role of spatial planning in delivering on targets for climate and nature

13:15-14:45

African Group Meeting Room, 511BE

Georgia towards repurposing harmful agricultural subsidies and developing biodiversity-positive incentives

13:15-14:45

GRULAC Meeting Room, 511A-D

Alignment of financial flows: Channeling public and private investment towards nature

13:15-14:45

JUSCANZ Meeting Room, 510C

Friday, 9 December

Aligning finance and economic incentives towards biodiversity goals and targets, including environmentally harmful support

13:15-14:45

Youth Meeting Room, 513B

Egypt's contribution towards the adoption and implementation of the post-2020 GBF

13:15-14:45

Marie Khan Woman's Caucus Meeting Room, 513A

Saturday, 10 December

Post-2020 GBF: Chinese Business in Action

13:15-14:45

African Group Meeting Room, 511BE

Increasing the Nature Alignment of Global Finance

13:45-14:30

Place Quebec

Realizing the right to a healthy environment: UN system contributions to integrating human rights in biodiversity action

18:15-19:45

Business and Industry Organizations Meeting Room, 514A

Reform and practice of national parks and nature reserve system

18:15-19:45

China Pavilion

Sunday, 11 December

GBF Early Action Support - GEF Project-Inception Meeting

10:00-12:00

African Group Meeting Room, 511B

Sovereign debt for Nature: A mapping of feasibility for debt repurposing for nature-positive outcomes

10:15-11:45

Place Quebec

COP15 Youth and Community Engagement Festival: Changing the World – Campaigns for Conservation

13:00-14:00x

EVO Plaza Centre Ville

Invest in nature: High-level dialogue of partnership of biodiversity and finance

14:30-16:00

Finance Action Zone

Monday, 12 December

Multi-stakeholder participation in biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: exploration and practices

13:15-14:45

China Pavilion, #4400

Nature: the next frontier for finance (The Little Book and Into the Wild launch)

17:00-18:00

Ernst & Young Office

Tuesday, 13 December

Strengthen local biodiversity actions – practices and contributions from China

10:00-17:10

Cities Action Pavilion (Place Quebec）

Access and benefit sharing in Brazil: innovations of the new legislation and the National Management System for Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge – SisGen

13:15-14:45

Asia and the Pacific Meeting Room, 511C-F

Biodiversity conservation activities of Türkiye

13:15-14:45

Room Youth Meeting Room, 513B

Protecting Viet Nam's natural heritage while reducing threats to priority species and ecosystems of global and regional significance

13:15-14:45

Room 512E, Convention and Exhibition Centre

GEF Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group (IPAG) review of partnerships with Indigenous Peoples

16:00-17:30

GEF Pavilion

Business and Biodiversity Day Reception

18:00-21:00

Action Zone, 710B

Wednesday, 14 December

Finance and Biodiversity Day: VIP Breakfast

7:30-8:30

Action Zone, Room 710A

Finance and Biodiversity Day plenary 2:

Leveraging opportunities and overcoming challenges for financial flows alignment and resources mobilization - greening the finance and financing the green

10:30-11:30

Multipurpose Room 210A

From the Aichi Targets to the post-2020 GBF: expanding global partnerships to recognize the role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ territories and areas (ICCAs) for biodiversity conservation and human well-being

13:15-14:45

Side-event 2, 512F

Forest ecosystem restoration - a crucial piece of the new GBF

13:15-14:45

Youth Meeting Room, 513B

Finance and Biodiversity Day Breakout Session 1: Mainstreaming biodiversity within public policies - ongoing initiatives and achievements

14:30-15:30

Action Zone, Multipurpose Room 210A and Contact Room 230A

Finance and Biodiversity Day: Breakout Session 3: Developing nature-positive pathways to align financial flows - building on synergies with net zero pathways

15:45-16:45

Action Zone, Multipurpose Room 210A and Contact Room 230A

Innovative solutions that work: Sustainable financing

15:00-17:00

Nature Positive Pavilion

The integration of city and nature, the intersection of estuary and ocean

16:00-17:30

China Pavilion

GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) 30^th Anniversary

18:00-19.30

GEF Pavilion

Ecological civilization: Chinese approach for harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature

18:15-19:45

China Pavilion

Finance and Biodiversity Day Reception and launch of IKI TNFD Support Project

18:45-20:30

Action Zone, Room 710B

United for a decade of conservation action #ForCoral

19:00-21:00

InterContinental Hotel

Thursday, 15 December

High level segment opening plenary

10:00-13:00

High level segment plenary room, fifth floor at the Palais des Congrès

Innovations in coral reef finance

12:00-13:30

Le Westin Hotel

GEF support to implementation of the Nagoya Protocol

13:00-14:30

GEF Partnership Pavilion

United Nations heads of agencies dialogue: pledging commitments to implement the Common Approach to Biodiversity and the post-2020 GBF

16:30-18:00

Place Quebec

Unveiling the first Nature 4 Health investments for preventing pandemics together

18:15-19:45

Side-event 1, 512E

The launching of the phase 2 of the Japan Biodiversity Fund (JBF) and Japan’s contributions for the implementation of the post-2020 GBF

18:15-19:45

Side-event 2, 512F

Friday, 16 December

Forum on biodiversity and energy revolution

13:15-14:45

Side-event 1, 512E

10 years of Biodiversity Finance Plans – stories from the field

13:15-14:45

Asia and the Pacific Meeting Room, 511C-F

COMDEKS Phase 4: contribution of the Satoyama Initiative to the Post-2020 GBF

13:15-14:45

Business and Industry Organizations Meeting Room, 514A