CAIA hosts inaugural webinar on biodiversity

CAIA hosted a second biodiversity webinar on 4 September 2025, building on the introductory webinar held on 6 May 2025. The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) presented their work to create tools and information resources used to guide policy and showed how biodiversity management was a factor for economic development.
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INC-5.2 Daily Update – 14 August 2025
Over the course of Thursday, August 14 (the scheduled final day of negotiations) closed bilateral and regional consultations continued throughout the day. The Chair had to convene a last second […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 13 August 2025
With the deadline fast approaching, negotiations started today with all four Contact Groups receiving updates on status of discussions from co-facilitators of informal and leads of informal informal groups. Co-Chairs […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 12 August 2025
Following a night of tense negotiations prior, INC-5.2 resumed with most of its meetings taking place in informal, or “informal informal” settings. Contact Groups 1, 3, and 4, met to […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 11 August 2025
The negotiations resumed this morning after a day off yesterday, where delegations were encouraged to self-organize into informal informals on key topics of divergence. Yesterday, informal informals were held on […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 9 August 2025
Today kicked off with a Stocktaking Plenary, where the co-chairs of all four Contact Groups reported a “snapshot” of the status of work. The co-chairs shared that the Contact Groups […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 8 August 2025
Progress remained slow across Contact Groups today, as formal and informal meetings worked toward a mid-way check in Plenary on Saturday. Governments showed signs of progress on few issues, but […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 7 August 2025
Governments resumed meetings of contact groups 1 – 4, which continued to remain open to observers. However, there were more informal sessions (closed to observers) than in previous days on […]
INC-5.2 Daily Update – 6 August 2025
Today, governments resumed meetings of contact groups 1 – 4, which remained open to observers. Certain articles were moved to closed informal sessions, and we expect this will continue tomorrow […]