Official logo and slogan of COP17 taking place in Yerevan Armenia October 19-30, 2026. Read more on the official website for COP17.
Ambitions were high ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference, held in Yerevan Armenia from 19 to 30 October, which set out totake stock of progress on the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) and chart a new path forward. But what was actually achieved? We invite all interested to join our online post-match analysis where we will assess what did and did not happen at COP17.
As in previous years, Focali, SEI, LiU - CSPR and BECC - LU, invite a broad range of actors to explore the outcomes of the most recent UN Biodiversity Conference. This time, negotiators, researchers, the private sector, civil society and representatives from Indigenous Peoples organizations will share their reflections on the most important outcomes of COP17 as well as needed next steps. Some questions that will be raised to the panelists are: Which critical issues were not resolved at COP17? Where are the most important implementation gaps? What will the Yerevan Pathway mean? How will the COP17 decisions impact biodiversity financing? How were Indigenous People’s perspectives reflected? Which role did science play? And how did geopolitical tensions influence negotiations?
We invite you to bring your own questions about what really happened in the negotiation rooms and side-discussions in Yerevan.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about COP and what´s next to accelerate biodiversity action as the world approaches the halfway point toward the Global Biodiversity Framework’s 2030 targets. Stay tuned on this event page for updates in the list of confirmed panelists below, the agenda and register to join us for this online post-match analysis November 5th - the week in between biodiversity COP17 and climate COP31.
Confirmed panelists:
Fredrik Granath, Ministry of Climate and Enterprise, Governmental Offices of Sweden, part of the Swedish delegation to COP17
Clarisse Kehler Siebert, Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise & Environmental Protection Agency, part of the Swedish delegation to COP17
Titta Lassila, Senior Policy Specialist for Climate and Environment, Sida, part of the Swedish delegation to COP17
Eeva Primmer, Executive Director Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI, Bureau Member IPBES and adjunct professor in environmental policy at the University of Helsinki
Claudia Ituarte-Lima, International public lawyer, Senior Researcher and Thematic leader on human rights and environment at Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Lund University, currently provide legal, policy and analytical support to the CBD COP17 Presidency
Ana Carolina Marciano, Programme officer Swedbio, Stockholm Resilience Centre. Swedbio has been coordinating the Human Rights and Biodiversity Working group since 2020 that support the implementation of a Human Rights Based Approach in the KM-GBF
Lovisa Hagberg, Director Environmental Governance, WWF Sweden and seconded part-time to the WWF European Policy Office as Senior Global Policy Lead
Additional panelist tba
Setting the (geopolitical) scene: Björn-Ola Linnér Professor in Environmental Change and at CSPR Linköping University, Programme Director for Mistra Geopolitics and associate research fellow at SEI and SIPRI
Moderator:
Maria Ölund Network Manager Focali and the Focali - SIANI collaboration (in which this series of dialogues has been facilitated since COP15), University of Gothenburg
Co-moderators:
Juliana Porsani Assistant Professor, Linköping University
Maria Jernnäs Assistant Professor, Linköping University
Registration:
Registration: COP17 Post-match analysis | via BECC
Contact:
Maria Ölund Network Manager Focali maria.olund@gu.se for any suggestions or questions ahead of the webinar.
Article and recording from our last joint COP16 post-match analysis webinar:
Post match analysis COP16 – learn what happened and why it matters - SIANI
Additional past related sessions arranged / co-arranged by Focali:
Presentations and video interview about COP16 in Cali and Rome from the in-person Focali annual meeting 2025:
Update from the Swedish CBD delegation to CBD COP16 in Cali and Rome by Malte Timpte, Swe EPA
Pernilla Malmer Swedbio, SRC | CBD - IPBES bridging & inclusion of human rights and IPLC knowledges
Additional videos from COP16 side-events and sessions are available via the Focali you tube
Recording of in-person panel held one year after COP15 at the 2023 Focali annual meeting Biodiversity, climate & development – Sweden's role - Panel discussion | Focali Annual Meeting 2023
A post-match analysis webinar held after the adoption of the KM-GBF at COP15 in Montreal: COP15 Post-match analysis – How can the new Global Biodiversity Framework be a transformative moment for nature and people? - SIANI and article based on this webinar COP15 — A Transformative Moment for Biodiversity Conservation? - SIANI
Post-match webinar held after climate COP30 in Brazil 2025: Webinar: Beyond Belém – Hope and Action for Forests, Climate and Livelihoods