#show progress

[biodiversityday]

Save the date: COP16 Colombia "PAZ CON LA NATURALEZA." from Oct. 21 to Nov. 1st, 2024.

Now is the time to accelerate action and show progress towards turning the Biodiversity Plan into nationally driven action.

In February, Gustavo Petro, the President of the Republic of Colombia announced that Cali will be the host city for the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) to be held from Oct. 21 to Nov. 1, 2024.

“We bow to the most biodiverse region of Colombia,” the President said. The announcement marked the end of a suspenseful few weeks during which the cities of Bogotá and Cali took to the radio waves, television, newspapers, and social media to speak about COP16 and make the case for hosting the world’s foremost multilateral meeting dedicated to biodiversity.

Speaking at the announcement event, Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, who led her country's bid to host COP16, described it as a meeting for the people, to help humanity live with and aim to achieve peace with nature. “Now begins the journey to COP16,” she said.

As Cali beckons, now is the time to accelerate action and show progress towards turning the four goals and 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Diversity Framework - known as the Biodiversity Plan - into nationally driven action. Parties to the CBD are expected to press ahead with the alignment of their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) with the Biodiversity Plan. To be effective, NBSAPs will have to embody a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, as the Biodiversity Plan itself does. Monitoring, reporting, and reviewing of implementation will be key to driving evidence-based progress. 

In addition, COP16 will pore over the provision of means of implementation. Financial resources, capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation, and access to and transfer of technology are essential to the full implementation of the Biodiversity Plan. Goal D of the Plan includes language on securing the means of implementation and making them accessible to all Parties, especially developing countries, Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, and countries with economies in transition.

Parties are expected to move towards closing the biodiversity finance gap of $700 billion per year, and work towards aligning financial flows with the Biodiversity Plan. The GEF-8 resources for biodiversity - the largest yet from the multilateral family of funds - will provide vital support to countries as they initiate the implementation of the Biodiversity Plan. The required finance will also flow through the new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund and through innovative financing mechanisms such as debt-for-nature swaps and biodiversity bonds.

Access and benefit-sharing, addressed in Article 15 of the CBD and the Nagoya Protocol, will feature prominently on the agenda. COP16 will notably consider the operationalization of the multilateral mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from Digital Sequence Information on genetic resources, including a global fund.

Peace with nature

Inspired by the Inírida flower, a species endemic to Colombia, the COP16 logo was unveiled during the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), along with the host country’s slogan for COP16: “Peace with Nature.” 

Speaking at the logo unveiling event alongside David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the CBD, Colombia’s Environment and Sustainable Development Minister Muhamad said: “This is a flower that never dies. Its petals never fall apart. We hope that the COP16 in Colombia can help the world to make peace with nature, so that we can sustain and maintain life on the planet forever."

The petals represent the 23 targets of the Biodiversity Plan and the 13 ecoregions of Colombia, one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. The color palette symbolizes three pathways for action - reduce threats, meet people’s needs, and develop tools and solutions, and the need for synergies. 

“The eloquent logo featuring the Inírida flower speaks volumes of the beauty and diversity of Colombia. Under the theme of Peace with Nature, COP16 will bring the world together to promote and support the implementation of the Biodiversity Plan," Cooper said at the logo unveiling event.

The symbolism of the iconography echoes the UN Secretary-General’s call to make peace with nature, as he referred to how our consumption and production systems are destroying the environment.

The Inírida flower grows nowhere else but Colombia, but the message encapsulated in the emblem will reverberate beyond the host country’s national borders, highlighting the importance of environmental multilateralism. In an increasingly fractured world, global environmental accords show that it is still possible for the world to work together to help forge a sustainable future through multilateralism.

Learn more:

Three messages for biodiversity in the COP 16 logo

International Day for Biological Diversity 2024: “Be part of the Plan”

Astrid Schomaker is the next UN Biodiversity chief

[alnilaem]

*heavy sigh* ……. Price

[vacueye]

looking through old tf2 stuff again + felt like reuploading some of my favorite (mostly spy) art throughout the years

[mangokabuto]

And if I said we should be having more fun with their hair. What then.

They should have dress up parties on wash day and style each other for hours i think. Quality time w peepaw qvq

(btw if you can figure out all of the references i put in usopp's beads u get a prize 😊 Good thing i made that literally actually unfair and impossible 😌🫶

Hint: there are 59 refs, and they are only there to entertain Me Specifically)

[tending-the-hearth]

me: making a silly little video about annabeth's progression from making percy a blue birthday cupcake vs. her recognizing is as something sacred between percy and sally and not making blue food

tiktok commenters: um actually that's definitely a plot inconsistency and it shows how little rick pays attention because why would that even be a thing

SHUT UP I'M EXPLODING YOU WITH MY MIND IT'S ABOUT ANNABETH FIRST THINKING IT'S A NONSENSICAL LITTLE THING AND AFTER THEY GET TOGETHER OFFICIALLY PERCY OPENING UP ABOUT THE ABUSE HE AND HIS MOTHER FACED AND HOW THIS ONE SEEMINGLY SILLY THING BECAME THEIR WAY OF REBELLION AND COMMUNICATION DURING DIFFICULT TIMES AND ANNABETH RECOGNIZING THAT AND LOVING PERCY SO MUCH THAT SHE NEVER TOUCHES THE IDEA OF MAKING BLUE FOOD AGAIN BECAUSE SHE KNOWS AS MUCH AS SHE LOVES HIM THAT'S SOMETHING SO SPECIFIC AND IMPORTANT TO PERCY AND SALLY THAT IT WOULDN'T BE RIGHT FOR HER TO BE PART OF THAT

[raspberry-rampage]

omgg thanks for over 6k on this post!!!!

here's more Velvette content, inspired by @moonshineandstars05 's idea

[forgrtashes-blog]

A lil W.I.P but I think it looks pretty cool rn!

[faiell]

the vanishing cabinet

[skatankata]

2 years of art practise and drawfee vids

Really struggled with painting Julia 2 years ago (and that barely looks like her), this year it was really fun though, I can feel the growth and it brings such joy

[parisoonic]

'So, there's been something I've been meaning to tell you...' Some progress pics under the cut for fun.

Blockout / Shapework and a Little Rendering / Lighting Solidfication to Bring it Closer to Original Sketch / Details and Grade

[sangled]

costume au charms... coming soon

[quip-and-titter]

That's a cute mug you've got there... Would be a real shame if someone were planning to... Magical girl gijinka it.

[lizaisdrawing]

Mr. Wally

[communistkenobi]

this episode literally ends with kirk reading the US declaration of independence to the aliens lmfao

[isa-belle1367]

Headcanon that castiel is awkward because he doesn't fully understand English. Like, yeah, he can navigate a dictionary, but when it comes to jokes and phrases, he doesn't understand them. Then Sam and Dean find a book in the bunker that is like a learning guide for enochian, and it is surprisingly easy to learn. So now that they understand the basics of enochian, they start being able to deliver all the comments Cas would make under his breath, and they have to come to the horrible realization that Castiel is a fucking asshole. He just doesn't know how to be an asshole in English.

[astronomodome]

probably fine