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This is the first webinar in a webinar series set to provide a briefing about the Bern Process since it started in 2019, focusing on key efforts since 2024 when the  Bern III Conference took place and showcasing collaborative work by UNEP, the co-chairs and the MEAs to accelerate cooperation and collaborative actions for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF). 

Date: Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Time: 17:00 - 18:30 EAT

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These actions include on-the-ground cooperation and synergies guidance, decisions/resolutions by the governing bodies, events, capacity-building workshops that took place at multiple levels. Recognizing that there is mutual benefit to be found in cooperation at all appropriate levels, the way forward on the Bern Process to continue its support to future planning with respect to the role of multiple MEAs in supporting implementation of the KM-GBF remains relevant and crucial. 

The webinar aims to particularly reflect on: 

  • An overview of the Bern Process and how it further increased implementation effectiveness through on-the-ground activities at global and regional levels.  
  • How did the Co-chairs promote the practical actions of the Bern III Conference globally and nationally through their roles?  
  • How the MEAs secretariats accelerated synergies for the KM-GBF 
  • Future steps to be taken to align with the Global Review and the convening of a future Conference 

This webinar is organized by UNEP, CBD Secretariat, Mexico, Sweden and Switzerland 

For more information, please reach out to Diane Klaimi, Programme Management Officer, Law Division, UNEP 

The Bern Process has been driving effective cooperation and collaboration among and between the parties of over 16 multilateral environmental agreements in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) implementation since 2019. Bern I and Bern II Consultations enabled effective collaboration among the MEAs that led to a strengthened role of MEAs in the KM-GBF. In January 2024, UNEP convened the Bern III Conference on cooperation among the biodiversity-related conventions for the implementation of. The conference brought together representatives of parties and secretariats of 16 MEAs, together with a range if other stakeholders, organizations and individual experts. The open exchange on cooperation to implement the KM-GBF resulted in a wide range of concrete ideas for increased collaboration among MEAs at global, regional and national levels. This included recognition of the value of the conference itself, and the potential for building on the “Bern Process”. The idea of an associated seminar series or Webinars was one of the suggestions made by participants.  

This is a Tentative Agenda

17:00 - 17:10: Overview of the Bern Process  

  • The Bern Process on Cooperation among the MEAs and how UNEP supported the implementation KM-GBF, by engaging the different clusters of conventions including chemicals and wastes, desertification and climate change, developing and rolling out integrated approaches, mapping tools,  
  • Support to the global synergies agenda more broadly through UNEA and through regional capacity building workshops in Africa and Latin America in a whole of society approach.  

Ms. Diane Klaimi, Treaties Programme Manager, UNEP 

17:10 - 17:30: Bern III Conference Practical Outcomes,  

  • How the Cochairs worked at the conference itself and afterwards to make sure the report on outcomes were effectively up taken by the governing bodies through statements and side events. How did countries use the report and what can we do better to make sure the outcomes are upscaled? 

 Clarisse Kehler Siebert, Co-Chair Bern III, Senior Policy Advisor at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency  

  • How the cochairs further integrated and promoted the actions through follow-up applying some of the solutions at national levels and through national coordination mechanisms, what worked or didn’t work (10’) 

Camila Zepeda Lizama, Mexico, Co-Chair Bern III, Head of International Affairs Unit at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico (tbc) 

 17:30 - 17: 50: Strengthening the engagement of the chemicals and wastes related conventions  

17:50 - 18:00: Open Q&A Session with the Audience (Impressions, Questions to Panellists and Comments  

18:00 - 18:15: Closing Session 

  • Future of the Bern Process, Switzerland, UNEP 

Moderation: Ms. Tita Korvenoja, Chief Environmental Conventions and policy Branch, UNEP  

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