UNCTAD-BioTrade

📣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

¿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

📅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!

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

Trade takes centre stage at UN biodiversity conference 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.

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)