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What role can governments play in enabling business and finance to contribute to biodiversity outcomes?
As part of #COP17Armenia's Finance Day yesterday, we were pleased to to host an impact cut screening from Open Planet’s film, How to Live on Earth.
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Biodiversity strengthens climate resilience.
In El Salvador’s dry corridor, restoring land, harvesting rainwater and diversifying crops are helping rural families adapt to drought, erosion and floods #ForPeopleForPlanet: pnudsv.exposure.co/ahuachapa…
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An unexpected guest at #COP17Armenia 🐆
Created for @UNDP by artist Yevgine Onanyan, this Caucasian leopard sculpture reminds delegates what’s at stake: protecting wildlife and the habitats we share.
Discover more: go.undp.org/xdJ
Our health depends on biodiversity.
Nature’s ‘living laboratory’ harbours undiscovered health breakthroughs - if only we don’t destroy them before they’re recognized.
As #COP17Armenia continues, take a look:
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Small businesses can drive big change #ForPeopleForPlanet🌿
Join us today at #COP17Armenia with @conservationx @iki_germany to explore how smarter policies, innovative finance, technology and accessible data can empower SMEs to restore ecosystems and build climate resilience.
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🤝 “Collaboration is key!”
At #COP17Armenia, Darco Kjitanoski of @Eko_svest, SGP partner in North Macedonia, calls on civil society to move from competition to collaboration - joining forces to mobilize resources & make bigger impact #ForPeopleForPlanet.
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US$2.4 trillion in public subsidies supported environmentally harmful activities in 2023.
Changing these incentives and strengthening those that reward conservation can help deliver #ForPeopleForPlanet.
Join us at #COP17Armenia to learn more: biofin.org/cop17-subsidies-t…
How can better policies and blended finance help turn NBSAPs into action? 🌿
Join us at #COP17Armenia with Panama, Jordan, The Gambia, Ecuador, the Development Bank of South Africa, and more.
📅 23 October
📍 GEF Pavilion
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Biodiversity supports every part of human life, from food production & medicines to jobs, recreation & a livable climate.
People cannot thrive on a planet that is in crisis.
This is why we need to act now, for our present & our future: go.undp.org/qs5
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Colombia’s páramos supply 70% of Bogotá’s water, but climate change threatens them.
Under the #SCALA programme, @UNDP & @FAO are supporting local farmers to restore these ecosystems and manage water #ForPeopleForPlanet: go.undp.org/xN3 #COP17Armenia
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The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone.
But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100.
Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century.
New #EmissionsGap Report: unep.org/en/news-and-stories…
“It will not be an exaggeration to say we link our identity to mangrove forests”
When the mangroves in Khardi village began to disappear, saltwater moved in
Communities joined a major restoration drive, boosting livelihoods & biodiversity go.undp.org/xNo #COP17Armenia
Countries have set adaptation priorities.
The challenge now is linking them to budgets, investment and finance.
Better coordination can help deliver results.
Read how in our new explainer: go.undp.org/xft
As countries receive payments for protecting forests, how can benefits be shared fairly?
@unredd's new Learning Journal offers practical guidance and lessons from Costa Rica, Ghana and Brazil to help countries make benefit sharing work.
📘Expore here: go.undp.org/xP2
Are you at #COP17Armenia?
Join us 22 October at the UN Pavilion to celebrate how #UNBiodiversityLab uses the power of spatial data to advance work #ForPeopleForPlanet.
See how we're working with partners to turn biodiversity commitments into action: tinyurl.com/UNBL-data-to-act…
Young people are rights holders, co-creators, and implementation partners - actively addressing interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation, and climate change.
Join us tomorrow at #COP17Armenia with @GYBN_CBD @youngo_unfccc @UNCCDYouth @youthnegotiator.
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🌱Small grants, big impact at #COP17Armenia.
For many, @theGEF 's Small Grants Program, implemented by @UNDP is first step toward lasting change.
“It is a game changer!” Mailes Zulu @sepazambia.
Join us for power of local action #ForPeopleForPlanet: sgp.undp.org/resources-155/e…
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More than 1 million species face extinction, affecting healthy ecosystems.
In 2025, UNDP supported nature projects in 145 countries, helping governments protect biodiversity and make it part of their prosperity and growth. go.undp.org/GWz
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Young people around the world are actively addressing the interconnected challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation, and climate change.
Join us at #COP17Armenia with @GYBN_CBD @youngo_unfccc @UNCCDYouth @youthnegotiator and more.
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Healthy watersheds secure water #ForPeopleForPlanet
How does this work in practice? Follow Bhutan’s rangers protecting Shinghtalum, a 10,000-acre watershed supplying local communities, schools and monasteries.
🎥 Watch in full: youtube.com/watch?v=ASXwd45I… #COP17Armenia @theGEF