Statement on Agriculture and Biodiversity in the Context of CBD COP17 Agenda Item 18(d)
Statement by the ICCA Consortium to the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
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 ▸
Holding Difference: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Future of Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity
This commentary is organized into two parts. Part I distills five considerations for negotiators developing the modus operandi of the permanent Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) (SB8J) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Part II sets out the institutional history and reasoning from which those considerations follow. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Statement: 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Statement by the ICCA Consortium to the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 18(c): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity and Island Biodiversity
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 10: Modus Operandi
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 8(b): Financial Mechanism
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 17(a): Matters related to the work programme of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 17(c): Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA)
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia. Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 17(b): Strategic Review and Update of the Expanded Programme of Work on Forest Biodiversity
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia. Read more ▸
Statement on the CBD COP17 Agenda Item 8(a): Resource Mobilization
Statement by the ICCA Consortium at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Yerevan, Armenia Read more ▸
What Travels With a Sequence? Provenance and Governance in the Next Phase of Digital Sequence Information
The digital sequence information (DSI) Multilateral Mechanism allows monetary benefit-sharing without tracing every sequence to every downstream use. But that does not make provenance, knowledge relationships, or Indigenous and community governance irrelevant. The next phase of DSI implementation raises a different question: What should remain connected to biological information as it moves through global data infrastructures? Read more ▸
Grassroots Voices Shaping the Conversation on Rangelands and Pastoralism: Beyond UNCCD COP17
The 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) took place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from August 17 to 28, 2026. Read more ▸
From Pastoralist Voices to Territories of Life: Book Launch at UNCCD COP17
Stories of Governance, Care, and Resilience from Pastoral Communities Read more ▸
Indigenous communities in the Amazon are organizing to access the forest fines compensation mechanism
Instead of paying unaffordable fines, Indigenous communities in Peru are now conserving forests as their monitoring and early warning mechanisms gain recognition. Read more ▸
The Role of Intermediaries in Enabling Direct Funding for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Reflections From the Practice of Rainforest Foundation US Read more ▸
Sustaining Provider-Country Confidence in the Multilateral Mechanism for Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
Allocation, provenance, and certificate recognition shape provider-country confidence in the digital sequence information (DSI) Multilateral Mechanism Read more ▸
Recognition is Only the Beginning: Indigenous and Traditional Territories After Target 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework
As countries prepare to translate international biodiversity goals into national policy, the recognition of Indigenous and Traditional Territories must preserve the distinction between territorial governance and conservation classification Read more ▸
Open Forum on Indigenous Voices: Defending Territories and Ancestral Knowledge
Commemorating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples through frontline accounts of territorial defense and the fight against epistemic extractivism. Read more ▸
