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Fundacion Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN) and Women4Biodiversity
Highlight opportunities to enhance synergies between the CBD Convention and the SDGs, in particular analyzing how the implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework can help achieve gender equality SDG 5, contribute to SDGs 14, 15 and 17 and advance human rights. In this event we will share reflections from the field and negotiations in the post-2020 process (including key outcomes from the third and fourth meetings of the Open Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework) for advancing women’s rights and gender equality, with a focus on empowering women and girl, reducing gender violence, achieving inclusive and sustainable development and securing better environmental outcomes that support a life of dignity for all. The integration of of human rights and adoption of human rights-based approaches can be a game-changer in driving transformative action for the achievement of gender equality SDG 5, strengthen the ‘nature goals’ 14 and 15, to build back better from COVID-19, and to ensure the gender-responsive implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
Rights-based approaches are anchored within the post-2020 GBF’s theory of change and enabling conditions. The recently adopted resolution 48/13 on the rights to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, by the Human Rights Council, in October 2021, further sets the scene for a rights-based approach by encouraging governments "to adopt policies for the enjoyment of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as appropriate, including with respect to biodiversity and ecosystems".
The global biodiversity framework is also gaining momentum for seeking to recognise women’s rights and gender equality through a stand alone target in the GBF on Gender Equality (Target 22). Human rights and the environment are inextricably linked, and thus require equal respect and protection. In the context of biodiversity, rights over lands, resources, associated traditional knowledge and other rights that can be collectively held and enjoyed are particularly critical.
This side event will draw attention to the importance of human rights in the GBF and advance a common understanding of how a rights-based approach to conservation works in practice. It will also further reflect on how applying a rights-based approach can help advancing synergies with the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the global biodiversity framework to build back better from COVID-19.
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