Resumen de la COP16 del CDB: Avances en materia de gobernanza del nexo entre clima, ambiente y salud

The document outlines key decisions from COP16 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB), focusing on the integration of biodiversity with climate action, public health, and marine protection. It highlights the adoption of the Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health, the establishment of the Cali Fund for genetic resource benefit-sharing, and new governance structures for indigenous peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendants. The brief also emphasizes the need for continued technical and scientific support to implement these decisions within national biodiversity strategies.

• COP16 adopted Decision 16/22 to integrate biodiversity and climate change governance, focusing on collaboration between CDB and UNFCCC focal points, synergies for the carbon cycle and adaptation, and the use of nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based approaches for disaster risk reduction.
• The Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health (Decision 16/19) was approved to improve the management of the human relationship with nature, featuring nearly 100 actions to be integrated into national biodiversity strategies and plans (NBSAPs) in alignment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
• Decision 16/16 was adopted after eight years of negotiations to identify and protect ecologically or biologically significant marine areas both within and outside national jurisdictions, providing a basis for the BBNJ Agreement.
• The conference advanced social biodiversity governance through Decision 16/14 on diverse values of nature, Decision 16/5 which created a permanent forum for indigenous peoples and local communities (the Subsidiary Body to Article 8j), and Decision 16/6 regarding the role of Afro-descendants.
• A new global financial mechanism called the Cali Fund was established, requiring large companies that benefit commercially from digital sequence information of genetic resources to contribute 1% of their profits to the implementation of the CDB.
• The Parties invited IPBES to conduct future assessments on four specific themes: pollution and biodiversity, cities and biodiversity, biodiversity and poverty, and biodiversity and climate change.

APA

Willetts, L. (2025). Resumen de la COP16 del CDB: Avances en materia de gobernanza del nexo entre clima, ambiente y salud. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI_CDB_COP16_ResumenPoliticas.pdf

Chicago

Willetts, Liz. Resumen de la COP16 del CDB: Avances en materia de gobernanza del nexo entre clima, ambiente y salud. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, 2025. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI_CDB_COP16_ResumenPoliticas.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{willetts2025resumen, author = {Willetts, Liz}, title = {{Resumen de la COP16 del CDB: Avances en materia de gobernanza del nexo entre clima, ambiente y salud}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = feb, url = {https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/IAI_CDB_COP16_ResumenPoliticas.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }