Advancing sustainability solutions to climate challenges faced by hot and arid countries, the Earthna Summit 2025 will explore resilience to water scarcity, harnessing AI for smarter governance, and how the tradition-technology nexus can address food insecurity, among other issues.

Preparing for the entry into force of the BBNJ Agreement, delegates addressed the nuts and bolts that will guide its orderly implementation, including rules of procedure, arrangements for the Secretariat, funding, arrangements with the Global Environment Facility and operationalization of the Clearing-House Mechanism.

Aiming to enhance the functioning of the Treaty’s Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing,  deliberations focused on: the payment structure and rates under the draft revised Standard Material Transfer Agreement; benefit-sharing from digital sequence information/genetic sequence data; and the expansion of the list of crops.