Towards a headline indicator for T22 of CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework
INFO
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 15:00
Room: Cocora - Subnational and Local Authorities meeting room Plaza One
Capacity: 86 people
Hosts: FAO | ILC | FPP | WRI
Web: www.cbd.int/side-events/6694
ABOUT
FAO, together with other partners (the International Land Coalition (ILC), Forest People’s Programme (FPP), World Resources Institute (WRI), LandMark), has taken the lead on the development of a land indicator – which, as requested during the 12th Meeting of the Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions (WG8J-12) in Geneva, includes a land use and land tenure component. The importance of land tenure for biodiversity is all the more emphasized since it is being recommended by SBSTTA as a potential headline indicator for T22 of CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) (potential under the custodianship of FAO). The inclusion of this land use and tenure indicator in CBD’s KMGBF will be decided at COP16.
Protecting legitimate land tenure rights enables the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. In particular guaranteeing the land tenure rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, who own, claim and occupy 50% of the World’s lands and are the custodians of large number of the biodiversity hotspots, contributes to the protection of ecosystems, waterways, biodiversity and natural resources, as well as reductions in deforestation and carbon emissions. Biodiversity and other environmental goals cannot be achieved without the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities. Making land rights central to CBD implementation holds the potential to unleash the capacities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to be agents of sustainable transformations for conserving biodiversity.
The objectives of this side event will be twofold. On one hand, it will make the case for Land use and tenure as the basis for protecting and restoring biodiversity while protecting people and livelihoods. Hence, this side event will include key stakeholders from the local, national, and global levels who are involved in policymaking and implementation to discuss the need to make the protection of legitimate tenure rights the basis for implementation of the Rio Conventions, CBD in particular. They will share their expertise, lessons learned, and good practices from different contexts and various levels of governance to strengthen the GBF. On the other hand, it will present and promote the proposed land use and tenure indicator as a potential headline indicator for T22 of CBD’s Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) (potentially under the custodianship of FAO). Policymakers will thus be joined by representatives of the Technical Working Group that developed the land indicator for T22.