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Meeting Document
#96194
2013-11-01

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/17/REV1

Report of the Second Meeting of the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 Advisory Group

Side Event
#2969
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-17

A Global Movement to Champion Aichi Target 1

This side-event will explore the diversity of work being done around the work to connect the public to nature, of innovation and best practice in reaching new audiences, and of the road to the World Parks Congress, where partners will come together to support the growth of a global movement dedi ...

Side Event
#2974
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-17

Implementing Targets 11 and 12: A Framework to identify "areas of particular importance for biodiversity"

This side event will present tools that can be helpful to countries to effectively implement Aichi Targets 11 and 12, by showing country focused case studies and lessons learned from identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) and management. It will also provide an update on IUCN´s progress ...

Side Event
#2988
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-17

The Role of Law in Achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: Scoping the State of Knowledge

IDLO and the CBD Secretariat, with support from the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment are hosting an interactive session on new thinking on how countries can use law to achieve their goals related to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets - together with partners from the CISDL, IUCN, Natural Just ...

Side Event
#2990
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-17

Building synergies between traditional and scientific knowledge systems in biodiversity monitoring and assessments – such as for the Aichi targets and IPBES

This side event will build on the outcomes of the In Depth Dialogue of the WG 8(j) 8 meeting; “Connecting diverse knowledge systems and science, such as in the IPBES, including gender dimensions”. It will present recent developments of methodologies for connecting traditional and scientific know ...

Side Event
#3027
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-17

TEEB Water and Wetlands

The TEEB Water and Wetlands study has provided important information on the values of water-related ecosystem services to underpin implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (2011-2020) and all of the Achi Biodiversity targets, particularly target 14. The side event will present the n ...

Side Event
#2958
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

"Synergies among biodiversity-related conventions"

“Introduction to a new collaborative project being led by UNEP which will identify and explore opportunities and options for enhancing cooperation at both global and national levels, develop guidance on mobilization of resources for more integrated implementation of MEAs at the national level, a ...

Side Event
#2998
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

Delivering Biodiversity Knowledge in the Information Age - the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook.

The event will launch a new initiative to focus effort and investment towards better understanding of life on Earth and our impacts upon it. The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) offers a framework to harness the immense power of information technology and an open data culture, to g ...

Side Event
#3024
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

Achieving the Aichi Targets: Perverse and Positive Incentives Related to Conserving Biodiversity and the Role of Indigenous and Community Conserved Territories and Areas

The event will discuss successful non-market based approaches and incentive schemes to conserving biodiversity and related traditional knowledge, including the redirection of perverse incentives that promote unsustainable forms and levels of livestock and bioenergy production, and the developmen ...

Side Event
#2970
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

Culture Collection networks coordinate access and benefit sharing

A series of brief presentations demonstrating the value and engagement of ex situ microbial germplasm in developing and implementing access and benefit as well as in characterizing and cataloging invasive microbes.

Side Event
#2975
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

Measuring Public Awareness on Biodiversity: Recent surveys and methodologies

The challenges of finding common measurements on public awareness of biodiversity will be discussed in this event through a presentation some of the latest survey findings on biodiversity awareness from Parties and Partners such as the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the government of C ...

Side Event
#2979
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

MEAS DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN SUPPORT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BIODIVERSITY

Biodiversity-related MEAs plus other Conventions get together to present and discuss their different strategic and planning processes (as opposed to activities) that are or will take place in support of implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. For example, CMS Parties are developi ...

Side Event
#3017
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

REDD+ AND NBSAP PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION – SYNERGIES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO MEETING THE AICHI TARGETS

Any of the five forest-based climate change mitigation activities included in REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks) can potentially contribute towards t ...

Side Event
#3025
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-16

NEW NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY TARGETS: BRAZIL, JAPAN, FILAND AND GEORGIA

A series of brief presentations from Brazil, Japan, Finland and Georgia on the process of establishing national targets, using the Aichi Biodiversity Targets as a framework. These countries will be sharing their lessons learned, their achievements and will be discussing some of the strategies th ...

Meeting Document
#95965
2013-10-15

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/12

Facilitating National Monitoring and Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Side Event
#2956
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Launch of Seed Map.org – a web portal on Biodiversity, Seeds and Farmers Organized by: USC Canada and ETC Group

The Seedmap.org portal, the first of its kind interactive website on biodiversity, will be launched in October 2013. It shows the state of global agro-biodiversity today, identifies key threats to the world’s seed and biodiversity systems, particularly the impact of climate change, and highlig ...

Side Event
#2968
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEPDD)

Discussion of Sud Expert Plantes (SEP) results and of SEPDD objectives and scheduled activities. SEP focused on the development of scientific capacities in plant biodiversity in 22 countries of Africa and Asia. The next phase, SEPDD will bring academics to work at the interface between researc ...

Side Event
#2971
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Benefits of implementing and achieving Target 12: a countries perspective

Following CBD's Secretariat call for Aichi Target Champions, a group of organizations working on species conservation has established the “Friends of Target 12” partnership which goal is to support CBD parties to meet Aichi Biodiversity Target 12. This side event, organised by BirdLife Internati ...

Side Event
#2983
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Microfinancing for sustainable development and Environment Change

Microfinancing for sustainable development and Environment Change

Side Event
#3009
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

An Indicators Approach to Understanding resilience of Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes: a community-level perspective

An indicator approach has become increasingly used to monitor progress towards achieving specific goals and targets identified in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Millennium Development Goals and other relevant international agreements. While it has played an important role in underst ...

Side Event
#3012
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

IPBES draft Work Programme 2014-2018

The proposed IPBES work programme, developed by the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and Bureau will be presented by the IPBES interim secretariat, in support of SBSTTA-17 agenda items 5 and 7. The draft work programme builds on the input received from CBD, and from governments and other sta ...

Side Event
#2964
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Scenarios Assessment for the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4

The event will provide the delegates with an update on the progress towards the scenarios assessment for the GBO-4. It will introduce methods and approaches used for the assessment, provide information on domains and topics covered for each target, and highlight first results.

Side Event
#2966
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Ecologically or Biologically significant Marine Areas (EBSAs)

Pursuant to CBD decisions X/29 and XI/17, the CBD Secretariat has convened six regional workshops on ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) since November 2011. So far, experts from 92 countries and 79 organizations have contributed to the six CBD workshops. The results of ...

Side Event
#2982
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Mainstreaming Biodiversity

This session will present the results of a recent expert meeting, hosted by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, to review progress in mainstreaming biodiversity in policy and production landscapes over the past 10 years. The Global Environment Facility ...

Side Event
#3000
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Behavioural Change and inclusive wealth: transition to Sustainability

The side event intends to present the key messages and recommendations from the CBD commissioned paper: Managing Biodiversity is about people and the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012. The main objective will be to highlight how the IWR can facilitate change in the way people perceive biodiversity an ...

Side Event
#3004
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

Progress towards the implementation of the CBD Strategic Plan and Aichi Biodiversity Targets through the eradication of invasive alien species in the Caribbean

In partnership with Caribbean-based Parties and non-governmental organizations, Island Conservation will: a) provide case studies of invasive alien species eradication in the Caribbean, highlighting how these successes have effectively furthered multiple Aichi Biodiversity Targets, as well as me ...

Side Event
#3010
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND BIODIVERSITY: THE RELEVANCE OF THE WORK OF THE UN OPEN WORKING GROUP ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR THE BIODIVERSITY COMMUNITY

Raising awareness of the biodiversity community on the relevance of the work for developing the Sustainable Development Goals also in the context of achieving the CBD Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and conveying its overarching vision beyond 2020.

Side Event
#3018
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-15

LifeWeb Financing Partnerships in Support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

LifeWeb's second phase will be presented at this side event. Parties can access detailed information about how to present their financial needs to achieve the area-based Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Donors will learn how LifeWeb helps Parties to create synergies with available funding and how L ...

Side Event
#2960
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-14

The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture

The FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture decided to assess the state of the world’s biodiversity for food and agriculture with a view to launch the first ever report on The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture in 2017. The side event will offer gov ...

Side Event
#2973
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-14

Biodiversity Indicators Partnership – progress at the global and national level

Through Decision XI/3 the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) was requested to support a number of actions concerning global, regional and national indicator development for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. This side event will provide an update on the work of the BIP and inc ...

Side Event
#2980
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-14

Ecosystem restoration & the Aichi Targets, and the launching of “Governance of protected areas: from understanding to action”

This combined event, hosted by the CBD Secretariat, will discuss: a review of assessments on land and ecosystem degradation commissioned by the CBD Secretariat and undertaken by WRI and PBL with partners, new global maps on ecosystem degradation, and how ecosystem restoration can contribute to t ...

Side Event
#2995
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-14

Online reporting of progress in implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Presentation of the pilot version of an online reporting tool on progress made towards the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and related national/sub-national or regional targets.

Side Event
#2996
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-14

Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership

The Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership (GIASIPartnership) has come together to support Parties achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 (Invasive Alien Species). They are doing this by development of tools and improving access to existing resources. The Side Event will explore wh ...

Side Event
#3005
SBSTTA 17
2013-10-14

CBD enforcement and benefit sharing undermined by commercial takeover

Two decades of CBD implementation have not led up to the initial expectations; Many of the CBD provisions are not respected, resulting in increasing biopiracy and other violations. In this side event, different legislations, legislative proposals and violating conditions like biopiracy will be c ...

Meeting Document
#95943
2013-10-14

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/16

Review of the Use of Remotely-Sensed Data for Monitoring Biodiversity Change and Tracking Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Meeting Document
#95941
2013-10-14

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/14

Draft Report of the Expert Workshop on Enhancing Biodiversity Data and Observing Systems in Support of the Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Recommendation
SBSTTA 17
#13226

Recommendation XVII/1

Scientific and technical needs related to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Recommendation
SBSTTA 17
#13227

Recommendation XVII/2

New and emerging issues

Recommendation
SBSTTA 17
#13228

Recommendation XVII/3

Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Meeting Document
#95940
2013-10-13

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/11

Global Invasive Alien Species Information Partnership: Progress Report on Activities

Meeting Document
#95939
2013-10-13

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/13

Relevant Documents Prepared for the Second Session of the Relplenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy

Meeting Document
#95912
2013-10-11

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/9

Capacity Building Activities of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP)

Meeting Document
#95911
2013-10-11

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/10

Key Biodiversity Areas: Identifying Areas of Particular Importance for Biodiversity in Support of the Aichi Targets

Meeting Document
#95877
2013-10-08

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/4

Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: Delivering Biodiversity Knowledge in the Information Age

Meeting Document
#95876
2013-10-08

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/2

Biodiversity and Sustainable Development – The Relevance of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

Meeting Document
#95865
2013-10-07

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/6

Incorporating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Values into NBSAPs: Roadmap to Support NBSAP Practitioners

Meeting Document
#95864
2013-10-07

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/6/ADD2

Incorporating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Values into NBSAPS: Guidance to Support NBSAP Practitioners

Meeting Document
#95863
2013-10-07

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/6/ADD1

Incorporating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Values into NBSAPS: Annex – Country Case Studies

Meeting Document
#95862
2013-10-07

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/4/REV1

Contribution of the Convention to the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Intersessional Process

Meeting Document
#95861
2013-10-07

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/5

Moment of Opportunity: Report of the Co-Chairs of the Seventh Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity

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