Nature and Culture Summit 2024

DATE: 26 -27 October 2024

VENUE: Sierra Nevada room, Cali, Colombia.

The Nature and Culture Summit 2024 was one of the major parallel events held during the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16).

Celebrating its fifth edition and taking place almost a year after the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Framework) at COP 15 in December 2022, the Summit provided a unique opportunity to develop key messages on the intrinsic relationship of biocultural diversity in the context of the implementation of the Framework.

Through panel presentations, discussions, traditional cultural expressions and a field visit organized and coordinated with the Government of Colombia, the Nature and Culture Summit addressed culture shapes heritage, identity, creativity, and linguistic diversity and its linkages with biodiversity.

The summit highlighted that Indigenous Peoples and local communities are champions of biodiversity protection through their cultural practices. Their extensive knowledge systems, values, and worldviews are central to their cultural identity. Their traditional ways of life are closely intertwined with their lands, flora and fauna, and their values and practices emerge from these intimate connections.

Declaration of the Nature and Culture Summit

Access the Declaration of the World Coalition for Peace with Nature: A call for life.

Agenda, speakers and concept note

Access the full agenda, speakers’ bios, concepto note and more here.

Live streaming of the event

Watch the recording of the first meeting  of the Nature and Culture Summit here.

Watch the recording of the second meeting  of the Nature and Culture Summit here.

Photo Gallery – Oepning Session, 26 October, Sierra Nevada room

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