The AFi Coaliton at COP16

The AFi Coalition is on site in Cali, Colombia to host a range of events as part of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 16^th Conference of Parties (COP16). Kicking off this week, the summit brings together a range of stakeholders, including governments, NGOs, and the private sector, to discuss the practical action needed to preserve nature and biodiversity.

This will be the first biodiversity COP since the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted in 2022. This year’s meeting will focus on how much progress country signatories have made towards implementing the goals of the GBF, based on their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).

Several AFi Coalition members are hosting or participating in events in Cali over the next two weeks. See what’s on the agenda below – check our listings by individual Coalition member (showing events hosted by or featuring them) or by date:

COP16 events by AFi Coalition member

• CDP: Join CDP at COP16
• Ceres: Ceres at Biodiversity COP16
• Conservation International: Nature House schedule
• Global Canopy: Global Canopy at COP16 and COP29
• Imaflora: Imaflora will attend COP 16 to monitor discussions on financing mechanisms for biodiversity conservation
• Proforest: Proforest at COP16 Colombia
• Rainforest Alliance: UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 - Rainforest Alliance Delegation and Events
• Rainforest Foundation Norway: Meet us in Cali: Rainforest Foundation Norway at COP16
• Rights & Resources Initiative: RRI engagements at CBD COP16
• The Nature Conservancy: TNC Agenda at COP16
• World Resources Institute: WRI at COP16, the UN Biodiversity Conference | World Resources Institute
• WWF: WWF at COP16: Demanding urgent action for nature

Keep an eye on the AFi LinkedIn and Twitter/X accounts over the next couple of weeks to find out more about the Coalition’s work at COP16.

COP16 events by date:

Featuring only events that have been organised by or are featuring an AFi Coalition member.

Monday 21 October

• Sustainable Forest Management: Impact in Strategic Territories (Featuring Rainforest Alliance) 
  21 October, 9:15-10:45am | Banco de Occidente, Sala 3 
• The Action Initiative for KMGBF High-level Side Event (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  21 October, 1:20-2:40pm | Cano Cristales - CEE meeting room, Plaza 1, Blue Zone 
• Tackling Biodiversity and Climate Change Together: Risks, Opportunities, and Solutions (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  21 October, 2-3pm | Big Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Multi-stakeholder platforms: A productive strategy for biodiversity conservation and deforestation control (Featuring Proforest) 
  21 October, 3-4pm | Banco de Bogota  
• How DCF supply chains can contribute to the global implementation of GBF: Transitioning China's soft commodity sourcing towards a nature-positive global market (Featuring WWF) 
  21 October, 6pm | Farallones - Youth meeting room, Plaza One 

Tuesday 22 October

• Women’s Voices on Rights-based Conservation: The Role of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and Pastoralist Women in Protecting the World’s Biodiversity (Featuring Rights & Resources Initiative) 
  22 October, 10-11:30am | Women’s Hub Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Direct finance for communities to protect DRC’s intact rainforests (Featuring Rainforest Foundation Norway) 
  22 October, 10:30-11:30am | Finance and Biodiversity Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Inspiring Investments: Private Sector Contributions to Nature-based Solutions (Featuring WRI) 
  22 October, 10:30-11:30am | Centro de Eventos Valle del Pacífico, Nature Positive Pavillion, Blue Zone, Big Room 
• Biodiversity conservation models and monitoring technologies for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  22 October, 11:40am-1pm | Paramos - NGOs meeting room, Blue Zone 
• Indigenous Contributions to the Biodiversity and Climate Protection: Governance tools in Brazil and Colombia to Manage Territories (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  22 October, 3:30-4:30pm | Small Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• Weaving an Intersectional and Intergenerational Movement for Biodiversity and Climate Action (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  22 October, 6:30-8:30pm | Bita Auditorium, Casa Humboldt, Green Zone 

Wednesday 23 October

• Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration (Featuring Proforest) 
  23 October, 7:30-11:30am | Club Colombia 
• Human Rights and Gender Equality in National Biodiversity Plans (Featuring The Nature Conservancy)  By invitation only. 
  23 October, 08:30am-12pm | Atrato Auditorium (2nd floor), Casa Humboldt, Green Zone 
• Time to mobilize and transform key sectors for biodiversity: A call to action (Featuring The Nature Conservancy and WWF) 
  23 October, 9-10am | Big Room, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• From local to global action: Territorial corridors for the protection of biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples living in isolation (Featuring Rainforest Foundation Norway) 
  23 October, 10:30am-12pm | Opiac Maloca, Parque Rio Cali, Green Zone 
• Applying AI, Traditional Knowledge, and Earth Observation to Conserve and Restore Natural Ecosystems in the Amazon and Beyond (Featuring WRI) 
  23 October, 11:40am-1pm | Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room, Plaza One, Blue Zone 
• Advancing Finance and Ambition in Sustainable Landscapes: the role of private and public sectors (Featuring CDP and Rainforest Alliance) 
  23 October, 3-8pm | Hotel Intercontinental 
• Private Sector: A Key Player in Nature Restoration (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  23 October, 3-4:30pm | Atrato Auditorium (2nd floor), Casa Humboldt, Green Zone 
• The Importance of Agrobiodiversity in Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean (Featuring Rainforest Alliance) 
  23 October, 3:30-5pm | Conservation International, Fondo Acción and IDB Pavilion 
• Direct and specific financial flows for Indigenous Peoples (Featuring Rainforest Foundation Norway) 
  23 October, 6-7:30pm | Plaza One Pacifico, IPLC Room 
• Role of Women in Community Forest for Restoration (Featuring Rights & Resources Initiative) 
  23 October, Time TBD | Women’s Hub Pavilion, Blue Zone 

Thursday 24 October

• Blue Success – How Ocean Action is Delivering for the Global Biodiversity Framework (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  24 October, 9-10am | Small Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• The LandMark Mapping Platform: New Data and Tools for Securing Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Rights and Meeting Global Biodiversity Targets (Featuring WRI) 
  24 October, 9-10am | Big Room, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• Green Financing in Subnational Governments: How to expand opportunities for nature-based urban solutions? (Featuring CDP) 
  24 October, 11am-12:45pm | Blue Zone, Local & Subnational Hub - Place Québec 
• Leveraging traditional modern technology and traditional knowledge and reduce tropical deforestation, ‘ghost road’ expansion, and habitat fragmentation (Featuring WRI) 
  24 October, 2-5pm | Ríostudio Cali (Avenida 4 Oeste, #4-84), Green Zone 
• ENCORE Day (Hosted by Global Canopy)
  24 October 2024, 3-6:15pm | Finance and Biodiversity Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Aligning Corporate Action, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning with the GBF and NBSAPs (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  26 October, 3:30-4:30pm | Big Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Reforming Agricultural Policies and Public Support for People, Planet and Prosperity (Featuring WWF) 
  24 October, 6pm | Chiribiquete - Asia and the Pacific meeting room, Plaza One 
• The LandMark Platform: Mapping Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Land Rights and Their Importance in Sustaining Biodiversity (Featuring WRI)   
  24 October, 7:30-8:30pm | Big Room - Centro de Eventos Valle del Pacífico, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• Bloom 24: Accelerating Business Action at COP 16 (Ceres’ Meryl Richards attending) 
  24-25 October | InterContinental Cali, Cali, Colombia 

Friday 25 October

• Women in Conservation: Protecting the World's Savannas (Featuring The Nature Conservancy)
  25 October, 8-10am | Atrato Auditorium (2nd floor), Casa Humboldt, Green Zone 
• A human rights-based approach to conserving forests (Featuring WWF) 
  25 October, 9:30-10:30am | KM-GBF Pavilion 
• Responsible Mining and Sustainable Use of Critical Energy Transition Minerals in the Three Tropical Forest Basins (Featuring Rainforest Foundation Norway and WRI) 
  25 October, 10:30-11:30am | Nature Positive Initiative Pavilion, Centro de Eventos Valle del Pacifico, Blue Zone 
• The Afro-descendant Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean as Rightsholders in the Convention on Biological Diversity and COP16 (Featuring Rights & Resources Initiative) 
  25 October, 11:40am-1:10pm | Caño Cristales, CEE meeting room, Plaza One 
• Catalysing nature’s US$7 trillion turnaround – introducing The Little Book of Nature Business (Hosted by Global Canopy) 
  25 October 2024, 12-1pm | Salon Colombia, Dann Carlton Hotel 
• A step change in deforestation monitoring: the new era of tools and techniques for financial institutions and corporations (Co-hosted Global Canopy)  
  25 Oct 2024, 2-2:45pm | Business & Nature Hub, Blue Zone 
• Paz de Ariporo: Sustainable Cattle Ranching for Savanna Conservation in the Orinoquia (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  25 October, 2-3:30pm | Atrato Auditorium (2nd floor), Casa Humboldt, Green Zone 
• Forest Guardians: The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to safeguard biodiversity and climate (Featuring Rainforest Foundation Norway) 
  25 October, 4-6pm | Opiac Maloca, Parque Rio Cali, Green Zone 
• The role of finance in the Global Biodiversity Framework: Deforestation due diligence in practice (Co-hosted by Global Canopy) 
  25 Oct 2024, 5-5:45pm | Place Quebec: Business & Finance Hub, Blue Zone 

Saturday 26 October

• Women-led Conservation: Protecting the World’s Savannas (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  26 October, 10:30-11:30am | Small Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• Getting Started with TNFD: South American Banks Share Their Experience (Hosted by Global Canopy) 
  26 October 2024, 11am-12pm | Salon Colombia, Dann Carlton Hotel 
• Implementing Target 15: taking stock and building on data, disclosure and real economy progress (CDP, TNFD) 
  26 October, 12-1pm | Blue Zone, Nature Positive Pavilion
• Visualising the Global Biodiversity Framework: A Creative Mobilisation for Action (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  26 October, 12:30-2:30pm | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca
• Fighting deforestation: an overview of financial players’ strategies (Featuring Global Canopy) 
  26 October 2024, 2-3:30pm | CGIAR Food & Agriculture Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Mission 2025: Telling a Better Story for Nature and Food (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  26 October, 3-5pm | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca
• For Our Planet: Radical Collaboration for Nature Restoration (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  26 October, 7:30-10pm | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca

Sunday 27 October

• Addressing the giants: integrating nature in regulations for systemically important banks (Hosted by CDP; Featuring WWF) 
  27 October, 08:30-09:30am, Blue Zone, EU Pavilion (in person and online) 
• Transforming Food Systems Roundtable (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  27 October, 8:30-10:30am | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca
• Harnessing nature-based solutions through the transition to sustainable farming (Featuring Proforest) 
  27 October, 9-10am | Nature Positive Pavilion 
• Nature stewardship for asset owners and asset managers (Ceres, IIGCC, PRI, TNFD) 
  27 October, 10:30am-12pm | Dann Carlton Hotel
• AI and the Amazon: Innovation for Conservation (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  27 October, 11am-12:30pm | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca
• Shaping the Future of Bioeconomy as an Economic Sector (Featuring WRI) 
  27 October, 12-1pm | Amazonía Siempre Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Investigating in Regenerative Landscapes (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  27 October, 1-3pm | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca  
• The Great Ocean-Climate Talk Show (Featuring WRI and WWF) 
  27 October, 1:30-2:30pm | KMGBF Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Integrating Nature into Business Strategy (Co-hosted by Conservation International)
  27 October, 3:30-5:30pm | Nature House at Sakura House, Via Palmaseca Rozo KM6 Entrada Estación Paraiso de Rozo, Valle del Cauca
• Synergies and Partnerships for Impact - Uniting for the Ocean: Accelerating Action for Biodiversity Goals (Featuring WRI) 
  27 October, 4-5pm | KMGBF Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Lasting Change at Scale for Biodiversity: Amplifying Corporate Action in Landscapes (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  27 October, 4-6pm | Small Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• The "nature" of reporting: Corporate disclosure and transition planning (GRI, ISSB, TNFD) 
  27 October, 5:30-7:30pm | Dann Carlton Hotel Cali, Salon Colombia
• Implementing TNFD disclosure through CDP - TNFD adoption and the path ahead (CDP, WWF) 
  27 October, 4-5pm | Dann Carlton Hotel
• Market-based bioeconomy approaches in the Amazon – a paradigm shift (Co-hosted by Imaflora and Rainforest Alliance) 
• 27 October 2024, 4:30-5:30pm | Amazonia Forever Pavilion, Blue Zone 

Monday 28 October

• Unlocking Finance for a Locally-Led Pan-Amazon Bioeconomy (Featuring WRI) 
  28 October, 08:30-10am | DIAN - Main Auditorium, Green Zone 
• Unlocking financing to increase biodiversity conservation and sustainable use through a landscape approach (CDP, Rainforest Alliance)  
  28 October, 9-10:15am | Green Zone, Location: Universidad ECCI, Lobby Teatro 
• Unlocking financing to increase biodiversity conservation and sustainable use through a landscape approach (Hosted by CDP and Rainforest Alliance; Featuring Global Canopy) 
  28 October 2024, 9:30-10:15am | Universidad ECCI, Lobby Teatro, Green Zone
• Linking Sustainable Ocean Plans with the Global Biodiversity Framework (Featuring WRI) 
  28 October, 09:40-10:40am | Blue Zone 
• Financing the big food system turnaround (Hosted by Global Canopy) 
  28 October 2024, 10:30-11:30am | Salon Colombia, Dann Carlton Hotel 
• Prioritizing Nature in a Global Land Squeeze: Monitoring using advanced geospatial data, Google Earth Engine and AI (Featuring WRI) 
  28 October, 10:30-11:30am | Big Room 
• The DRC at the Forefront of Implementation of Target 3 of the Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework Montreal for Biodiversity: National Strategy for Nature Conservation Outside Protected Areas, Progress, and Prospects (Featuring Rights & Resources Initiative and Rainforest Foundation Norway) 
  28 October, 1:20-2:20pm | Sinu – Africa meeting room, Plaza One 
• Invest in Nature: Progress and Future of Biodiversity Finance (Featuring WRI) 
  28 October, 3:30-4:30pm | Nature Positive Initiative Pavilion 
• Principles for Inclusive, Gender-Responsive, Locally-led Biodiversity Action (Featuring Forest Peoples Programme and Rights & Resources Initiative)  
  28 October, 4-5pm | Gef Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Scaling up nature positive investment in Asia and the Pacific (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  28 October, 4:30-5:50pm | Farallones - Youth Meeting Room, Blue Zone 
• From Commitment to Action: A Vision for Meeting 2030 Global Forests Goals (Featuring WWF) 
  28 October, 5:30-6:45pm | Green Zone 
• The road to Nature-Positive: Collaboration and partnerships needed to accelerate implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework (Featuring CDP) 
  28 October, 6:30-8pm | Blue Zone, Nature Positive Pavilion 

Tuesday 29 October

• Implementing the Biodiversity Plan: Corporate Action on Nature Loss (Ceres) 
  29 October, 10-11am | Finance and Biodiversity Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Biodiversity Finance Trends 2024 (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  29 October, 1:20-2:40pm | Marie Khan Women's Caucus meeting room, Blue Zone 
• Turning Harm into Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural subsidies that destroy forests (Featuring WWF) 
  29 October, 2-2:45pm | Business and Nature Hub 
• The role of nature in transition plans (CDP, invite only) 
  29 October, 3:30-4:30pm | Nature Positive Pavilion (Blue Zone)  
• Innovative Finance for Climate and Biodiversity Goals: developing long-term solutions to bridge the financial gap (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  29 October, 4:30-5:50pm | Academia & research, Blue Zone 

Wednesday 30 October

• Pan-Amazon Network for Bioeconomy Launch: A Call to Regional Collaboration (Featuring WRI) 
  30 October, 09:30-11am | CI Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Prosper with Nature: Safeguarding biodiversity and human rights in energy transition mineral supply chains (Featuring Mighty Earth and Rainforest Foundation Norway)     
  30 October, 10-11:30am | IUCN Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Progress towards 30x30: Innovation and Lessons at the Country and Regional Levels (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  30 October, 5-6pm | Big Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 

Thursday 31 October

• Cultivating Change: Scaling Nature-Positive Agriculture and Ranching for Biodiversity and Climate (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  31 October, 9-10am | Big Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Ministerial Dialogue of the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Platform to Support Forest Climate Action (Featuring Rights & Resources Initiative) 
  31 October, 10:10-11:30am | Plaza One, Subnational and Local Authorities Room, Blue Zone   
• High-level dialogue: Mainstreaming biodiversity within and across sectors to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  31 October, 10:10-11:30 | Blue Zone 
• Gabon: Implementation of the GBF through Conservation Finance (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  31 October, 10:30-11:30am | Small Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Zero deforestation to avoid the tipping point in the Amazon (Featuring WWF) 
  31 October, 1:20pm | Cocora - Subnational and Local Authorities meeting room, Plaza One 
• The GBF and Inland Waters: from Targets to Implementation (Featuring The Nature Conservancy) 
  31 October, 2-3pm | Big Stage, Nature Positive Pavilion, Blue Zone 
• Forest Declaration Assessment launch (Conservation International, Global Canopy, NWF, TNC, RRI, WRI, WWF) 
  31 October, 3:30-4:30pm | Big Room, Nature Positive Pavilion 
• Zero deforestation to avoid the Tipping Point in the Amazon (Featuring WWF) 
  31 October, 4:30-5:15pm | Amazonia Forever Pavilion, Blue Zone 

Friday 1 November

• Towards a New Economy in the Panamazon: Strategic multi-sectoral shifts (Featuring WRI) 
  1 November, 09:30-10:30am | CAF Pavilion, Blue Zone