UNCTAD-BioTrade

28/01/2025

🌿 Happening Now: Panel I - “Setting the Scene – High-Level Remarks”

This session explores how trade policies and instruments can support global biodiversity goals. Panelists share insights on progress achieved at United Nations Biodiversity and its importance in addressing the triple planetary crisis.

👉 Follow the event online: bit.ly/4g5XpP8
🌐 More information: bit.ly/3WnIMQk

UN Trade and Development
Geneva Environment Network
World Trade Organization - WTO
CITES

28/01/2025

🔴 Join Us TODAY for a Briefing Session on Achieving Biodiversity Goals Through Trade! What’s on the agenda?
✅ Key outcomes from United Nations Biodiversity
✅ How trade can support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ( )
✅ Opportunities for collaboration on , , and
📍 Location: Palais des Nations, Geneva & Online
⏰ Time: 14:30 - 17:00 CET
🤝 Co-organized by: UN Trade and Development and Geneva Environment Network - Réseau environnement de Genève (GEN)

This session will bring together global leaders, policymakers, and sustainability experts to discuss key takeaways from COP16 and explore how trade can drive biodiversity-friendly solutions.
Be Part of the Conversation!
🎥 Watch Live: https://bit.ly/4hyTnjn
📝 Register Here: shorturl.at/V69FE
🔗 Learn More: bit.ly/3WnIMQk

27/01/2025

📣Join Us for a High-Level Expert Meeting on Trade, Investment, Climate, and Sustainable Development
UN Trade and Development is hosting an Ad Hoc Expert Meeting to introduce its Draft Guides for Mainstreaming and Policies into Nationally Determined Contributions ( ) and gather feedback.
Organized in partnership with the International Trade Centre, this session will explore how trade and investment policies can advance goals, support the implementation of climate plans, and create opportunities in the context of NDCs. The session will also include insights from representatives of The Gambia and Madagascar, sharing their experiences with piloting the Trade Guide.
📅 Date: 31 January 2025
📍 Location: Room XXV, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Online registration is required for all participants. If you are unable to attend in person, you can follow the session via live audio stream.

Registered participants will receive the live stream link via email one hour before the session begins.

👉We look forward to your participation! Click here to register: https://shorturl.at/etRg2

23/01/2025

¿Quieres fortalecer tus prácticas de sostenibilidad y alinearte con los Principios y Criterios de de la ONU Comercio y Desarrollo?

Este taller interactivo-práctico está diseñado para empresas, productores, cooperativas y proyectos que desean implementar acciones más inclusivas, sostenibles y favorables a la .

A través de la Herramienta de Autoevaluación de BioComercio, un recurso público, intuitivo y fácil de usar, podrás:
✅ Evaluar tus prácticas de sostenibilidad.
✅ Identificar áreas para alinear tu empresa o producción con los principios de BioComercio.
✅ Comparar los Principios y Criterios de BioComercio con más de 300 estándares de sostenibilidad relacionados con la biodiversidad.

🗓️ 27 de enero,15:30 - 16:30 CET | 10:30 - 11:30 (hora La Paz, Bolivia)
📍 Online (Zoom)

Regístrate aquí: https://bit.ly/4h4LGBv
Más información en: https://bit.ly/3E7ojJc

22/01/2025

📌 Join us for a Briefing on Achieving Biodiversity Goals Through Trade!

This briefing will focus on:
✅ Updates on the key outcomes of United Nations Biodiversity CBD COP16.
✅ How trade can support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF)
✅ Opportunities for collaboration to promote sustainable trade, biodiversity conservation, and equitable development.

Co-organized by UN Trade and Development and Geneva Environment Network, this event will spotlight innovative strategies and partnerships for aligning trade with global biodiversity goals.

➡️Register here: https://shorturl.at/V69FE

🔴 Webcast:https://bit.ly/4g5XpP8
🔗 Learn more:https://bit.ly/3WnIMQk

15/01/2025

06/01/2025

EVENT ALERT!
🌱Advancing sustainable trade & biodiversity conservation on VSS 🌱
👉 Next week, on January 7, 8, and 10, 2025, leading experts will come together for a series of virtual roundtables on Voluntary Sustainability Standards ( ). The sessions will focus on vital discussions around sustainable trade and biodiversity conservation.

🎯 Co-organized by UN Trade and Development BioTrade Initiative, The United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS) and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, the topics of discussions are:
· Current approaches of VSS to hashtag conservation.
· How VSS can effectively contribute to biodiversity conservation.
· Challenges and opportunities faced by low-income countries and SMEs;
· Aligning with Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ( ) and
· Emerging regulations related to VSS

Stay tuned for insights and developments.
Learn more at👉🏽 bit.ly/UNCTAD-BioTrade

06/01/2025

📅2024: A Year of Impact for UN Trade and Development's BioTrade Initiative!
We’re thrilled to share some of this year’s highlights:
• Organised the 7th BioTrade Congress & the first ever COP16 Trade Day with over 400 participants from 50 countries.
• Hosted 15 events, including four meetings of the Informal Working Group on Trade and Biodiversity Statistics (jointly organised with UNCTAD statistics
• The Principles and Criteria are currently applied in more than 80 countries!

Thank you to our partners for advancing , empowering communities, and conserving through BioTrade.

Here’s to continuing this incredible journey in 2025!

19/12/2024

Today, 19 December, UN Trade and Development is joining the celebration of the 2nd anniversary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ( ).
Let us reflect on some interesting facts demonstrating how can promote implementation of the goals and targets and achieve the vision of living in harmony with Nature.

that

👉🏼11 out of the 23 targets have indicators with linkages to trade

👉🏼 can be part of the solution to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and support the

👉🏼Biodiversity-based products trade accounting for 17% of global trade – valued at $3.7 trillion - and contributing approximately 7% the world’s GDP

👉🏼The TraBio statistical tool and the BioTrade Principles and Criteria can help member States and define their national targets when developing National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in the framework of the CBD

👉🏼 The BioTrade Principles and Criteria are directly relevant to 9 out of the 23 KMGBF Targets and to Goal B

👉🏼 can create income for people and communities - particularly in biodiversity-rich areas, motivating them to conserve and wisely use , guaranteeing their source of livelihood

Find out more about the TraBio: https://shorturl.at/Y33Nk

Find out more about the BioTrade Principles and Criteria: https://shorturl.at/J3TJY

Recently at organized the first ever to showcase how can support implementation. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3ZpCvWr

05/11/2024

Read UN Trade and Development latest news story on the first ever "Trade Day" (26 October 2024, Cali, Colombia), co-organised with United Nations Biodiversity, World Trade Organization - WTO secretariat and UN Environment Programme: ow.ly/bX8650TYmom.

Thanks to the joint efforts of all partners along with session organisers of the and the preceding Informal sessions on and (24 October 2024, Cali, Colombia), and in particular along with its Principles and Criteria were put in the spotlight as means for conserving biodiversity and supporting implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ( ).

👁Read more about the and the informal sessions on trade and biodiversity here: bit.ly/3ZpCvWr
🔎Learn about and its Principles and Criteria and how they empower smallholders, peoples, local communities, , and other social and solidarity entities while respecting the and protecting the : https://tinyurl.com/evza8ky6

UN Trade and Development BioTrade Initiative would like to extend its special thanks to Nations Biodiversity, World Trade Organization - WTO , UN Environment Programme, UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE), MacArthur Foundation, Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS), TRAFFIC, Consumers International, Post2020 Biodiversity Framework - EU support, NatureFinance, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, SEI - Stockholm Environment Institute, International Trade Centre

The inaugural “Trade Day” took place on 26 October during the at the United Nations-led 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) held in Cali, Colombia.

28/10/2024

Happening now at .
Join UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) side event on "Advancing The Biodiversity Plan through : Lessons learned, best practices and impacts of the Global BioTrade Programme".
🕞10h10-11h30
📍 Cocuy - Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room, Plaza One, Blue Zone

Join the side event and learn more about:
🔶the BioTrade Principles and Criteria: https://shorturl.at/ncBAa
🔶the BioTrade Self-Assessment Tool: https://shorturl.at/pBoUM
🔶the Trade and Biodiversity (hashtag ) Statistical Tool: https://lnkd.in/dqv9SrcV

Additional information regarding the meeting is available here: https://lnkd.in/dGa5M8dS

26/10/2024

Today's FIRST EVER at
🕞 09:00 - 17:30 hrs. COT.
📍 KMGBF Pavillion Centro de Eventos Valle Del Pacífico (CEVP),
🔗 bit.ly/3ZpCvWr ( meeting page with link to livestream)

If you are at Cali, Colombia come to the event, otherwise watch the event online (using the above link) and listen to insightful interventions of distinguished speakers showing how:

✔ can be a valuable tool for implementing the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ( ).

✔ policies and cooperation can help reverse biodiversity loss by promoting hashtag and circular practices.

✔ empowers women, indigenous peoples and local communities for sustainable and resilient economies in harmony with the environment

✔ policies can be leveraged to support sustainable management of marine resources and further development of the global ocean economy with respect to marine hashtag .

✔Successful practices of innovative and specialized help achieve and social goals and can be upscaled to mainstream markets.

The ‘Trade Day’ is co-organized by Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Trade Organization (WTO) and the Secretariats and UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with other partners.

is organized with the support of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) under the Global BioTrade programme: Linking trade, biodiversity and sustainable development and the UN Environment Programme through its partnership in the GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub (TRADE Hub)