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For Women, For Girls, For Biodiversity: CBD Women’s Caucus at the CEPA-IAC Meeting

On 29 April 2026, the CBD Women's Caucus participated in the first meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee on CEPA (CEPA-IAC), marking a key milestone in implementing Decision 16/10 from COP16. Our representative, Fatima El-aaraby from Morocco, advocated for a gender-responsive Global Plan of Action for Education on Biodiversity (GPA-EB), emphasizing that women and girls must be recognized not as passive beneficiaries, but as knowledge holders and drivers of change.

Strengthening Women’s Voices in Biodiversity Governance: The COOP4CBD Paris Training 2026

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.

Cross-learning session: “Gender Action Plans in practice: National implementation for biodiversity and climate”

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).

GEF’s International Women’s Day Learning Session

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.

Call for expressions of interest: peer learning series on gender and biodiversity data

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…

Making Space for Women’s Leadership in Biodiversity Data and Evidence

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.

From CSW Commitments to COP17: Advancing Gender Equality for Biodiversity Action

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.

Breaking the Silence: Advancing Justice for Women Environmental Rights Defenders

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.

Ensuring Women’s Voices Shape the Global Biodiversity Review: CBD Women Caucus Engagement at the AHSTAG Meeting in Montreal

What is the EBSAs Informal Advisory Group (IAG)?

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