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Dec 19 7 tweets 3 min read
Finally, the international community adopted the #GlobalBiodiversityFramework here in Montreal at the #COP15. In these last hours in Montreal, I want to pay tribute to two indigenous leaders, Estebancio Castro and Robinson Lopez (this photo is in Rome, in a CBD meeting 2020). Image
Estebancio and Robinson were present in my heart during the whole #COP15: Covid-19 took them away from us, but their legacy was critical to get all the progress to advance on indigenous rights in the #GBF. I'm teary with gratitude, I wish I could hug them. I miss them dearly.
Make no mistake: this framework could have been much worse, but thanks to people's power and the organizing of civil society, indigenous peoples and women organizations, this agreement is more inclusive and opens the window to change the game in conservation policy. Lets be proud
There are more reasons to celebrate: there's a promise to deliver more money for biodiversity and more safeguards to protect the rights of Indigenous people. It’s a significant step forward in the fight to protect life on Earth, and that's a good reason to celebrate.
But on its own it won’t be enough and what we have seen in the plenary with the complain from DRC is a symptom of all the hard work that needs to happen to rebuild trust between developing and developed countries. These wounds are real, let's face it.
The undiplomatic way the Chinese presidency handled dissent, without even acknowledging it, is a warning sign for Africa and Latin America. Such a rush move is a contrast of the silent and methodic work the Chinese presidency have been conducting at the #COP15.
But such incident shouldn't eclipse the success of the international biodiversity community in Montreal, the one that showed that compromise, dialogue and consensus building it's not only possible, but crucial for building a path of cooperation and solidarity" #COP15

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Dec 21
The Kunming-Montreal #GlobalBiodiversityFramework (GBF) contains some strong elements, but without adequate financial resources it will stay on paper. As is the case for climate finance, we need to reform Bretton Woods to unlock financial flows. #COP15 (long thread, as usual!😉)
We analyzed the GBF package and asked ourselves: how will it be delivered and implemented? The challenges to get funding will be massive. Here we suggest a three-step approach, from now until the #COP16 to build trust and political will at @UNBiodiversity Convention and beyond: Image
To recap: there is a funding need of between US$ 700 to nearly 1 trillion/year to implement the GBF. The final text used a smaller number, but still estimated the funding gap to fill at US$ 700 billion per year by 2030.The GBF package contains four points on finance:
Read 25 tweets
Dec 19
#COP15: DRC questioned the framework. But presidency adopts the Global Biodiversity Framework. A strong “so it’s decided” was followed by a huge applause and acclamation. For Cameroon, it was “a force of hand”. Uganda questioned that decision on procedural basis. Image
Several things were surprising:
- no time for Parties to read documents
- first announced going through docs 1 by 1 but then adopted all at once
- completely ignored DRC who was clear, getting out of it with a legality (DRC didn't say "I object the adoption")
This is a messy process, shadowed by the Mercosur-EU tensions, Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and so on… and yet there’s consensus on what the framework should look like and a spirit of compromise. No one will be totally happy with compromise, but at least is a collective one.
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Dec 14
BREAKING. We are in a position to confirm that @EmmanuelMacron sent a letter to Ursula @vonderleyen saying that the creation of a new fund for #biodiversity was a “redline”. #COP15 - see thread 👇🏼
Over and over, in private conversations with delegates, from the Global South and the Global North (even including the EU), we hear that @Elysee was blocking compromises, and single-handedly preventing the #EuropeanUnion from building bridges with developing countries.
This morning, we published an ad in Le Figaro and Libération, because we thought that it was a shocking failure of leadership that @EmmanuelMacron would go watch football instead of being here. ImageImage
Read 6 tweets
Dec 14
DEVELOPING: At 00:49 on Wednesday, #COP15 delegates from developing countries walked out of the contact group on resource mobilization, ending the meeting. The other contact group, on review mechanism, also ended its meeting soon after.
Delegates left the meeting because they felt that it was impossible to make progress in the discussions because developed countries were not ready to compromise - they invited the Parties that are obstacles to reflect on their positions in order to move forward at another point.
After weeks of acting as if discussions could move forward without properly addressing the issue of financial resources, now Parties are finally done with pretending. The game is finally on.
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Dec 14, 2019
Horas preocupantes en esta conferencia climática: Brasil y China están empezando a bloquear fuerte en conjunto, y la presidencia sigue cediendo, ignorando que muchos otros países quieren que el nuevo texto incluya metas más ambiciosas contra el cambio climático > seguir hilo 👇🏼
Ejemplo? Frans Timermans le pide a la presidencia de la conferencia de clima: necesitamos más ambición de lo que ahora está en oferta en la #COP25, no podemos decirle al mundo que estamos reduciendo nuestras ambiciones en la lucha contra el cambio climático
Y el pedido no es solo de países: empresas como Unilever, IKEA, ESF, Acciona o Iberdrola, y cientos de empresas y referentes del sector privado están pidiendo lo mismo, tanto públicamente como en los pasillos de la #COP25 . Qué espera la presidencia chilena, entonces?
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