The EMG, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and with support from the Government of Switzerland, convened a Nexus Dialogue on Biodiversity and Human Security on 2–3 May 2018 in Geneva. The dialogue explored the vital role of biodiversity in supporting human security and wellbeing, and opportunities to strengthen its integration into policies and practices across sectors.
The EMG, in collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), organized a three-part Nexus Dialogue series on Human Rights and the Environment to strengthen understanding of the human right to a healthy environment and promote more coherent, rights-based environmental action across the UN system.
The EMG, in collaboration with UNU-FLORES, organized the Nexus Dialogue on Food System Resilience through Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) on 7 June 2021 as an independent dialogue of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. The event explored how a more integrated approach to managing land, water, biodiversity and other natural resources could help build more resilient and sustainable food systems.
The EMG, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), organized a two-part series of virtual Nexus Dialogues on 29-20 March 2021 to explore the links between gender equality, biodiversity and human rights.
The sustainable bioeconomy is gaining growing recognition as a vital pathway to addressing interconnected global challenges and driving transformative change across sectors. In this context, the Environment Management Group (EMG) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) co-organized a two-part Nexus Dialogue series on Sustainable Bioeconomy.
The EMG Issue Management Group (IMG) on Biodiversity was established in 2021 to support implementation of the UN Common Approach to Biodiversity.
This report highlights the relevance of biodiversity to the work of UN entities and its multiple benefits across the SDGs, human development, health and food security, human rights, and to global efforts to achieve poverty eradication, gender equality, climate resilience, chemicals management, sustainable economies and intergenerational equity.
The Common Approach to Biodiversity is the UN system’s shared framework for making biodiversity a consideration across the work of the whole UN system, with each organization contributing through its own mandate. The Common Approach was endorsed in 2021 by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination and developed through the High-level Committee on Programmes.
This flyer provides a quick picture of the report prepared by the UN Environment Management Group (EMG) on UN System contribution to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity which was submitted to the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
This report presents why biodiversity matters to sectors, and how the different policy sectors can help maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services. A joint statement by the UN system serves to illustrate that opportunities for improved mainstreaming exist, and that public institutions, such as the UN, can help set the framework conditions for actions by the private sector, households and individuals to act.The report was made available as an information document for the COP of the CBD in Nagoya in 2010.