Virtual special event of the Rio Conventions Pavilion

14 October 2021, 07:00 EST, 19:00 Kunming (Watch the event replay)

Co-organized by the Secretariats of the Rio Conventions and the Global Environment Facility, the Rio Conventions Pavilion serves as a platform to promote and share experience in the implementation of the objectives of the Conventions in a complementary, integrated and holistic manner, towards enhanced and multiple benefits.

With the world at a critical juncture, requiring immediate, urgent, and strengthened efforts to address the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation in order to ensure a sustainable future for people and planet, critical negotiations are being convened under the Conventions and the GEF over the coming months.

These aim to raise the ambition of actions to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, to restore and maintain healthy landscapes, to establish a post-2020 global biodiversity framework that will halt the loss of biodiversity, and to agree an eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund that will strongly support these objectives.

The Rio Conventions Pavilion will play an important role in convening discussions aimed to build coordinated approaches and partnerships towards these interrelated, complementary and essential goals.  

This virtual special event will launch a series of the Rio Conventions Pavilion that will be held at the twenty-sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow, the second part of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Abidjan and at other major intergovernmental meetings in 2022.

Serving as a bridge between CBD COP 15 Part 1 and UNFCCC COP 26, the virtual special event will include insights from the Presidencies of these crucial global summits, the Executive Secretaries of the three Conventions and the Chief Executive Officer of the GEF, emphasizing the opportunities for coordinated action that can put the world on a path to land degradation neutrality, carbon-neutrality, halting the loss of biodiversity, living in harmony with nature, and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.