CEPA Fair Side event description
Wednesday 27 October
ICIMOD is a regional knowledge learning, development and enabling centre working in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region. With the Centre’s major focus on mountain issues including biodiversity, ICIMOD joins the world in celebrating the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) 2010 by various activities and events at global, regional and national level. At CEPA Fair, ICIMOD aims to raise awareness among the regional and international community about ICIMOD’s celebrations of IYB in the region and how the centre commemorated the IYB theme. The Fair will also be used as means to communicate the value of Himalayan biodiversity for the livelihoods of the people and the challenges faced due to various threats including climate change. Along with the display of posters on biodiversity, livelihoods, and gender, there will be a colorful presentation on ‘IYB Celebrations in the HKH’ supported by short Video and picture slide followed by discussion.
- Title: The use of CEPA by local authorities to implement the objectives of the CBD
Organized by: ICLEI-LAB
Date and Time Wednesday 27 October 2010, 13:15pm – 15:00pm
Venue: CEPA Fair, First Floor, Building 2 Room 216 A
Cities and local authorities are key players in the implementation of the objectives of the CBD. This activity outlines their involvement in the CBD from a CEPA angle – firstly by describing the CEPA activities leading up to and surrounding the CBD COPs themselves; and secondly by illustrating how some cities and local authorities are engaged in CEPA activities that result in direct implementation of the CBD objectives n the ground.
- Title: Implementing the Rio Conventions through activities in the fields of communications, education and public awareness
Organized by: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Date and Time Wednesday 27 October 2010, 18:15pm – 19:45pm
Venue: CEPA Fair, First Floor, Building 2 Room 216 A
Panelists will share best practices implementing public awareness and education activities focusing on interlinkages between climate change, loss of biological diversity and desertification, especially within the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s International Year on Biodiversity; and the Joint Framework Initiative for Children, Youth and Climate Change.
Panelists will also alert participants to the upcoming intermediate review of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) amended New Delhi work programme, and seek inputs for the final review to take place in 2012.
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