Youth Statement on Stakeholder Engagement

by Mariana Calderon During the opening ceremonies of the COP, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network was scheduled to deliver a youth intervention, but, like many other observers, we were pushed so far down the schedule by lengthy State speeches that our moment to speak never came. So, we decided to create our own opportunity. I spent much of today drafting a statement on item 5.4, Engagement of...

Day 2 of Working Group 2: Financing Biodiversity

How to finance biodiversity, or, how parties will talk about it for a very long time by Mariana Calderon Working Group II -- Financial Resources and Mechanism: Day two of COP 11 to the Convention on Biological Diversity--my first day at the conference venue--opened rather earnestly, with scores of delegates still registering, picking up their complementary messenger bags and water bottles, and...