On 26 October our Association’s expert Professor Borys Babin took online participation in Conference of Participating States (COP16) of the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Cali, Colombia.
During that Conference the Biodiversity Law and Governance Day 2024 convened experts, practitioners, scholars and stakeholders from law, governance and other fields, in order to scale up efforts to address the main drivers of biodiversity loss, implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the global Sustainable Development Goals through legal and institutional measures.
Conference was held with participation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, the UN Development Programme and UN Environment Programme, International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Commission for Environmental Law, International Development Law Organization and other UN bodies and agencies, intergovernmental organizations, academia, private sector actors and civil society.
Common goal of Conference was to strengthen the effectiveness of Convention and its protocols, and to enhance synergies between biodiversity treaties and other international regimes.
In such framework Dr. Babin initiated the discussions with panelists, such as Proffessors Ivonne Díaz Pérez, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Jorge Cabrera, Michelle Lim, Damilola Sunday Olawuyi and others on issue of countering ecocide concept in modern international law as a tool of biodivercity protecting.
Expert Babin, with ground of ARC’s researches on Russia’s illegal activities in the occupied Crimea and Ukrainian mainland areas, reminded to participants that such issue became especially actual in framefork on ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine and relevant international crimes committed by Russian invaders against environment.
