Rio Conventions Pavilion

The Rio Conventions Pavilion Journey 2023

With the world at a critical juncture, requiring immediate, urgent, and strengthened efforts to address the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation in order to ensure a sustainable future for people and planet, critical negotiations are being convened under the Conventions and GEF. 

These aim to raise the ambition of actions to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, to restore and maintain healthy landscapes, to align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework that will attempt to halt the loss of biodiversity, and to use the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund to strongly support these objectives.

The Rio Conventions Pavilion will play an important role in convening discussions aimed to build coordinated approaches and partnerships towards these interrelated, complementary and essential goals.

For the first time, the Presidents of the last Conference of Parties (COP) of the three Rio Conventions have decided to join forces. With three weeks to go before the opening of COP28 in Dubai, the Presidents: 

• Underlined the urgency of the situation and the inextricable links between climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity;
• Called for a coordinated approach both at international and national levels to tackle these issues in a holistic way;
• Pleaded for more cooperation between the three Conventions and their secretariats;
• And asked for urgent, concrete measures to protect the world population, environment, lands and biodiversity to ensure a sustainable future for new generations.

Read the full joint statement on behalf of the three Rio Conventions.

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