October 22, 2024: On the opening days of the 16^th UN Biodiversity Conference in Colombia the Global Foundation for Social Harmony and Sustainable Development (GFoundation) has welcomed the Alberta government’s recently launched consultation on biodiversity.

Click Here for the invite from Alberta’s ministry of Environment and Protected Areas about the province’s nature strategy. 

 “Amid few voices last year calling for such a consultation”, says GFoundation Executive Director Lucien Royer, “we launched our biodiversity website petition”. 

“Alberta has yet to set objectives, timelines, or targets for biodiversity that link with proposals by our national government and global processes.”

GFoundation is pleased that several groups are calling on their memberships, supporters, contacts and the public to respond to the Government’s request for feedback by November 07, 2024.  See: Nature strategy engagement | Alberta.ca. 

YOU –  Individual, or part of a group– are invited to consult the survey guide produced by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS Alberta) and to view the presentation at its recent AGM: here.

 In 2022 the GFoundation called for a stronger commitment by all levels of government to the implementation of targets by the UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference. 

 At the time, GF called on Alberta’s Minister of Environment, as well as Alberta municipalities to strengthen their connections to Canada’s National Biodiversity Strategies & Action Plans (NBSAPs) – a process of the UN’s Biodiversity Convention.

The Convention on Biological Diversity’s 16th Conference of the Parties has just begun in Cali, Columbia from October 21 to November 1, 2024. Canada & Alberta must play their roles.