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Press Conference: Global NGOs Call for TNFD to…

Press Conference: Global NGOs Call for TNFD to be Stricken From COP16 Negotiated Text – United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2024

Categories
Meetings & Events / Conferences / UN Biodiversity Conference / 16th
Production Date
Video Length
00:20:41
Asset Language
English
French
Spanish
Original
Broadcasting UN Entity
DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS - DGC
Subject Topical
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
CONFERENCES
ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN RIGHTS
Summary
Rainforest Action Network, the Forest & Finance coalition, Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining and other CSOs are calling for the UN to stop the promotion of corporate capture initiatives like the controversial Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
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The call follows years of work by civil society organizations and networks raising serious concerns about TNFD as a greenwashing risk and distraction from the real solutions to corporate-led biodiversity and human-rights harms.

Speakers: 

Shona Hawkes, Rainforest Action Network, Forests & Finance coalition 

Tarcisio Feitosa da Silva, Goldman Environmental Prize winner

Izabely Miranda, Executive Secretariat of Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining

Portuguese translation: Merel van der Mark, Forest and Finance Coalition 

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Related Sites and Documents

COP16 Biodiversity Conference Website

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