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📣 Calling business leaders, people working at the business-biodiversity interface, and policy experts! Join us on 23 Oct...
21/10/2026

📣 Calling business leaders, people working at the business-biodiversity interface, and policy experts!

Join us on 23 October for the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment workshop!

Hosted by UNEP-WCMC, IPBES and United Nations Biodiversity, will focus on helping the private sector to better understand and apply findings and recommendations from the IPBES assessment.

The workshop will explore:
🔸Key findings, directly from the authors
🔸How the assessment’s findings and recommended actions can inform business decisions and practice
🔸Examples from organizations already applying business and biodiversity approaches
🔸Practical barriers, enabling conditions, and opportunities for collaborations

🕤 9:00 - 13:00 | 📍 KMGBF room, COP17 Blue Zone, L1 Level, Unit #24

At ? 👋 Connect with our delegates to know more!

👋 From Yerevan, 🇦🇲 Our delegation is on-the-ground, working across the venue - in negotiation rooms supporting Parties...
21/10/2026

👋 From Yerevan, 🇦🇲

Our delegation is on-the-ground, working across the venue - in negotiation rooms supporting Parties and at side events promoting the work we have been developing.

Stay tuned for all UNEP-WCMC related events and conversations advancing accelerated action 🌿

*DCOP17

20/10/2026

🎥 From ! 🔴

Neville Ash, Director UNEP-WCMC, shares what our team is working on in Yerevan, and how we’re supporting Parties with the data, tools and evidence needed to reach and implement decisions through the next four years.

💡 Learn about the five priorities we are helping advance at # *DCOP17: https://bit.ly/4hTwNnh
🔍 See our full list of events and where to find our delegates: https://bit.ly/4hOE35f
✅ Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on what we're up to at !

*DCOP17 United Nations Biodiversity

From data to action with UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) at 🌐🌳 📣 Join us at the UN Pavilion to explore how UNBL is working ...
20/10/2026

From data to action with UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) at 🌐🌳

📣 Join us at the UN Pavilion to explore how UNBL is working with countries to turn spatial intelligence into action .

This dynamic and collaborative event will engage participants around three key objectives:
🎊 Celebrate and Inspire: showcase country leadership and concrete results from using spatial data and planning to support the implementation of the
🔍 Identify Priorities: by discussing opportunities to strengthen spatial data, address capacity and monitoring needs, and support national implementation and reporting
💪 Strengthen Partnerships: by connecting countries, subregional Technical and Scientific Support Centres (TSCCs), and technical organizations to advance collaboration and long-term sustainability of this work

22 October | 13:15 - 14:45 (Armenian Standard Time) | 📍UN Pavilion

UNEP-WCMC | UNDP | United Nations Biodiversity | UN Environment Programme | South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) | Humboldt Institute | California Natural Resources Agency

From consultation to co-creation: Advancing responsible business engagement with Indigenous Peoples and local communitie...
20/10/2026

From consultation to co-creation: Advancing responsible business engagement with Indigenous Peoples and local communities 🌿

Indigenous Peoples and local communities are critical stewards of biodiversity. Their deep-rooted knowledge, governance systems and culturally embedded practices are fundamental to achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework .

Yet business engagement with Indigenous Peoples and local communities often falls short on respecting rights, securing Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and ensuring fair benefit-sharing. Frameworks, including TNFD and sectoral standards are helping companies improve, yet significant gaps remain in embedding consistent, rights-based approaches at scale.

At , we are creating a dedicated space for Indigenous Peoples and local communities representatives to set out their priorities for engagement with business. The dialogue will:
🔸 Identify persistent challenges and structural barriers
🔸 Showcase good practices, case studies and emerging solutions
🔸 Explore the enabling conditions, from corporate frameworks and policy, for scaling responsible engagement
🔸 Generate actionable recommendations for action aligned with the KMGBF, moving from do-no-harm to participatory value creation

23 October 2026 | 18:15 (Armenia Standard Time) | 📍Lori - Meeting Room 4, Level 3

UNEP-WCMC | Forest Stewardship Council Indigenous Foundation | UNESCO | Union for Ethical Biotrade (UEBT) | International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) | Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)

*DCOP17

Strengthening what already exists - Indigenous and community-led data for 🌐 The Global Report on the Implementation of ...
19/10/2026

Strengthening what already exists - Indigenous and community-led data for 🌐

The Global Report on the Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity framework highlights key gaps in information on:
🌿Indigenous and Traditional Territories (ITTs)
🌿ICCAs - territories of life
🌿Customary governance systems
🌿Conservation contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities

These territories and governance systems are increasingly recognized as critical to achieving global biodiversity goals, yet they remain underrepresented in national and global reporting.

Platforms such as UNEP-WCMC’s ICCA Registry, LandMark, and Indigenous Navigator, already exist and have evolved through years of collaboration, consent processes and trust-building with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

As Parties advance implementation of the KMGBF, how can such platforms contribute to national reporting, global assessments and future reviews of progress, while respecting rights, governance systems, free, prior and informed consent, and data sovereignty?

Join experts at a side event and explore opportunities to strengthen and better utilize these platforms.

22 October | 18:15 (Armenia Standard Time) | 📍Bijni - Indigenous peoples and Local Communities Group meeting room

ICCA Consortium | International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) | Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) | IUCN | UNEP-WCMC | IUCN CEESP | World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) | ILC | World Resources Institute | The Indigenous Navigator

🔍 See our full list of events and where to find our delegates: https://bit.ly/4hOE35f

*DCOP17

Will you be attending C*D COP17 in Yerevan? Join the National Monitoring Support Initiative for two side events focused ...
19/10/2026

Will you be attending C*D COP17 in Yerevan?

Join the National Monitoring Support Initiative for two side events focused on strengthening national biodiversity implementation, monitoring and reporting.

20 October, 12:30–13:30
Data to Action Pavilion
Connecting Knowledge and Data to Strengthen National Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting of the Global Biodiversity Framework

Hear how Country and Regional Partners are using tools, technical support and peer learning to address national monitoring challenges. The session will also introduce the Knowledge Support Service for Biodiversity and the Target Tracker.

21 October, 11:45–13:15
UN Pavilion
From Reporting to Action: Responding to the Global Review through Strengthening National Monitoring Systems

The session will bring together national experiences and lessons from preparing the 7th National Reports and connect them with tools, resources and expertise that can support the next phase of implementation.

Both events will take place at the Meridian Exhibition Center in Yerevan, Armenia. Times are Armenia Standard Time (GMT+4).

Find full details:
20 October: https://bit.ly/4yYWpGT
21 October: https://bit.ly/4slTg1d

*DCOP17

🚨 From monitoring and finance to inclusion in implementation, is where governments take stock of progress on the Kunmi...
16/10/2026

🚨 From monitoring and finance to inclusion in implementation, is where governments take stock of progress on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework . 🌿

It's also where ambition must be converted into accelerated, evidence-based action at the national level.

UNEP-WCMC experts will be attending *DCOP17, contributing science, tools, expertise and insights to support Parties in making and taking decisions that will shape and accelerate actions through the next four years.

🔗 Here are the five priorities we are helping advance at : https://bit.ly/4hTwNnh

*DCOP17

United Nations Biodiversity

🌏 OECMs in action: the Cook Islands🇨🇰 Meet the Takitumu Conservation Area (TCA), a 1.55 km2 key biodiversity area manage...
16/10/2026

🌏 OECMs in action: the Cook Islands🇨🇰

Meet the Takitumu Conservation Area (TCA), a 1.55 km2 key biodiversity area managed by the Takitumu Conservation Area Co-ordinating Committee.

It is home to rare birds, including the endemic Ī'oi and Kākerōri. The site is known for its conservation success stories and its ecotourism value, and it holds deep cultural importance for its three landowning tribes.

Takitumu Conservation Area demonstrates how species conservation, local livelihoods and cultural heritage work hand in hand.

🔍 Explore OECMs on Protected Planet: https://bit.ly/3SbrL7Z
🎓 Take the free online course on OECMs: https://bit.ly/4hmaIyU
👉 To know more about Takitumu Conservation Area (TCA): https://bit.ly/4yhY8Wk
💡 Learn about marine and coastal OECMs and the work conducted by the COBSEA Secretariat, with support of the UN Environment Programme in Asia Pacific: https://bit.ly/4ddeGY4

This campaign is a joint initiative of UNEP-WCMC, IUCN, WWF and the Protected Planet Initiative.

IUCN Oceania

🌍OECMs in action: Sweden🇸🇪 Meet Tjäderberget, a 0.8 km2 forested area in Sweden and one of the country's first examples ...
15/10/2026

🌍OECMs in action: Sweden🇸🇪

Meet Tjäderberget, a 0.8 km2 forested area in Sweden and one of the country's first examples of an Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measure (OECM).

The park management follows an active approach to support old-growth pine and key species, including:
🔥 Conservation burning
🪵 Deadwood creation
🌲 Gap cutting

This site showcases that sometimes active management helps keep an ecosystem healthy.

🔍 Explore OECMs on Protected Planet: https://bit.ly/3SbrL7Z
🎓 Take the free online course on OECMs: https://bit.ly/4hmaIyU
💡 Learn more about Tjäderberget: https://bit.ly/4yr4AdT

This campaign is a joint initiative of UNEP-WCMC, IUCN, WWF and the Protected Planet Initiative.

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