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Nairobi is hosting critical discussions for nature. 🌍🌿

At #SBSTTA28 and #SBI7, Parties are reviewing progress on the 23 #KMGBF targets and helping shape decisions for #COP17Armenia.

Read more ⬇️

cbd.int/doc/press/2026/pr-2026-07-26-sbstta28-sbi7-en.pdf

#UNBiodiversity #ForNature
July 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM
seobirdlife.bsky.social
La naturaleza no puede esperar más. 🌍🦅

Hacen falta más financiación, mecanismos eficaces de seguimiento y mayor ambición para cumplir los objetivos mundiales de biodiversidad antes de 2030. 

👉 https://seo.org/cumplir-con-los-objetivos-mundiales-de-biodiversidad/
#SBSTTA28 #COP17Armenia
July 28, 2026 at 8:14 AM
genbio.bsky.social
The opening of #SBSTTA28 marks an important round of intergovernmental negotiations that will lay the foundation for #COP17Armenia

#CBD #SBSTTA28 #Biodiversity
July 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM
unbiodiversity.bsky.social
Ocean biodiversity needs science, coordination and cooperation.

At #SBSTTA28, Parties will discuss EBSAs, marine & coastal biodiversity, island biodiversity and issues related to #BBNJ.

These discussions can support the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity.

#KMGBF #ForNature
August 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
ipbes.net
The UN Biodiversity #SBSTTA28 meeting is due to start soon in Nairobi, Kenya, 27 July–1 August 2026

If you are attending, join us for 2 IPBES side events on 27 & 28 July!

Find out more 👇

https://www.cbd.int/side-events/6865

https://www.cbd.int/side-events/6866
July 27, 2026 at 9:00 AM
enb.iisd.org
With little appetite to reopen compromises, #SBSTTA28 delegates endorsed recommendations, preserving the balance reached through intense talks. #biodiversity
@unbiodiversity.bsky.social

➡️https://enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidiary-body-scientific-technical-technological-advice-sbstta28-sbi7-1Aug2026
August 1, 2026 at 9:42 PM
unbiodiversity.bsky.social
⏳ #SBSTTA28 is now underway. Follow the agenda, watch live on @unwebtv.bsky.social, and get real-time updates from
@enb.iisd.org as Parties discuss the #KMGBF. 🌿

🔗 cbd.int/meetings/SBSTTA-28
July 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
enb.iisd.org
#SBSTTA28 Plenary on matters related to the work programme of #IPBES. Delegates welcomed findings of #NexusAssessment, #Biodiversity, and #TransformativeChange and #BizBiodiversity
July 29, 2026 at 9:05 AM
unbiodiversity.bsky.social
Businesses impact biodiversity — and depend on it.

At #SBSTTA28, Parties will consider the 2026 @ipbes.net Business & Biodiversity Assessment, including how businesses can measure and manage their dependencies and impacts on nature.

#KMGBF #ForNature #UNBiodiversity
July 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM
unbiodiversity.bsky.social
Negotiations at #SBSTTA28 and #SBI7 have closed Nairobi. 🌍🌿

Parties advanced work on key biodiversity issues and reviewed the first global assessment of progress paving the way for #COP17Armenia.

Read more ⬇️

www.cbd.int/doc/press/20...

#UNBiodiversity #ForNature
August 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
genbio.bsky.social
The #SBSTTA28 meeting is still in its early plenary phase. Delegates have mainly been dealing with organizational matters, opening statements and setting the direction for the week's negotiations. Regional groups are setting out negotiating priorities. #SBSTTA28 #CBD #Biodiversity
July 30, 2026 at 10:04 AM
unbiodiversity.bsky.social
Protected & conserved areas are central to #Target3 — but quality matters too.

At #SBSTTA28, Parties will consider updates to the programme of work on protected areas and how it can better support #KMGBF implementation.

#30x30plus #ForNature #UNBiodiversity
July 31, 2026 at 7:43 PM
oceansos.bsky.social
Crucial high seas discussions happening this week at #SBSTTA28 with @unbiodiversity.bsky.social! 🌊

Bridging the #BBNJ Agreement & CBD is vital for open ocean governance. Science-based tools like EBSAs are essential for precautionary action.

More information:🔗 www.cbd.int/side-events/...

#OceanSOS
Side Events - Convention on Biological Diversity
www.cbd.int
July 27, 2026 at 1:14 PM
enb.iisd.org
#SBSTTA28 convenes Contact Group co-chaired by Dickson Chitupa (Zimbabwe) and Jan Plesnik (Czechia) to negotiate draft decisions on the work of #IPBES
#NexusAssessment,#IPBES, #Biodiversity, and #TransformativeChange and #BizBiodiversity #KMGBF
#UNBiodiversity
July 30, 2026 at 8:02 AM
astridschomaker.bsky.social
On the sidelines of #SBSTTA28 today, @ipbes.net
hosted an important conversation about its Business and Biodiversity Assessment, which includes +100 actions that businesses can take immediately to bolster their resilience and work with nature, not against it.

📖 www.ipbes.net/bba-report/m...
View of the IPBES side-event at SBSTTA-28
July 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM
enb.iisd.org
With just two days of negotiations remaining for #SBSTTA28, delegates faced an important question:

Will the long hours spent around negotiating tables translate to tangible progress by the close of the meeting?

Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidia...

#biodiversity #GBF @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
July 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
genbio.bsky.social
The 2030 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) were adopted at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15). #SBSTTA28 #SBI7 #CBD #Biodiversity
@unbiodiversity.bsky.social
@genbio.bsky.social
July 30, 2026 at 10:20 AM
enb.iisd.org
In intense discussions at #SBSTTA28, delegates considered the role of developed and developing countries in mobilizing adequate and predictable resources for the effective implementation of the Convention’s objectives with regard to synthetic biology

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July 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
enb.iisd.org
Opening #SBSTTA28 Chair Jean Bruno Mikissa (Gabon) underlined the role of SBSTTA in the review of implementing the #KMGBF, and in providing recommendations on #IPBES, synthetic biology, sustainable wildlife management, protected areas, and marine and coastal biodiversity.
July 27, 2026 at 8:52 AM
enb.iisd.org
With the first negotiated draft decisions for the #CBD COP now adopted in plenary, attention remains on whether decisions on the review of collective progress on Global Biodiversity Framework implementation will cross the finish line. #SBSTTA28 #GBF #biodiversity

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Highlights and images for 31 July 2026
enb.iisd.org
July 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
genbio.bsky.social
Parties @unbiodiversity.bsky.social are meeting in Nairobi to assess global progress on implementation of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). #SBSTTA28 marks half time to global target. Talks centre on monitoring challenges and gaps. #CBD

Read more➡️ t.co/AnEgyzLkxJ
July 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
unbiodiversity.bsky.social
🌿 #SBSTTA28 closed in Nairobi, with important progress made on scientific and technical issues that underpin implementation of the #KMGBF and the Convention and its Protocols.

The meeting helps pave the way to #COP17Armenia.

📄 Read more: cbd.int/article/2026-08-03-sbstta-28

#BiodiversityAction
August 4, 2026 at 3:27 AM
enb.iisd.org
#UNBiodiversity Executive Secretary Astrid Schomaker reminded #SBSTTA28 delegates that the global review of collective progress in the implementation of the #KMGBF is not just a process of ticking boxes, but is a critical mechanism to identify critical gaps.
July 27, 2026 at 9:10 AM
genbio.bsky.social
The meeting #SBSTTA28 will also provide advice and recommendations that will inform negotiations at CBD COP 17 to be held in October 2026 in Yerevan, Armenia.
#CBD #Biodiversity
July 30, 2026 at 10:20 AM
enb.iisd.org
#SBSTTA28 Contact Group on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity co-chaired by Patsy Nicole Contardo Urra (Chile) and Holly Kelley-Weil (UK) met in the afternoon. They focussed on voluntary guidelines for peer-review processes related to the description of EBSAs. #KMGBF #UNBiodiversity
July 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM