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#2220COP 10
2010-10-28
the Prospective View of 2012 World Conservation Congress (WCC)
"the Prospective View of 2012 World Conservation Congress" aims to the promotion and preparation of 2012 World Conservation Congress(WCC) which will be held in the Republic of Korea in 2012. It is organized by Ministry of Environment (Republic of Korea), Korea National Park Service, Jeju special ...
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#2335COP 10
2010-10-28
Youth for the CBD: Diverse Networks, Common Purpose
Every day, organizations for youth and children around the world engage and take concrete action for biodiversity. The meeting of the Conference of the Parties is a unique occasion for them to demonstrate they are taking their planet and their future seriously. This event provides opportunity to ...
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#2327COP 10
2010-10-20
YOUNG HANDS TOGETHER FOR DIVERSITY LAUNCH
A side event to launch the youth quick guide to biodiversity and the biodiversity challenge badge (major learning materials to be disseminated through The Green wave and the WAGGGS network).
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#2254COP 10
2010-10-22
Why Global Forest Governance Matters
Forest challenges, such as REDD and access and benefit sharing, are highly cross-sectoral, necessitating engagement across sectors and interests in a complex forest regime. Over the past 10 months, an IUFRO-led Expert Panel on the International Forest Regime carried out a global scientific asses ...
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#2243COP 10
2010-10-25
Where the Wild Things Are: The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) and an A-Z of sites of biodiversity importance for business
The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for Business provides key decision-makers with access to comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date biodiversity information to support critical decisions. For the first time, users can access critical biodiversity information at the site level whic ...
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#2226COP 10
2010-10-27
When parks are not enough: Ecosystem resilience and change in the Arctic
Event provides for discussion of new application of the ecosystem approach to move from current preservation of species/habitats/systems as they are now and “always” to focus on building resilience for terrestrial and marine ecosystems to address challenge of management through change and under ...
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#2145COP 10
2010-10-21
Wetlands and Urbanisation
This side event will illustrate the linkages between the issues of urbanization, inland waters, biodiversity, public health and resilience to climate change. This side event will be organised by Wetlands International with the involvement of the secretariats of the Ramsar Convention, CBD and the ...
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#2290COP 10
2010-10-20
Wet Carbon: Using carbon finance to restore wetlands, conserve biodiversity and secure livelihoods
Several recent initiatives are exploring the benefits for biodiversity, climate and livelihoods of conserving and restoring wetlands. This event includes presentations from experts involved in the science, practice and financing of wet carbon projects, including on-going work by IUCN and its par ...
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#2222COP 10
2010-10-26
Well being, Bioenterprises and Endogenous Development
Concepts of well being are defined differently in different worldviews, although they eventually aim to reach a level of welfare. Building on research and practices undertaken by the different partners, the side event will focus on the development and roles of bio-enterprises through endogenous ...
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#2087COP 10
2010-10-25
Waste and Biodiversity
Waste mangaement based on 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) approach helps towards biodiversity. On the one hand, reduced levels of waste generation, or efficient use of resources, would reduce the burden on natural resources including forests and water; thus, leading to conserve and support biodiv ...
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#2075COP 10
2010-10-21
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, WORLD COMMISSION ON PROTECTED AREAS
Managing protected areas as part of an integrated, connected landscape has gained momentum as an approach that delivers multiple benefits, including conserving biodiversity, securing local livelihoods, and strengthening the resilience of natural and human communities to the impacts of climate ch ...
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#1752COP 10
2010-10-26
Vanishing Tiger - Will the iconic species and Asian Biodiversity survive the Asia century?
This side event will explore the relationship between the strengthening position of Asian countries and the survival of its rich biodiversity, including the Tiger. The 21st Century is commonly regarded as the Asia Century. The Asian Development Bank estimates that about $750 billion per year wil ...
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#1919COP 10
2010-10-22
Valuing and managing marine resources for human wellbeing
This session will examine the complexities of valuing and managing the oceans for human wellbeing. The importance of the oceans to people will be demonstrated by the first global economic valuation of marine ecosystem services, specifically shoreline protection, recreation and fisheries. The s ...
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#2189COP 10
2010-10-27
VIVAT International Forum on Biodiversity and Environmental Governance: strengthening synergy, interrelatedness and participation in environmental decision-making
A brief symposium consisting on three ten-minute presentations by experts followed by a panel discussion. The focus will be on the need for an integrated approach to environmental governance that correlates different environmental issues with one another and also with other social issues, and th ...
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#2285COP 10
2010-10-21
Understanding The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): An IUCN Workshop and Seminar Series (Sponsored by Mercuria)
In 2010-2011 IUCN will offer training opportunities, building on the TEEB project and designed to support developing country policy-makers in the preparation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and other environmental policies. This side event will outline the initiativ ...
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#2236COP 10
2010-10-22
Una mirada a la efectividad de manejo desde los sistemas de áreas protegidas
Analizar la efectividad en el manejo de áreas protegidas y los sistemas que éstas conforman, es sin duda una acción estratégica, en la medida que reconoce las oportunidades y limitantes que tiene la gestión y administración de este tipo de estrategias de conservación in situ. A su vez, tanto par ...
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#2261COP 10
2010-10-25
USAID’s Biodiversity Programs: International Development through Conservation Action
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) invests more than $US 200 million per year in biodiversity conservation in approximately 60 countries. For more than 30 years, USAID has supported projects that promote conservation of species and habitats in ways that reduce poverty and impro ...
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#1753COP 10
2010-10-26
UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MAB) Program, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and Japanese activities
Symposium will be held on MAB activities in Japan and the world linked with ESD to highlight the relationship with “sustainable use of ecosystem services”, in collaboration with the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japanese Ministry of the En ...
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#2311COP 10
2010-10-21
UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING THE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE
This side event will present a new volume of the CBD Technical Series dedicated to an analysis of the systemic character of global change, biodiversity and human development, and the relationships between them. The papers describe and evaluate the complicated relationships and dynamics between h ...
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#1841COP 10
2010-10-20
UK Peatlands; Habitat Restoration Delivering Ecosystem Benefits’
This talk will cover water, carbon and biodiversity benefits, and ties in with the focus of the EU biodiversity policy.
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#2052COP 10
2010-10-22
Transboundary Cooperation for Biodiversity Conservation: A Strategy towards ‘Ecosystem Approach’ of Convention of Biological Diversity and Adaptation to Climate Change
During the side event, ICIMOD in collaboration with UNEP and IUCN-WCPA aims to invite global organizations and experts working on transboundary landscapes and connectivity conservation from across the globe. Invited presentations from global and regional experts, and a panel of political delegat ...
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#2321COP 10
2010-10-27
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)
India has setup Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) as a tool to prevent mis-appropriation/bio-piracy of its Traditional Knowledge at International Patent Offices. TKDL contains information in 34 million pages in a patent application format in five International languages i.e. English, ...
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#2170COP 10
2010-10-20
Towards a green future – biodiversity action on the local level
The side event Towards a green future – biodiversity action on the local level stresses the implementation of the CBD at local level as a key to the success of the Convention. The side event will bring the results of the Nordic project Local Contributions to Meet the 2010 Target into focus, wher ...
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#2084COP 10
2010-10-20
Towards GBIF information services to support the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
This side event will describe how the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) contributes to the Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM) by providing information services that support the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Existing services combining data from vario ...
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#1717COP 10
2010-10-20
Toward achieving the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target
Presentations and panel discussion by multistakeholders for promoting the implementation of post-2010 target, including the discussion of "UN Decade on Biodiversity".
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#1900COP 10
2010-10-27
Tourism and biodiversity :how to achieve common goals towards sustainability
The UNWTO side-event will present the work undertaken by the organization on tourism and biodiversity such as a UNWTO background paper on tourism and biodiversity, the activities developed within the framework of the YDB and World Tourism Day (WTD) and other global initiatives relevant for bio ...
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#2260COP 10
2010-10-18
Top 10 COP-10 - the Top 10 Issues for Civil Society at COP10
In preparation for COP10, many civil society groups working around the CBD, facilitated by the CBD Alliance, joined together to identify the 10 most critical issues to be resolved at COP 10 from a civil society perspective. This side event will feature speakers from North and South, small and la ...
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#2147COP 10
2010-10-19
Tools for mainstreaming NBSAPs in broader development processes
“During this side event the CBD-Secretariat will launch a tool box with new training modules for NBSAPs, several sectoral and a cross-sectoral good practice guides for mainstreaming biodiversity into broader development and poverty reduction processes. The guides cover a wide range of fact sheet ...
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#2229COP 10
2010-10-22
Threatened Ecosystems, Vulnerable People
This event will showcase two of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management’s latest flagship products: the recently-initiated process to develop categories and criteria for assessing the conservation status of ecosystems, and a new publication on ecosystems and climate adaptation – the latest i ...
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#1760COP 10
2010-10-25
The role of Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF)
Participants including donor countries/organizations and recipient countries/organizations will discuss the achievement and future roles of CEPF in implementing CBD.
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#1731COP 10
2010-10-27
The results of the International Youth Conference on Biodiversity in Aichi 2010.
Presentation on the results of the International Youth Conference on Biodiversity in Aichi 2010., which will be held from 21st to 27th of August. Youth participants of the conference will serve as presenters and will present their statement and action plans for their own future.
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#2013COP 10
2010-10-19
The realization of the society maintaining biodiversity through the reintroduction of the crested ibis into nature
The history of the conservation of the once disappeared Crested Ibises in Japan, and the history and current status of their reintroduction
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#1750COP 10
2010-10-19
The partnership for Yellow Sea between local governments, NGOs, GEF and corporate
This meeting gives an introduction to emerging multiple layers of partnerships at international as well as local levels from diverse sectors including international organizations, local governments, NGOs as well as the corporate sector for conservation and management of biodiversity of the Yello ...
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#1926COP 10
2010-10-19
The new strategic plan - have we got the targets right this time?
The Event will present Friends of the Earth's views on the priority areas in the context of the upcoming CBD strategic plan and illustrate some of the core areas of work
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#2155COP 10
2010-10-22
The new CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas Web Portal and E-Curriculum
The completely revised and updated PoWPA web portal on the CBD website is unveiled with new functionalities including thousands of easily searchable resources and an e-curriculum on the PoWPA.
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#1881COP 10
2010-10-18
The new Atlas of Soil Biodiversity
The European Commission has completed the new Soil Biodiversity Atlas as a contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity. The Atlas represents a major initiative to compile and disseminate information on soil biodiversity, its interaction with above-ground biodiversity, and other soil ...
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#1832COP 10
2010-10-21
The impacts of destructive fishing practices, unsustainable fishing, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing on marine biodiversity and habitats
Achieving a viable balance between human use of marine living resources and conservation of marine biodiversity and habitats is essential to secure long-term ecosystem service delivery, including healthy and productive fish populations. This side event will present a report prepared by FAO,UNEP ...
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#1844COP 10
2010-10-20
The Western Indian Ocean: Resilient ecosystems for sustainable livelihoods, adaptation, and human security
Discussion and presentations from countries and institutions in the Western Indian Ocean (islands of the Indian Ocean and coastal areas of East Africa) hosted by the Global island partnership. Will including the environmental and climate change needs and threats and how to address these through ...
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#2165COP 10
2010-10-25
The Universal Value of Biodiverse “Ussuri Taiga” Forest of Southern Russian Far East: Tiger Protection and Indigenous Peoples Sustainability
Middle and Upper Bikin River basin (11,500 km2), a habitat for about 50 Amur tigers and a traditional homeland of the Udege and other indigenous peoples is in need of international attention and effective conservation as the area contains the largest intact Ussuri-Taiga forest in southern Russia ...
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#2101COP 10
2010-10-25
The Sangha Tri-National Landscape: an African Test-Bed for Conservation Innovation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management
The Sangha Tri-National (TNS) Landscape in Central Africa covers over 32,000 km2 and includes three contiguous national parks managed in coordination with each other: Lobeke National Park in Cameroon, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic, and Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in ...
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#2130COP 10
2010-10-20
The Role of Marine Reserves and Wildlife Sanctuaries in Conserving Large Pelagic Species
The side event will consist of a presentation on the current state of global marine biodiversity. Specifically, the presentation will focus on marine biodiversity as it relates to large pelagic species including tuna, sharks and whales. Time will be allotted for discussion and questions.
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#2000COP 10
2010-10-25
The Rights on Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas: identifying criteria for the Work Program on Protected Areas
Protected areas will fail in their delivery if the interests of local communities are ignored. Too often are the rights of indigenous peoples to their land ignored when protected areas are being identified and proposed. ‘Consent’ and ‘control’ are benchmarks against which the establishment and ...
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#2315COP 10
2010-10-21
The Operation of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
The event will provide information on the experiences and update on recent developments in the operation and functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing, as well as the Benefit-Sharing Fund under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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#2208COP 10
2010-10-27
The Next Challenge – the role of finance institutions in accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Asia Pacific region
Between Copenhagen & Rio+20 - UNEP FI aims to capitalize on the platform of the CBD COP 10 in Nagoya to raise awareness amongst financial institutions on the latest findings and expertise regarding the risks involved in the inadequate valuation of nature. Additionally, it aims to increase awaren ...
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#2118COP 10
2010-10-28
The Nature Diversity Act- Best Biodiversity Policy for the Future Policy Award 2010
The Norwegian Nature Diversity Act entered into force on the 1st. of July 2009. Although it was adopted less than a year ago, The Nature Diversity Act has been nominated as Best Biodiversity Policy for the Future Policy Award 2010. The Act is a following-up of national and international obligat ...
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#2284COP 10
2010-10-27
The Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro
Designed to be a platform to think the future, the Museum of Tomorrow will be inaugurated in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The narrative of the Museum explores two ethical axes: sustainability and solidarity. In the area of sustainability, it aims to discuss “How will we live?” And in the ...
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#2305COP 10
2010-10-27
The Micronesia Biosecurity Plan - An unprecedented cooperative effort to proactively analyze and prevent invasive species threats to the region of Micronesia.
The US Government, in conjunction with partners in Micronesia, is completing a comprehensive, science-based biosecurity plan to minimize invasive species threats to the region of Micronesia associated with the pending US Military build-up on Guam. The plan will include risk analyses of invasive ...
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#2204COP 10
2010-10-26
The International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv : Giving voice to indigenous values and knowledge for the benefit of nature conservation
The International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv, held in parallel to COP10, brings together young people from the most precious natural sites our planet has to offer. The participants come from more than twenty natural World Heritage sites in i.e. Mexico, Peru, Congo, Cameroon, Mauritania, Vietnam, Chin ...
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#2280COP 10
2010-10-21
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); status, next steps, and implications for the biodiversity community.
At the 3rd IPBES meeting, held in Busan, Republic of Korea in June 2010, governments agreed to establish a new mechanism to strengthen the interface between science and policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Whilst it will now take a while to become operational, IPBES is likely to signif ...
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#1864COP 10
2010-10-25
The Importance of Biodiversity Data for the Post-2010 Targets
This side event will introduce participants to the importance of biodiversity informatics and the role of international cooperation in the establishment of a common framework and infrastructure for the sharing of biodiversity data to address transboundary issues such as protected areas, marine c ...