Earth Negotiations Bulletin

At #COP17Armenia, Working Group holds lengthy deliberations on CRPs on #biodiversity and agriculture, forest biodiversity CRPs available at: www.cbd.int/conferences/... @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction

At #COP17Armenia high-level segment, @unbiodiversity.bsky.social's Astrid Schomaker stressed our shared responsibility to achieve the #KMGBF targets, called for embedding #biodiversity in the decisions that shape our economy @astridschomaker.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction

We need all Multilateral Environmental Agreements – on climate, biodiversity, land or pollution – to work together, towards our common and interwoven goals, @unep.org's Inger Andersen said at #COP17Armenia High-level Segment @ingerandersen.bsky.social @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

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High-level Segment opens at #COP17Armenia Deliberations continue on: 🌿 financial mechanism 🌿 Article 8(j) on #Indigenous Peoples and local communities 🌿 @ipbes.net 🌿 synthetic biology 🌿 budget @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction

#COP17Armenia Sustainable Ocean Night The UK announced a new investment package of more than USD 10 million into the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, expected to help mobilize at least USD 50 million in additional finance. ➡️ enb.iisd.org/targets-tran...

Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (@UNEP ), stressed the need to find ways to finance ocean action, and highlighted the UNEP State of Nature Financing 2026.

COP 17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan, Minister of Environment, Armenia, called for cooperation between the CBD and the BBNJ Agreement.

Sangkil Lee, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Republic of Korea, and Director of the Coordination Division of the Preparatory Office for the fourth UN Ocean Conference to be held in June 2028 in Busan, stressed that as our Ocean acts as one, so must our action.

Grethel Aguilar, Director-General, IUCN, stressed the need to demonstrate that the commitments made towards ocean protection are translated into action.

#COP17Armenia Transformative Action for Nature: Advancing ASEAN Partnerships for the ASEAN Biodiversity Plan and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ➡️ enb.iisd.org/events/trans...

Titiek Setyawati, Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and Biodiversity Specialist, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia, noted that her department is working to strengthen capacities to identify and manage IAS in the country and in the region at large.

Rashyid Redza Anwarudin, Chief Sustainability Officer, SD Guthrie, stressed the need for partnerships to strengthen biodiversity action, including with civil society and IPLCs.

#COP17Armenia Transformative Action for Nature: Advancing ASEAN Partnerships for the ASEAN Biodiversity Plan and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ➡️ enb.iisd.org/events/trans...

Jerome L. Montemayor, Executive Director, ASEAN Center for Biodiversity, underscored the need to empower Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs), women and youth to achieve the ASEAN Biodiversity Plan.

Ernesto D. Adobo, Jr., Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Philippines and ASEAN 2026 Chair, asked delegates to consider the value nature creates for our economies and people, and stressed the world needs a decade of delivery, saying ASEAN's time to lead is now.

#COP17Armenia Transformative Action for Nature: Advancing ASEAN Partnerships for the ASEAN Biodiversity Plan and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ➡️ enb.iisd.org/events/trans...

Participants considered how to advance the Association of South-East Asian Nations' (ASEAN) partnerships for the ASEAN Biodiversity Plan and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

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#COP17Armenia Positions remained polarized on various elements of the Multilateral Mechanism on digital sequence information on genetic resources, including the Cali Fund. @unbiodiversity.bsky.social ➡️ enb.iisd.org/un-biodivers...

#COP17Armenia Women at the Interfaces: Connecting Knowledge, Practice and Biodiversity Governance ➡️ enb.iisd.org/women-interf...

Ruth Spencer, Community Leader, Antigua and Barbuda, shared her partnership with the Building Bridges Hub, which is documenting her work as a community leader, underlining that global synergies start at the local level.

Yolanda López Maldonado, Founder and CEO, Indigenous Science, spoke about the Women in Water Diplomacy Network working on transboundary water issues, working at all levels of governments all around the world.

#COP17Armenia Women at the Interfaces: Connecting Knowledge, Practice and Biodiversity Governance ➡️ enb.iisd.org/women-interf...

Paulina G. Karim, CEO, ScapesLab Research Center at the National Dong Hwa University, noted that the first Women’s Biodiversity Outlook would be launched on 27 October 2026.

Paule Gros, President, BiodivEarth, underscored the importance of women’s solidarity, underlining that this is one of the way of ensuring gender responsive elements in policymaking.

#COP17Armenia Women at the Interfaces: Connecting Knowledge, Practice and Biodiversity Governance ➡️ enb.iisd.org/women-interf...

Just prior to the launch of the first ever Women’s Biodiversity Outlook, women in biodiversity reflected on their contributions to the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

At #COP17Armenia, evening contact groups address: 🌿 digital sequence information #DSI 🌿 Global Report 🌿 #biodiversity and climate change 🌿 sustainable wildlife management 🌿 biodiversity and health @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction

At #COP17Armenia, Presidency launches Yerevan Call on incentives positive to #biodiversity and Friends of the #KMGBF Target 18 Contact groups continue deliberations on resource mobilization, among other issues @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction @iisd.org

At #COP17Armenia, deliberations continue in different negotiating formats on: 🌿digital sequence information #DSI 🌿agriculture and #biodiversity 🌿mainstreaming 🌿the budget 🌿potential areas for further work @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction

At #COP17Armenia, deliberations on digital sequence information #DSI continue in Friends of the Co-Chairs group Delegates address revised non-paper: www.cbd.int/documents/6a... Negotiations focus on certificates @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #BiodiversityAction

#COP17Armenia While difficult negotiations continued on Article 8(j) on Indigenous Peoples and local communities, an evening stocktaking plenary adopted a series of decisions on less controversial items. @unbiodiversity.bsky.social ➡️ enb.iisd.org/un-biodivers...

#Cop17Armenia Protecting Pollinators, Transforming Food Systems: A Regional Pathway for Implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework Participants discussed efforts to promote integrated approaches to pollinator conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean. ➡️ enb.iisd.org/protecting-p...

Hesiquio Benítez Diaz, Mexican Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), noted that Mexico is working on a North American pollinator protection campaign with Canada and the US.

Andreas Gettkant, Director of the Poli-LAC Project, @giz.de, outlined the call to action for the protection of pollinators in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Edith Bastidas, Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network of Latin America and the Caribbean, underscored that Indigenous women possess specific knowledge related to nutrition, health, and the care of their families and territory.

KimAnh Templeman, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN @FAO, highlighted the upcoming Global Pollinator Conference, scheduled for 5-6 November 2026 in Rome, Italy.

David Castro, Ministry of Environment, Peru, highlighted governance and public policies to integrate pollinator protection into decision-making.

Underscoring the importance of ensuring that national policies consider local realities, Elliot Centeno de Oliveira, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil, stressed that people are willing to do the right thing for nature but are sometimes unaware of best practices.

Elke Steinmetz, #BMUKN, Germany: Protecting pollinators also protects biodiversity and safeguards the food systems on which we all depend.

#COP17Armenia Making 30x30 Count: From Participation to Credible, Equitable and Lasting Marine OECMs in Asia Panelists explored how participatory governance can support credible, equitable, and lasting marine Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) ➡️ enb.iisd.org/making-3030-...

Julian Hyde, CEO, Reef Check Malaysia, noted that they are facilitating the development of a community protocol to support community decision-making.

Hari Kushardanto, Vice President, Rare in Indonesia, cited some concern among communities that OECMs will limit their livelihoods and underscored the need to increase the participation of NGOs and communities from the outset.

Rocky Sanchez Tirona, Managing Director, Fish Forever, Rare (the Philippines), described Indigenous Peoples’ involvement in the development of a coastal management plan, saying they mapped the ancestral domains and incorporated them into the overall management plan.

Wichin Suebpala, Thailand Marine Project Manager, Pacific Environment, noted that many community members initially misunderstood and opposed the OECM concept, but informal group discussions and direct calls helped promote understanding.

Rayhan Dudayev, Partner, Segara Pasifik, and AIMS@JCU, highlighted the importance of considering what kind of conservation underpins efforts to achieve the 30x30 conservation target.

Paulina G. Karim, CEO, ScapesLab, Center for Sustainable Development, National Dong Hwa University: We call OECMs “human biodiversity co-existence areas.”

#UNTOC #COP13 In a historic moment, Parties took a leap towards the development of a new protocol on specific environmental crimes. ➡️ enb.iisd.org/un-conventio...

At #COP17Armenia: Ecuador and Panama offer to host #biodiversity COP 18, consultations continue #BiodiversityAction @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

At #COP17Armenia, stocktaking plenary adopts series of decisions under the #biodiversity Convention and the protocols #BiodiversityAction @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

At #UNTOC at the side event on “Towards a New Protocol to the UNTOC on Crimes that Affect the Environment,” speakers provided their views on the years-long effort to bring environmental crimes into the UNTOC family.

At #UNTOC the thirteenth Conference of the Parties approves the resolution on the establishment of an ad hoc committee to elaborate an additional protocol to UNTOC for specific environmental crimes with more than the necessary two thirds majority of the Parties present and voting.

At #UNTOC plenary consensually adopted resolutions on: commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Firearms Protocol; strengthening international cooperation to combat transnational organized crime against cultural property; and the recommendations of the UNTOC working groups.

At #COP17Armenia, contact group continues difficult negotiations on the Subsidiary Body on Art. 8(j) on #IndigenousPeoples and local communities WG II addresses CRP on #biodiversity and agriculture Evidence of local #BiodiversityAction continues in the corridors @unbiodiversity.bsky.social