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Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July 2023, New York, United States of America

New guide aims to accelerate forest tenure pathways to gender equality

Forest tenure reform in the global south has often failed to be gender-responsive, but there is increasing interest in taking up this challenge to activate effective change.

Nomination of Gender and Biodiversity Focal Points

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/PBU/JL/OR/TM/91061 (2023-058)
To: CBD national focal points

Orientation session for delegates on mainstreaming gender considerations into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), 24 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/ITS-OMG/RS/MAK/71484 (2010-080)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Participants at “Gender, Climate Change, and Migration” event were briefed on the VC platform

Gender equality, women’s protection, and empowerment are keys to the disaster risk reduction and climate change agendas, and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To enable this, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses by 2030, cal ...

Pioneering naturalists: the woman who linked caterpillars to butterflies

Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies: eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once hotly debated. It was a pioneering naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian, whose meticulous observations c ...

Press release: Gender-responsive biodiversity policy

For three days in Mexico City over 65 women and men working on issues related to gender and biodiversity in Mexico came together to share experiences and provide input into the development of a gender-responsive National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP).

Progress in implementing the 2015-2020 Gender Plan of Action: Request for contributions to inform the second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/NP/TM/87003 (2017-130)
To: CBD National Focal Points, other Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and Relevant Organizations

Promoting gender equality a ‘crucial contribution’ in effort to restore, protect our planet’s oceans

“We need to empower each and every citizen to take care of the ocean and enable all women to play transformative and ambitious roles in understanding, exploring, protecting and sustainably managing our ocean”, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, pointing out that this year’s “specia ...

Ratifying the Escazú Agreement Will Support Women Land Defenders and Protect Nature

Patricia Gualinga is surrounded by a burgeoning rainforest as she zooms in to participate in an online forum. While her image appears slightly out of focus as she calls in from her remote location in the Ecuadorian Amazon, her words, courage and determination transmit crystal clear:

Regional Expert Workshop to Develop Training Materials on Gender Equality and Biodiversity for South-East Asia and the Pacific

28 - 30 November 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Training Workshop to Build Understanding and Capacity on Gender and Biodiversity Issues in South-East Asia

9 - 13 December 2019, Manila, Philippines

Reminder and Extension of Deadline: Call for the nomination of participants for the regional training workshop to build understanding and capacity on gender-biodiversity issues in South East Asia, 9-13 December 2019 - Manila, Philippines

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/JS/TMC/VA/88336 (2019-087)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points in: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, as well as relevant organizations

Reminder and Extension of Deadline: Invitation to participate in the survey to identify joint capacity-building needs for gender mainstreaming in the implementation of the three Rio Conventions

Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/NP/TM/86879 (2017-125)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Stakeholder Organizations

Reminder and Extension of Deadline: Progress in implementing the 2015-2020 Gender Plan of Action: Request for contributions to inform the second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/NP/TM/87003 (2018-016)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and Relevant Organizations

Request for information on the development of indicators to monitor gender mainstreaming

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/NP/CR/83350 (2014-043)
To: CBD, CPB, ICNP National Focal Points

Reversing Climate Change with a Feminine Response

The UK-based charity, TreeSisters‘ feminine response to climate change hopes to shift humanity’s identity from a consumer to a restorer species, calling for collective responsibility and planetary restoration through a reforestation revolution. It nurtures ordinary women to do extraordinary things.

Review of draft guidelines for mainstreaming gender into the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

Reference: SCBD/ITS-OMG/RS/MAK/69653 (2009-160)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Pursuant to paragraph 8 (d) of decision IX/8 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on Review of implementation of goals 2 and 3 of the Strategic Plan, and decision IX/24 on the CBD Gender Plan of Action, we are pleased to attach herewith the draft guideline ...

Rural women are an indisputable force behind efforts to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity all over the world, and as such they are critical players in building climate resilience.

Rural women are integrally connected to all aspects of local biodiversity – as users, custodians and agents of change.

Saffron, biodiversity and glaciers: Kashmir’s women scientists lead climate action

Several women scientists from Kashmir are at the forefront of research to tackle changing climatic patterns that threaten local ecologies, livelihoods and networks that sustain them. Scientists Nasheeman Ashraf, Ulfat Majeed and Mehreen Khaleel come from different backgrounds and work in differe ...

Saving a forest, saving livelihoods

Twenty years after a super cyclone ripped Odisha apart, a women’s group from a village recalls how it protected crops by reviving a lost forest

Saving seeds and lives: Tunisian women on the frontline of climate change

With Tunisia facing both climate and economic crises, a group of women have started cooperatives and small businesses to protect the environment and create a sustainable livelihood.

Seasons of the witch: as women we nurture the riches of earth, food and health

The correlation of the feminine to nature, repressive for so long, can be a source of power. In the past few months I have started putting down roots. It’s a cliche but it’s literally what I’m doing. I spend my weekends transforming the tired old lawn into garden beds, layering woodchips, straw ...

Second World Biodiversity Congress (organized by The Century Foundation Bangalore, India)

8 - 12 September 2011, Kuching, Malaysia

She started climbing trees as a kid. Then this ecologist helped create scientist Barbie.

Nalini Nadkarni didn’t play with Barbies as a girl. She was too busy climbing the maple trees in her front yard in Bethesda, Md.The forest ecologist might seem an unlikely person to help design and promote Barbie dolls. But over the past six months, she has been inspiring girls worldwide to play ...

Stand against climate crisis is stand against gender violence

The climate crisis and environmental degradation are fuelling gender-based violence. Women and gender minorities at the forefront of environmental resistance movements are a prime target of violence. They are threatened, intimidated, attacked, or killed while defending their homes, communities, ...

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, 15 October 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, 15 October 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024

Statement by Dr. Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women 15 October 2019

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Women’s Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Day of Rural Women 2022, 15 October, 2022

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Day of Rural Women 2022, 15 October, 2022

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2023

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2023

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of International Women’s Day “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of International Women’s Day “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Women’s Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of International Women’s Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Rural Women.

Stewards of the forest: the pioneering women’s collective harvesting the Gambia’s oysters

The all-female workforce is part of a visionary project committed to protecting the wetland forests. Now their challenge is to earn a sustainable living year-round

Supporting gender-responsive biodiversity conservation in Uganda

Montreal, 4 July 2016 – Uganda, a country renowned for its rich biodiversity, is taking strides to integrate gender considerations into its national policies, plans and programmes to implement its obligations under the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

Survey on Gender Responsive Monitoring of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/TMc/TM/89736 (2021-052)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points