Susan Ann Samuel, “Exploring the scope of ecofeminism in the biodiversity-climate nexus”, (21 Feb 2023) Open Global Rights, online: <www.openglobalrights.org> [perma.cc/scope-ecofeminism-biodiversity-climate-nexus/].
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The COP15 of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, held in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022, happened less than a month after the COP27 of the UN Climate Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Although some argue that the Biodiversity Conference received less attention than the latter, it was nonetheless historic, as the 188 governments that are parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed on a new framework to halt species extinction and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, entitled the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law organized a hybrid event in Montreal during the COP15—Biodiversity Law and Governance Day 2022—during which I spoke on the complementarity of human rights and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit- Sharing (ABS) in a panel discussion where the need for ecofeminism was raised. The increasing need to acknowledge the role of women, and to comprehend the scope of ecofeminism as “political activism as well as intellectual criticism” in reimagining efficient measures to curtail environmental emergencies, is now more crucial than ever.
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