• 9th April, Biodiversa+’s kick-off meeting: BiodivNBS. PL & PI Claudia Ituarte-Lima participated in Biodiversa+’s kick-off meeting: BiodivNBS, where newly launched projects were presented. Claudia introduced the DEFEND-BIO project and explored synergies with other initiatives. Check out about the meeting and her intervention here.
  PI Liliana Lizarazo Rodríguez and Senior Lecturer Ana María Vargas Falla also took part, presenting DEFEND-BIO as a pioneering project that bridges knowledge, policy, and practice.

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• 15 July,  co-moderator, Advisory Opinion 32 of 2025: Climate Emergency and Human Rights. What’s Next?, co-organised by GNHRE, Biodiversa+DEFEND-BIO project, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute,  ERC Curiae Virides project (Brussels School of Governance (BSoG) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel), The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus , Universidad del Rosario, SEVEN – University of Amsterdam and the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI)

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• August, Speaker on the Training Session on Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the context of the UN Biodiversity, held in Trondheim, Norway organized by CO-OP4CBD, NINA – Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Museum national d’Histoire naturelle

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• 4th September, Virtual conversation on the implications of the Advisory Opinion OC-32/25  by the Interamerican Court of Human Rights, Alianza de Clinicas Ambientales en Latinoamerica y el Caribe an others.

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• 17-18 September, Speaker at the Biodiversa+ Mid-Term Conference in Leiden, in a panel on Nature-based Solutions with Gilles Doignon (European Commission) and Karin Bilo (Orsted), moderated by Marie Touchon (Global Youth Biodiversity Network).

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• 26 September, Keynote speaker  “Frontlines: Environmental Defenders in a Turbulent World”, Brussels School of Governance (BSoG), GNHRE and others (include the others) https://www.brussels-school.be/output/events/frontlines-environmental-defenders-turbulent-world

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• 17 October, speaker at the  “Journey with Environmental Defenders- from Personal to Planetary Scales” Focali – Forests, Climate & Livelihoods, RWI and others, Universum, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  The Defendbio legal clinic hosted by RWI and Sociology of Law Department together organised together with In collaboration with Hållbart Universitet, The Association for Foreign Affairs (UPF), Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) an event on Defending a Living Earth: Transnational action beyond COP30 including a Canadian Parliamentarian and civil society organizations

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• 9th November,  Speaker at  “Breaking Barriers to Climate Solutions” conference, co-hosted by Lund University and the University of Cambridge, https://www.sustainability.lu.se/knowledge-sustainable-development-2025

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• 9th-10th December, Speaker at the panel “Participatory Rights for the Environment” to the Swedish Forum for Human Rights (MR-dagarna) organized by WWF
  Speaker at the Children’s right to a healthy Environment by Save the Children and Save the Children’s Youth League

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• Post-COP30: The Defendbio legal clinic hosted by RWI and Sociology of Law Department together organised together with partners an event on Defending a Living Earth: Transnational action beyond COP30 including a Canadian Parliamentarian and civil society organizations and Focali, RWI and partners are co-orgaizing a session on Beyond Belém – Hope and Action for Forests, Climate and Livelihoods.

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