Biodiversity
EMG Issue Management Group on Biodiversity
The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) seeks to promote the protection and sustainable use of the world’s living resources. Building on the earlier Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, the role of the GBF is to guide international cooperation on achieving the 2050 vision of ‘Living in harmony with nature.’ This vision was agreed by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and is outlined in CBD decision 10/2.
The EMG Issue Management Group on Biodiversity was established in 2021 to continue and expand upon the work of the now-concluded EMG Consultative Process on Biodiversity. Co-chaired by UNDP, UNEP and UNESCO, the Group’s mandate is to prepare the ground for UN-system collaboration on the Global Biodiversity Framework through the UN Common Approach to Biodiversity.
In 2021, the EMG published a report describing the UN system’s commitment to assisting Member States to deliver on the Post-2020 Framework:
The EMG has supported the global biodiversity agenda for over a decade. Its earlier reports on biodiversity include:
- Information note submitted to CBD Open-ended Working Group (2021)
- Final EMG overview of UN system inputs to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (2020)
- Update on the UN EMG Consultative Process on Biodiversity at the time of the 2nd OEWG on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (2020)
- Advancing the biodiversity agenda: A UN system-wide contribution (2010)
- Mapping Contributions of the UN Agencies and Conventions to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
IMG Meetings
First meeting of the EMG Issue Management Group on Biodiversity took place virtually on Thursday, 9 December 2021, from 14h00 – 15h00 CET.
Meeting Documents
Consultative Process Meetings
The Fifth meeting of the EMG Consultative Process on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework took place on 8 September 2021, virtually.
Meeting Documents
- Provisional Agenda
- Terms of Reference for the EMG Issue Management Group on Biodiversity
- Draft Workplan of EMG Issue Management Group on Biodiversity
- Report of the Meeting
Presentations
The Fourth meeting of the EMG Consultative Process on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework took place on 29 June 2021 via online.
Meeting Documents
The Third Meeting
The Third meeting of the EMG Consultative Process on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework took place on 28 April 2021 via online. The purpose of the meeting is to update you on the latest developments ( Inter-agency and intergovernmental ) on biodiversity and share with you some thoughts on a plan of work for the Consultative Process moving forward.
Meeting Documents
- Provisional Agenda
- Draft TOR of EMG Issue Management Group on Biodiversity
- Report of the Meeting
- Draft agenda of the EMG event on launching the EMG Biodiversity Report and the CEB common approach on Biodiversity, 25th of May
Presentations
- UN Common Approach on Biodiversity – Corli Pretorius, UNEP
- 3rd Meeting of the Consultative Process on Biodiversity – Sebastian Winkler, EMG
- United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – Tim Christophersen, UNEP
- Ecosystem Restoration Playbook
Background Documents
- Supporting the Global Biodiversity Agenda: A United Nations System Commitment for Action to assist Member States delivering on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework – prepared by EMG Consultative Process on Biodiversity
- A common approach to integrating biodiversity and nature-based solutions for sustainable development into the UN’s policy and programme planning and delivery – approved by HLCP Biodiversity Task Team
- HLCP41-CRP.2 Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions Annex IV
The Second Meeting
The Second meeting of the EMG Consultative Process on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework took place on 27 February 2020 in Rome, Italy in the margins of the Second meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
The First Meeting
The Consultative Process met for the first time on the 29th of November, 2019, in the margins of the 23rd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, November 25th-29th, in Montreal, Canada.
Meeting Documents
- Provisional Agenda
- Draft Terms of Reference for the EMG Consultative Process on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
- Annex 2- (Draft) Key events of the CBD Secretariat, Consultative Process and contributing agencies
- Annex 3- EMG SOM biodiversity discussion
Outcome Documents
Informal meeting
This meeting took place on 26 August 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya, in the margins of the first meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on Post-2020 Biodiversity Strategic Framework.