The Journey to COP15
Learn more about our engagement in the official post-2020 process through the updates below, starting with the most recent. Read more ▸
Convention on Biological Diversity
What are we advocating for in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework?
The ICCA Consortium has advocated for several critical issues in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Learn more about these issues through reports, resources, blogs, and news from our membership and allies worldwide. Read more ▸
Perspectives and experiences of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and their organizations and allies in the global movement for territories of life
Learn more about the diverse perspectives and experiences of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, as well as their supporting organizations and allies, on key issues concerning their territories of life and in the context of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Read more ▸
The evidence base for a human rights-based global biodiversity framework
Territories of Life: 2021 Report shows the undeniable role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in ensuring a healthy planet for all and the urgent actions required to support them Read more ▸
Towards the future Global Biodiversity Framework: ICCA Consortium at UN CBD COP15
In the final stretch of UN negotiations of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the time is now to recognize Indigenous Peoples and local communities as central to sustaining the diversity of life on Earth. Read more ▸
Post-2020 global biodiversity framework: grassroots consultation on domestic implications in India
Consultation organized by ICCA Consortium Members KRAPAVIS and Kalpavriksh delves into communities’ concerns with protected areas, potential implications of draft global targets on area-based conservation, and domestic legal tools and locally determined strategies to strengthen community rights in this context. Read more ▸
Youth Group Chair: Only a human rights-based approach will address biodiversity loss
In this World View article published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, Josefa Cariño Tauli shares a personal perspective, as a young Indigenous woman, on why it is so critical to heed long-standing calls for human rights, justice and equity in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Read more ▸
Leadership urgently needed to deliver an equitable and comprehensive global biodiversity framework
Through the major caucuses, ICCA Consortium Members and Honorary members advocated for recognition of human rights, collective lands, territories and resources of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, environmental defenders, gender equality, future generations and more in the fourth round of in-person negotiations of the post-2020 framework. Read more ▸
A tentative turning point: Recap of UN CBD negotiations in Geneva
We must take stock of the March 2022 negotiations in Geneva to ensure a strong outcome of the next round in Nairobi in June. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium analysis of key targets in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
As the fourth round of negotiations on the post-2020 framework begin in Nairobi, we take a look at the key issues identified by our membership. Read more ▸
Taking a stand: the non-negotiable elements of the next global biodiversity framework
The roles, rights and responsibilities of Indigenous Peoples and local communities must be appropriately recognized in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and in the reimagining of conservation. Read more ▸
Voices from custodians of territories of life on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Six key foundations for sustaining territories of life from deep reflection amongst ICCA Consortium Members in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on the post-2020 framework. Read more ▸
Reimagining conservation: Integrating human rights in the development and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Several ICCA Consortium Members and Honorary members contributed to this engaging side event at the 5th session of the UN Environment Assembly. Read more ▸
Briefing: Indigenous Peoples, local communities and area-based conservation targets
This new briefing paper seeks to clarify the intersections among the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and the land and resource rights, collective governance, and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Read more ▸
Implementing a human rights based approach: A briefing for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
A new briefing presents what is urgently needed to effectively adopt a human rights-based approach across the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Read more ▸
Decolonizing conservation in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Parties in the upcoming negotiations must align the goals and targets of the post-2020 framework with the self-determined values, visions, and leadership of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ensure a healthy and sustainable planet for all. Read more ▸
Civil society calls on world leaders to put human rights at the centre of environmental policy
The ICCA Consortium joins over 160 civil society organisations and academics in an open letter calling on world leaders to integrate human rights into global and national environmental policy and practice. Read more ▸
COP15: Supporting Indigenous Peoples and local communities is the biggest opportunity for a successful post-2020 biodiversity framework
Supporting Indigenous Peoples and local communities to secure their rights and to strengthen their self-determined governance systems, sustain their cultures, territories and ways of life on their own terms is one of the biggest opportunities for transformative change in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Read more ▸
New guidance on integrating human rights into the global biodiversity framework
New Analysis Brief offers guidance on applying the human rights-based approach in the new Global Biodiversity Framework. Read more ▸
Growing calls to place human rights at the center of new global biodiversity framework
New policy briefs underscore the interlinkages between human rights and biodiversity and share practical guidance on how to apply a human rights-based approach in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which is currently under negotiation by 196 governments. Read more ▸
