On 25 March, the CBD Women’s Caucus and the UNFCCC Women and Gender Constituency convened a cross-learning session to exchange lessons between the midterm review of the CBD Gender Plan of Action (2023–2030) and the newly adopted UNFCCC Belem Gender Action Plan (GAP).
On 11 March 2026, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat hosted a dedicated learning session to commemorate International Women’s Day, bringing together staff and partners to reflect on progress and future opportunities for advancing gender equality within environmental finance. Opening remarks from Verona Collantes-Lebale, Senior Gender Specialist at the GEF Secretariat, and Adriana Moreira, Lead of the Partnership Division, highlighted key achievements in integrating gender equality across GEF policies, programming, and results frameworks.
The CBD Women’s Caucus, in collaboration with IIED, is working to enable women’s organisations to generate and use gender-responsive biodiveristy data. Following a recent report that focused on recognising women-led biodiversity data as vital to advance biodiversity conservation, we are launching a new…
On 5 March ahead of 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women(CSW70), the CBD Women’s Caucus, in collaboration with International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), convened a virtual launch of its recent publication on Advancing Gender Justice in Biodiversity Data and Policy. The session brought together voices from across regions and institutions to reflect on a shared challenge: how to ensure that biodiversity monitoring is not only technically robust, but also rights-based, inclusive, and grounded in the lived realities of women.
On the margins of CSW70, the side event “From CSW Commitments to CBD COP17: Advancing Gender Equality for Biodiversity Action” brought together governments, UN agencies, and civil society to strengthen the connections between gender equality and biodiversity governance in the lead-up to COP17.
During CSW70, the event “Breaking the Silence: Barriers to Access to Justice for Women Environmental Rights Defenders” brought together a powerful group of advocates, practitioners, and policymakers to shed light on the urgent challenges faced by women defending nature and human rights.
This report details our engagement at the eighth meeting of the : Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Scientific and Technical Advisory Group for the Preparation of the Global Report on Collective Progress in the Implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (AHSTAG) for the global report, a critical step in preparing for the first global review of the Framework at COP 17.
The Secretariat convened the sixth meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Ecologically
or Biologically Significant Marine Areas on 7 and 8 October 2025. The meeting was held online, and the representatives
The Conference of the Parties decided to run the sixth AHTEG (ad hoc technical expert group) on synthetic biology. This is a crusial topic that shapes important controversies on how different governmental, industrial, and civil society actors see the impacts of biotechnology
By Marie Angèle Taïwo AKOWE IKPADOUN member of the CBD Women’s caucus Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position or opinions of the CBD Women’s Caucus From…
