This interactive hybrid event will invite speakers and the audience to truly reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature through an exploration of the linkages between human rights and biodiversity. For those unable to attend in person, virtual registration is available here. The event, which will build upon the recent recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right by Human Rights Council resolution 48/13, will share ideas for a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that promotes rights-based action to protect biodiversity, including through participatory, inclusive, transparent and accountable implementation that safeguards Indigenous Peoples’ rights and ways of life.

 

New OHCHR research on integrating human rights in national biodiversity strategies and action plans and rights-based approaches to biodiversity action, including finance, will be presented to inform an interactive discussion. Other objectives of the session include to:

 

• Build momentum for integration of human rights, including the right to a healthy environment, in the development and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework;

• Increase awareness of the linkages between human rights and biodiversity; and

• Explore the implications of recognition of the human right to a healthy environment for biodiversity and conservation action.