With the ongoing intertwined biodiversity, climate, inequality, and food insecurity crises in focus, this exchange aims to bridge knowledge communities, policy and practice actors with a focus on human rights and biodiversity protection. The exchange will explore how a human rights-based approach can be “translated” into development cooperation, biodiversity policy, as the ongoing CBD negotiations, and into different local contexts across regions.

Via “bottom-up learning” cases, shared by representatives of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) and associated local partners, the exchange will further provide an opportunity for policymakers, program officers and negotiators to contextualize challenges and ways forward in safeguarding biodiversity, people’s lives and livelihoods. This will include the key roles that IPLCs and environmental human rights defenders play and the risks if their participation and rights are not sufficiently included in policy and implementation of conservation programmes.

Translation from English to Spanish and Portuguese will be available and the event will be recorded. Register to the dialogue here. See full program and speakers bios on the main event page.  Registration is required to attend.

Contact: maria.olund@gu.se for questions or suggestions of speakers and participants.

Questions that will be addressed in the exchange:

1) What is a HRBA and how does it support the safeguarding of biodiversity, sustainable use and livelihoods?

2) What are the key roles of IPLCs and environmental human rights defenders in tackling biodiversity loss? What are the risks if IPLCs, their participation, rights and tenure is not sufficiently included in policy and implementation of conservation programs?

3) How can a human rights-based approach be translated into local contexts to global and vice-versa? How can HRBA and biodiversity be implemented into practice and policy at different levels?