COP 17 Hub Session | Mainstreaming Biodiversity Into the Procurement of Transport Infrastructure

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Despite growing awareness of the biodiversity impacts of transport infrastructure, a critical bottleneck persists: infrastructure procurement strategies and processes remain ill equipped to avoid and mitigate these impacts and to restore ecosystems. As a result, governments miss the opportunity to deliver resilient, ecologically sound transport infrastructure at scale. This hub session at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties COP to the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD is a short, procurement focused workshop. It is hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and WWF US, with experts from the Government of Ukraine through the Ministry of Economy and Environment, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Arup, as p…

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