Events and activities
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Explore how integrated governance and landscape finance drive inclusive, climate-positive development. Grounded in the 3 Rio Conventions, the session share tools and strategies for transforming territories through collaboration, investment, and policy coherence.
This side event will highlight the transformative role of youth in advancing biodiversity conservation, climate change advocacy, and adaptation strategies. It will explore how young leaders contribute to national and international processes, ensuring that adaptation and biodiversity priorities are addressed.
Representatives from the presidencies of the three Rio Conventions (UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD), and civil society, will explore concrete pathways for advancing climate and nature synergies. The event will showcase the leadership of Rio Convention presidencies – past, present and future – in championing synergies.
As the birthplace of the Rio Conventions and the host of COP30, Brazil offers a symbolic and strategic venue to advance our shared goals of tackling land degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change through coordinated action.
The Republic of Armenia proudly hosts the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) in October 2026. Armenia envisions COP17 as a milestone opportunity to enhance policy synergy and coherence between biodiversity conservation and climate action.
This side event focuses on translating lessons learned into operational pathways for scaling up EbA in NDCs 3.0. Speakers will present success factors that enable sustainable results, and country cases from the EbA LAC program will show how institutions are integrating EbA into planning tools and programs.
The climate, biodiversity, and land agendas are deeply interconnected, yet responses and financial flows often remain fragmented — adding reporting burdens and making suboptimal use of limited budgets while missing opportunities for greater impact.
This high-level event invites governments and other stakeholders to share their views on how COP30 can be a turning point to establish the processes, platforms and partnerships that can accelerate concrete actions.
Recognizing the interconnected challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss for ecosystems and healthy planet, Armenia organizes this event to consider the ways of leveraging COP30 outcomes in Belem towards successful global review of implementing the KMGBF at CBD COP17 in Yerevan in 2026.
The event will showcase leading examples of 2035 NDC ambition, nature-based solutions (NbS), and alignment with National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) within 2035 NDCs.
As part of the Implementation Forum, UNFCCC Climate Week 2 hosted Innovation Labs showcasing real-world, replicable solutions to accelerate cooperative climate action. Sessions emphasized inclusion and built on COP30 priorities and Africa Climate Summit 2025 to ensure continuity.
This webinar explored how integrating climate, biodiversity, and land goals into NBSAPs can enhance coherence across the Rio Conventions. It highlighted practical approaches to policy alignment and capacity-building for sustainable development.
This session aimed to strengthen capacity for implementing the Rio Conventions by fostering synergies among climate, biodiversity, & land agendas. Participants gained insights into aligning policies, leveraging co-benefits, & scaling up integrated approaches to achieve global sustainability goals.
COP30 in Belém marks a key moment to advance synergy across climate, biodiversity, land, and development goals. Building on the June 2025 Technical Exchange, this event fostered dialogue on aligning national plans and identifying steps for convergence across the Rio Conventions.
In decision 16/22, the CBD COP requested a 2025 technical exchange with Rio convention secretariats to explore ways to enhance cooperation and policy coherence for implementing biodiversity, climate, and land-related frameworks and agreements.
This workshop supported countries in aligning NBSAPs with the KMGBF and NDCs, enhancing synergies across biodiversity and climate goals. It focused on monitoring frameworks, indicator development, and reporting tools, responding to CBD and UNEA decisions.
This workshop explored policy coherence between climate and biodiversity, gathering experts from ministries, science, and civil society. Participants shared case studies and success factors to align CBD and UNFCCC goals and promote integrated strategies across sectors.
With COP30 in Belém, this event fostered dialogue on aligning climate and biodiversity agendas across UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD. Brazilian leaders and other experts explored ways to integrate these goals into multilateral processes and national policies for greater cross-Convention synergies.
This webinar shared tools from Nature4Climate’s “Guide for Including Nature in NDCs,” offering 15 recommendations to align revised NBSAPs with new NDCs, helping governments scale up climate action and resilience through integrated planning.
This webinar explored integrated solutions to climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. It highlights tools and examples that align the Rio conventions (UNFCCC, CBD, UNCCD) and support ambition-raising ahead of COP 30 in Brazil.