Alert: Local Communities in France Risk Losing 30,000 Territories as the Senate Begins to Debate law proposal 782
This legislative move comes at a time when the French government, other nations, and observers are discussing how to further advance the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The KM-GBF explicitly calls for upholding land rights and the rights of Local Communities, including the promotion of traditional territories. Read more ▸