The Alliance in the Blue Zone at COP16

The Alliance in the Blue Zone at COP16

The 16th Conference of the Parties (CBD COP 16) to the UN Biodiversity Convention will take place in Cali, Colombia, from October 21 to November 1, 2024.

Key negotiations and dialogues among member countries and accredited observers will be held in the Blue Zone, which will also host plenary sessions, official side events, pavilion events, as well as bilateral and multilateral meetings. 

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT will be involved in several key events, including: 

October 21, 2024

Sealing the deal on DSI Access and Benefit Sharing: a critical review of COP 16’s options from the perspective of agricultural R&D

21 October 2024 13:20–14:50
CEVP Ground Floor
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Scientists from national and international agricultural research organizations will describe how DSI is being in efforts to conserve agrobiodiversity and make plant breeding more efficient and effective. Policy experts will then consider options for the multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism that will support the projected increased use of DSI in the future, and substantially increase benefit-sharing.  

October 22, 2024

From deserts and rainforests to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault– genebanks’ role in conserving and promoting a sustainable use of genetic resources

22 October 2024 18:00–19:30
Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room
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In the best of worlds, genetic resources would be safeguarded in nature and allowed to thrive and contribute to a sustainable development without risk. However, in reality ex situ conservation is needed to minimize the loss of valuable genetic diversity. But how do we make sure that genebanks are not just seed museums? How do we promote a sustainable use of the genetic resources that genebanks conserve? In this discussion, we share info on how genebanks work and why safety backup of seeds in the Arctic is an important part of the puzzle. 

Maximizing DSI benefit-sharing from the Multilateral Mechanism

22 October 2024 18:00–19:30
Subnational and Local Authorities
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This side event will present non-commercial researchers’ perspectives on opportunities to improve the quality and quantity of benefits, maximise societal impact from DSI benefit-sharing, support the Global Biodiversity Framework, and more ensure equitable benefit-sharing.   

October 23, 2024

The CBD Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition: a catalyst for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

23 October 2024 15:00–16:30
Academia & Research
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This side event presents a first opportunity for member states and partner organizations to reflect on past actions of the CBD's Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition (established in 2006) and the best way to move forward over the coming years. A revived and supported Initiative, developed in the context of the CBD’s existing Programme of Work on Agricultural Biodiversity, can contribute to achieving more than half of the CBD’s Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets, as well as other key initiatives and actions in including the Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health and other global food, climate and environmental goals. 

October 24, 2024

Leveraging nature positive agriculture to achieve sustainable food systems and meet multiple GBF targets

24 October 2024 11:40–13:00
JUSCANZ
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This side event aims to present the main pillars and benefits of adopting a nature-positive agriculture and its contributions to achieving the GBF. The session will showcase examples of how this approach can be implemented across countries and adapted to local conditions and cultures, while maintaining the four pillars. Examples include work on banana diversity evaluation, promotion and production, small roots and tubers in Colombia, intercropping in Kenya, local specialty mango in India and circular economy, among others.  

Planetary Health and International Law: DSI Coherence in a Time of ABS Fragmentation

24 October 2024 15:00–16:30
Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room
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This panel will discuss how a COP16 DSI decision could more largely influence approaches to ABS across international law. Convening experts from across all four forementioned negotiations, panelists will attempt to resolve the issue of how to best bring about coherence for digital sequence information. With the goal of robust, coordinated and coherent implementation for any reformed ABS mechanism, this panel will articulate why this science-policy interface is essential for biodiversity governance, health governance, ocean governance, and beyond.

October 25, 2024

Montpellier Process: Pooling Collective Intelligence for Action

25 October 2024 13:20–14:50
Sierra Nevada, Working Group II - CEVP Ground floor
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The Montpellier Process invites actors from cities, national governments, and trade on the front line of implementing food system interventions to share successes and challenges in using available science to achieve global goals including those articulated in the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF).  

October 26, 2024

Transforming Agri-food Systems for People and Nature: from a new narrative to a new reality. Best cases and pathways for transformative change

26 October 2024 10:00–23:30
Science Policy Forum
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By exploring the interconnectedness of agri-food systems and biodiversity, this session will focus on: the role of knowledge systems and practices in creating alternative pathways for agri-food production, distribution and consumption; the contribution of indigenous peoples, afrodescendants and local communities, especially women, to inventing new models. CGIAR speaker: Cargele Masso.

October 28, 2024

Momentum for Target 16: Enhancing collective action to reduce the global footprint of consumption equitably 

28 October 2024 11:40–13:00
Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room - Plaza One
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The side-event will focus on how the commitment to reduce the global footprint by 2030 and significantly reduce overconsumption in an equitable manner can be integrated adequately in NBSAPs. The side event will also provide an opportunity to discuss how actions by multiple players can accelerate progress on Target 16.

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WHERE  STREAMING TITLE SPEAKERS

22 October 2024 

11:30 – 13:00 

GBF Pavilion   NBSAPs DAY - Turning NBSAPs into reality  Marcela Quintero

22 October 2024 

11:30 – 13:00 

CGIAR Pavilion   Making agroecosystem living labs (ALLs) work for the national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs)  Marcela Quintero 

22 October 2024 

13:30 - 15:00 

Colombian Pavilion    El mecanismo multilateral sobre DSI: ¿Cómo hacerlo realidad?  Michael Halewood 

22 October 2024 

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion   Mitigating the Agricultural Drivers of Biodiversity Loss  Carlo Fadda, Wei Zhang

23 October 2024  

9:00 – 10:30  

Peru Pavilion    Gestión Sostenible de la Agrobiodiversidad Marleni Ramirez  

23 October 2024 

9:30 – 11:00  

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Communities Leading the Way: Partnering with Nature-Dependent Communities for the Conservation of Biodiversity-Rich Landscapes in Latin America 

Manuel Narjes 

23 October 2024 

11:30  - 13:00  

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming The role of women in peacebuilding and biodiversity conservation: integrated approaches to community resilience  Deissy Martinez, Lisset Perez, Charlotte Pennel 

23 October 2024 

13:15 – 14:45 

Peru Pavilion    In situ conservation of Agrobiodiversity: contribution to food security  Marleni Ramirez 

23 October 2024 

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Biodiversity, gender and ethnicity  Mónica Chavarro 

23 October 2024  

14:00 – 17:00  

China Pavilion    You are what you eat: supporting the food aspirations of the Pastos of Cumbal, Colombia  Marleni Ramirez 

23 October 2024 

16:00 – 17:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Achieving Target 23: Identifying effective approaches for the gender-responsive implementation of the KM-GBF   

24 October 2024 

12:00 – 13:00 

Colombian Pavilion    Food Systems and Agrobiodiversity: An Intercultural Approach (Crop Trust event)  Carolina Navarrete 

24 October 2024 

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Making The Case For Ecological Benefits: A Common Language For Nature-Positive Solutions  Carlo Fadda, Marleni Ramirez

24 October 2024 

16:00 – 17:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Impact Investment Models and Partnerships for Biodiversity Conservation in the Amazon and beyond  Bernardo Caldas, Mayesse de Silva 

24 October 2024 

16:30 – 17:45

Netherlands Pavilion    The Agroecology Opportunity: an investment in biodiversity, water, climate, soil, and community security and resilience  Marcela Quintero 

24 October 2024 

17:00 – 17:50 

GBF Pavilion    HEALTH DAY - Unlocking synergies: Leveraging food systems to advance the health-biodiversity nexus  Carlo Fadda 

25 October 2024 

8:30 – 9:30 

EU Pavilion    Montpellier Process: use case dialogue: countries food system pathways   

25 October 2024 

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Harnessing agroecology, agrobiodiversity and family farming to transform food systems and halt biodiversity loss  Jonathan Mockshell 

25 October 2024 

16:00 – 17:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Integrating Soil Health, Livestock and Crop Management, Nutrition, and Biodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture  Marcela Quintero, Juan Andres Cardoso 

26 October 2024 

8:30 – 9:30 

EU Pavilion    Boosting food systems transformation: Linking Rural Communities to GBF Implementation and Peace with Nature Synergies   

26 October 2024 

9:30 – 11:00 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Leveraging human-centered Artificial Intelligence to enhance achievement of the GBF at the national level   

26 October 2024 

11:30 – 13:00 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Harvesting Solutions: Aligning NBSAPs and NDCs for Climate and Biodiversity Benefits  Deissy Martinez 

27 October 2024 

15:30 – 16:30 

Nature Positive Pavilion    Boosting NBSAPs through agroecology - launch of a new Guidance Tool (also launch of the Agroecology Handbook)  Marcela Quintero, Jonathan Mockshell  

27 October 2024 

15:30 – 16:55 

Science Policy Forum   Presidency event: A scientists’ view on Digital Sequence Information and Access and Benefit Sharing (Science- Policy Forum)  Claudio Chiarolla 

27 October 2024 

15.30 – 17:00

EU pavilion   Lessons learnt from DeSIRA projects on new research pathways to support biodiversity through agroecological innovations in agriculture and food systems.  Marcela Quintero

27 October 2024 

16:30 – 18:00 

Science Policy Forum   Presidency event: Environmental Peace: Pathways to Foster Just Transitions Towards Sustainability (Science- Policy Forum)  Augusto Castro, Janelle Sylvester 

28 October 2024 

9:30 – 10:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Peace with Nature: A Pathway to Achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework Goals and Beyond 

Mary Ngaiwi, Augusto Castro, Janelle Sylvester, Cargele Masso, Eliza Villarino, Marcela Quintero

 

28 October 2024 

10:30-11:30

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming

Research Roadmap: 

Biodiversity and Climate Action for Environmental Peacebuilding 

Lisset Perez, Leonardo Medina 

28 October 2024 

11:30 - 12:30  

CGIAR Pavilion    Peace for Nature: Integrating Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Action, and Peacebuilding for Global Resilience  Augusto Castro, Janelle Sylvester 

28 October 2024 

11:40 - 13:00 

Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room
Plaza One
  Momentum for Target 16: Enhancing collective action to reduce the global footprint of consumption equitably Gina Kennedy

28 October 2024 

12:30 – 13:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming
 
Translating Evidence into Solutions: Biodiversity and Climate Action for Environmental Peacebuilding  

28 October 2024 

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Building Ecosystem and Social Resilience as a strategy for environmental crime prevention? A critical panel discussion on the Amazon  Julian Higuera-Florez, Leonardo Medina 

28 October 2024 

14:15 - 15:45 

IUCN Pavilion    Harnessing agroecology, agrobiodiversity and family farming to transform food systems and halt biodiversity loss   Marcela Quintero 

28 October 2024 

14:30 – 16:00 

GBF Pavilion    Food day – Biodiversity for food and nutrition  Juan Lucas Restrepo 

28 October 2024 

16:00 – 17:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Food Systems for People and Planet: How True Cost Accounting can offer a Roadmap toward Solutions  Carlo Fadda, Juan Lucas Restrepo 

28 October 2024 

17:45 – 19:15 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Empowering communities to restore land and biodiversity through incentives and digital innovation   

28 October 2024 

18:00 – 19:15 

Netherland Pavilion    The Montpellier Process - Use case dialogue international trade policies   

29 October 2024 

CGIAR Pavilion    TARGET 3 DAY  

29 October 2024 

9:30 – 11:00 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Periodic Table of Food Initiative: Mapping Food Quality of the Planet’s Edible Biodiversity for Human and Planetary Health 

Juan Lucas Restrepo  

Maya Rajasehkaran 

Gina Kennedy (moderator)  

Jenny gallo (postdoc fellow) 

29 October 2024  

11:30 – 13:00 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Health, biodiversity and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: a discussion of a current problem for a better future  Camilo Barrios 

29 October 2024 

15:30 – 17:00 

Eu Pavilion   Lessons learned on the potential of inclusive commodity traceability systems for protecting the Great Forests of Mesoamerica.  Brian King 

29 October 2024 

16:00 – 17:30 

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Enhancing Agrobiodiversity and Climate Resilience for Sustainable Agricultural Systems in Colombia  Marcela Quintero, Deissy Martinez Baron, Julian Ramirez, Carlo Fadda 

29 October 2024  

17:45 – 19:15  

CGIAR Pavilion  Livestreaming Montpellier Process Use Cases Dialogue cities and territories   

30 October 2024 

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Advancing the Biodiversity Agenda through Seed Systems and Nature-Farmers Rights 

Carlo Fadda, Isabel Lopez 

30 October 2024 

16:00 – 17:30 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming Biodiversity for nutrition and health through Agroecology  Marcela Quintero 

30 October 2024

16:30 

    Press Conference on NBSAPs Carolina Navarrete

31 October 2024

14:00 – 15:30 

CGIAR Pavilion Livestreaming From Displacement to Development: Tackling the root causes of migration through biodiversity conservation and climate adaptation  Ignacio Madurga 

 

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