Nature for Life
24-28 September 2020 | Virtual
This series of virtual events focuses on how protecting, restoring and sustainably managing nature can help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Each day will culminate in key messages to be fed into UN biodiversity-related discussions. On SDG Day, participants will consider mitigating climate change strategies, how nature can help to prevent disease and improve food security, building long-term water security through nature-based solutions, and ensuring nature-based livelihoods. During virtual sessions on Business and Finance Day, discussants will consider how to transform financial systems and redirect finance and investments in order to accelerate nature-based solutions, and accelerate the creation of a nature-based planetary safety net.
On Global Ambition Day, sessions will unpack the ‘what,’ the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of constructing a nature-based safety net as a solution to the current planetary emergency of a nature crisis, a biodiversity crisis, a health crisis, and an inequality crisis.
IISD, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, will produce daily digital coverage from the event “Nature for Life.” Kindly return to this page on Thursday, 24 September 2020, for more information.
Event Resource
IISD/ENB Meeting Coverage
- Biodiversity Summit, 30 September 2020, Virtual
- 75th Anniversary of the UN, 21 September 2020, Virtual
- SDG Moment, 18 September 2020, Virtual
- 2020 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2020), 7-16 July 2020
- Coverage of Selected Side Events at HLPF 2020, 7-16 July 2020
- 2nd Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 24-29 February 2020, Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), Rome, Italy
- UN Summits Week 2019, 23-27 September 2019, UN Headquarters, New York
- Coverage of Selected Side Events at the UN Summits Week 2019, 22-27 September 2019, New York
- 1st Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 27-30 August 2019, UN Office, Nairobi, Kenya
- 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference, 14-29 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
IISD Resources
- Subscription Page for IISD Reporting Services Peer-to-Peer Mailing Lists (including BIODIVERSITY-L,SDG, CLIMATE-L, FORESTS-L, OCEANS-L, and Regional Updates)
- SDG Knowledge Hub - An Online Resource Center for News and Commentary Regarding the Implementation of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Linkages Update - International Environment and Sustainable Development News