About this Event
As part of a continuous dialogue process, this dinner conversation aims at sharing best practices, identifying common challenges and opportunities around HRBA and exploring how best to integrate globally recognized human rights principles into national and international biodiversity and climate policies.
Date: Monday 3 June 2024
Time: 18:30 – 21:30
Venue: Gustav Stresemann Institut, Langer Grabenweg 68, 53175 Bonn, Germany
Directions: From World Conference Center, Heussallee/Museumsmeile
Tram 16 (to Bonn Max-Löbner-Str./Friesdorf)
or Tram 66 (to Bonn Robert-Schuman-Platz)
RSVP link: https://tinyurl.com/ycx836dk
RSVP deadline: Thursday 30 May 2024
Contact: Ashanapuri Hertz ashanapuri.hertz@su.se +46 76 795 62 82 | Alexandra Goossens-Ishii alexandra.mg@sgi-ouna.org +41 79 851 24 26
About the Series
The functioning of human societies and ecosystems is interdependent with the state of climate and biodiversity. The Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) recognize the importance of respecting, protecting and fulfilling human rights. The latter especially states that its implementation requires a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA). An HRBA ensures that policies, governance and actions actively seek ways to support and promote human rights in their design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning. It recognizes that actions, policies and projects have different impacts on people and seeks to consider these impacts, addressing their root causes to ensure the effective enjoyment of human rights for all. Adopting an HRBA for biodiversity and climate action involves identifying power dynamics, inequalities and discrimination, as well as providing transparency and strong accountability through monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
Recognizing the diversity of actors, as well as their associated knowledge, views, experience and proposals, in addressing biodiversity and climate change in a synergistic manner, there is a need for actors to come closer to convergence on what an HRBA applied to biodiversity and climate action means.
The overarching goal of this dialogue process is to advance the understanding and strengthen the capacity of various actors, both duty bearers and rights holders, in implementing an HRBA for biodiversity and climate action. This will contribute to the implementation of the KMGBF across all levels and other international frameworks related to biodiversity and climate change.
This dialogue process comprises a series of three workshops followed by a multi-actor dialogue seminar, that aims to advance efforts in addressing gaps between internationally agreed framework and implementation at the national and sub-national levels.
The workshops, as parts of the pre-dialogue process, will be held with stakeholder groups spanning duty bearers and rights holders, whereas the multi-actor dialogue seminar will be attended by representatives of participants from a mix of actors taking part in the previous workshops.
As part of a dialogue process, three workshops will be conducted with diverse stakeholder groups. Each workshop will be held with different configurations of actors, taking into account asymmetric power issues that can arise from diverse knowledge systems.
