1. COP 16 – Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Oct 21-Nov 1 in Cali, Colombia
The UN biodiversity summit known as COP16 officially opened in Cali, Colombia. Considered the world’s most important event to conserve biodiversity will host some 15,000 attendees, including a dozen heads of State, 103 ministers and over 1,000 international journalists.
Aiming to promote international cooperation, agree on investments to protect ecosystems and strengthen global environmental policies, COP16 takes as its roadmap the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a landmark plan to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity for 2030, adopted at COP15 in Canada.
Secretary-General António Guterres urged delegations from some 190 countries to “make peace with nature” and shore up a plan to stop habitat loss, save endangered species, and preserve our planet’s precious ecosystems
The event aims to continue the dialogue initiated at COP15 with the Montreal Call, a plea for transformative changes to our lifestyles, our economies and our values. Some inspiring and concrete initiatives being shared by Quebec Civil Society attendees are aimed at making transformative changes in our economic and value systems and include: the City of Montréal’s circular economy roadmap, the Government of Quebec’s law on planned obsolescence, the Government of Canada’s fight against single-use plastics.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cop16-montreal-call-2022-cali-204200125.html
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155931
2. COP 29, Nov 11–24 in Baku, Azerbaijan
This event will include the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 29), the 19th meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 19), and the sixth meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 6) that will convene to complete the first enhanced transparency framework and the new collective quantified goal on finance, among other matters.
Recommended Action: Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau (copy Stephen Guillebeault, Minister of the Environment and Lisa Marie Barron, MP Nanaimo Ladysmith) urging the Canadian government and representatives to the COP 29 Conferenece to support a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
https://www.unep.org/events/conference/un-climate-change-conference-unfccc-cop-29