Press Conference: COP 16: What’s Really at Stake – Voices from the Ground on the Threat of False Solutions

23 Oct 2024

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

Live Webcast Available

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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.

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SPEAKERS: 

• Mary Louise Malig, Policy Director, GFC, 
• Souparna Lahiri, Senior Climate and Biodiversity Policy Advisor, GFC
• Valentina Figuera Martinez, Gender Justice and Forests Campaign Coordinator, GFC
• Andrea Echeverri, Unsustainable Livestock Campaign Coordinator, GFC
• Others TBC

WHERE: Blue Zone and via live webcast here: (coming soon)

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

CONTACT: 

Megan Morrissey (ENG/ESP) +12023656900, megan@globalforestcoalition.org 

Ismail Wolff (ENG) +33 7 88 85 28 59 ismail.wolff@globalforestcoalition.org

Live webcast available: (coming soon)