Press Conference: COP 16: What’s Really at Stake – Forests’ Peoples Against False Solutions

23 Oct 2024

Wednesday 23 October, 13:00 – 13:30 Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5)

Live Webcast: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1i/k1ibtjb9yh

As COP 16 negotiations unfold, join experts and community leaders for an in-depth briefing on the biggest threats facing global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis. Panellists will dissect the risks posed by ineffective biodiversity offsetting and other market-based mechanisms that undermine real conservation efforts, including a gender lens. With the future of global biodiversity at stake, this press conference will highlight the urgent need for negotiators to reject these false solutions and instead embrace transformative and gender-responsive approaches that prioritize ecological integrity, uphold Indigenous and community rights, and ensure a just transition for nature and people.

SPEAKERS:

Mary Louise Malig, Policy Director, GFC, Philippines
Diel Mochire Mwenge, PIDP, DRC
Handaine Mohamed, President of IPACC, Morocco
Souparna Lahiri, Senior Climate and Biodiversity Policy Advisor, GFC
Moderator: Valentina Figuera Martínez, Gender Justice and Forests Campaign coordinator