Noon Briefing by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

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Video message by António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, on International Day for Biological Diversity.

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The world has a number of tools at its disposal to achieve action on Water. In 2016, the Strategic Plan was agreed by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in 2022, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. These frameworks will contribute to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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The current triple-planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution significantly impact the function and value of freshwater and coastal and marine ecosystems. While there are many ongoing efforts to resolve the crises, progress remains slow and limited in scale.

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Transboundary waters account for 60 per cent of the world's freshwater flows. More than 3 billion people depend on them. Cooperation on shared resources is therefore essential to promote sustainable economic development, human and environmental health, biodiversity, climate action and resilience, disaster risk reduction, and peace. Unfortunately, cooperation in most transboundary basins is not fit to deal with future challenges and progress is too slow.

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Interactive dialogue 3: Water for Climate, Resilience and Environment: Source to Sea, Biodiversity, Climate, Resilience and DRR (SDGs 6.5, 6.6, 7, 11.5, 13, 14, 15) - United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023)

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Support the exchange and dissemination of knowledge and experiences on integrated regional cooperation, sustainable urban and rural development, climate resilience and biodiversity.

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The Freshwater Challenge is a country-led initiative that aims to leverage the support needed to bring 300,000 km of rivers and 350 million hectares of wetlands under restoration by 2030.

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Hybrid press briefing by David Cooper, the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Dr. Musonda Mumba, the Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. They will brief reporters on the coordinated manner in which the two Conventions will work to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and the Ramsar Strategic Plan. 

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United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028 (22-24 March 2023).

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