Enhancing international cooperation on measures against invasive alien species 2023

At the G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment held in Japan in April 2023, Ministers highlighted the need to address invasive alien species(IAS) and decided to hold the G7 workshop on IAS for developing a set of recommendations on strengthening international cooperation in this regard. Moreover, in the G7 Hiroshima (External site) Leaders’ Communique, the Leaders shared their willingness to enhance international cooperation on measures against IAS.

Following are the events and meetings held as the G7 initiative on IAS led by Japan, as the presidency.

International webinar on invasive alien species; Acting on the IPBES IAS assessment report toward the achievement of Target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Oct. 5th, 2023)

Side event at CBD-SBSTTA25; Enhancing international cooperation towards minimizing the negative impacts caused by invasive alien species (held in Nairobi, Keniya on Oct. 15th, 2023)

G7 Workshop on IAS (held in Tokyo, Japan on Nov. 20th -22nd, 2023)

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