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Preparing the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Search Thursday, 18 February 2021 Bocaina Mountains, Paraty wedges © MMA / Marco Terranova After closing the UN Decade on Biodiversity, countries are this year negotiating a new 10 year agenda to halt the accelerating loss of biodiversity. This new and overarching global biodiversity framework, dubbed the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, is to be adopted at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15), planned later in 2021 in Kunming, China. A Consultation Workshop of Biodiversity-Related Conventions on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework was organized by UNEP in cooperation with the CBD Secretariat  and  with participation of the governing bodies and the secretariats of the biodiversity-related conventions and other Multilateral Environmental Agreements. The World Heritage Convention was represented by 4 members of the Bureau (Bahrain, China, Spain and Uganda

My word is my bond: Linking sovereign debt with national sustainability commitments

My word is my bond: Linking sovereign debt with national sustainability commitments Photo: MiniStocker/Shutterstock At the same time, unprecedented levels of investment will be needed to fund COVID-19 stimulus and relief packages, as well as to address the challenges posed by climate change and the degradation of ecosystems that regulate the air, water and soil on which we all depend. In this context, policy makers, the private sector, and investors are asking whether the solutions to these challenges can be linked. These connections are, in fact, already being made in the financial markets. In 2019, sustainability-linked loans (SSL) tying the interest rate to a company’s performance reducing its impact on climate and the environment, increased by over 168% from a year earlier, with major agricultural firms including Bunge, Louis Dreyfus and Wilmer among the issuers. The growth in these loans is expected to continue. The market for sovereign bonds that finance sustainable devel

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