Plenary C | Financing biodiversity conservation and nature-based solutions for sustainability challenges

Session Description: Adequate and sustainable financing, including gender-responsive policies, plays a pivotal role in ensuring the protection of biodiversity, the preservation of ecosystems, and the promotion of sustainable development. This topic explores various financing mechanisms, policy frameworks, and public-private partnerships that can mobilize resources and enable effective financial support for biodiversity conservation and the implementation of nature-based solutions. Read more

Parallel Session | Panel 3.3 | Mainstreaming biodiversity in development policies: what contribution can research make to develop cross-functional public action? Illustrations with the ECOPRONAT program.

Session Organizer: Agence Française de développement (AFD).

Session Description: This session will directly address the conference theme by discussing the links between biodiversity and sustainable development policies, through the presentation of research initiatives, experiences, and tools. It will address the following sub-themes: Alternative, nature-based solutions (NBS) for sustainability challenges (including perspective from indigenous people) Mainstreaming biodiversity and scaling up mainstreaming Context There is an urgent need to implement transformative changes in the sectors of activity that cause the degradation of nature, in addition to protect ecosystems and endangered species. Read more