Global Development Conference 2023 – Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

Mainstreaming biodiversity is no longer a luxury but an urgency. It has become imperative to integrate actions or policies related to biodiversity into broader development processes or policies such as those aimed at poverty reduction, growth, or tackling climate change. The theme of biodiversity and development cuts across disciplines and sectors, and calls for capacity building , especially in LMICs which also stand to be most impacted by biodiversity degradation.

Eight thematic themes:

• Alternative, nature-based solutions for sustainability challenges (including perspectives from indigenous people)
• From ecosystem valuation (methodological approaches) and political commitments to implementation of the new GBF
• Mainstreaming biodiversity and scaling up mainstreaming
• Biodiversity loss, poverty and global inequality – links and trade-offs
• Financing nature and biodiversity – domestic, international, private sector
• Biodiversity governance – local and international
• Technology and Innovation – links to biodiversity and ecosystem preservation
• Interdisciplinary research & capacity building – including diverse knowledge systems