This week, UN Biodiversity joined the Atlantic Forest Conference in Brazil — a landmark pre-#COP30 event hosted by the Government of the state of Paraná and organized in collaboration with several Brazilian sub-national governments. The conference underscored the importance of regional cooperation in implementing global biodiversity and climate goals, including #Target3 and #Target12 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #KMGBF. We engaged with sub-national governments and local authorities, representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities, and environmental leaders with a view to strengthening local action in support of the implementation of the #KMGBF in Brazil—a mega biodiverse country and host of #COP30. At the conference, governors from seven states in Brazil’s South and Southeast regions came together to sign the Curitiba Charter, a formal commitment to protect and sustainably manage the Atlantic Forest — a biome that spans 17 states.
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Nature-based urban planning and design; Subnational governance of urban-rural linkages for the green and blue economy; tourism destination management
2moProud of my country and of the SCBD, Bianca Brasil! Many groundbreaking initiatives announced at that meeting... Brazil's leadership in climate, biodiversity and land management from climate COP 30 in Belem, to migratory species COP 15 in Campo Grande, and then to biodiversity COP 17 in Yerevan, reminds me of UNCED 92 in Rio, when Brazil also hosted the birth of the three Rio Conventions! I was there in the "green zone" in the aterro do Flamengo, barely 24 years old... And I note Rodrigo Perpétuo at your side - Brazilian cities and States will make all the difference!