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1.25 MILLION SPECIES - LAUNCH OF THE CATALOGUE OF LIFE 2010 SPECIAL EDITION IN SUPPORT OF THE GTI

The 2010 Special Edition of the Catalogue of Life provides a single species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy covering 1.25 million species, and celebrates the diversity of life on Earth. This meeting will outline major developments funded in the Second Phase of the CoL Programme, including the ...

2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership: Lessons learnt from the current process, and recommendations for post-2010

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership draws on the outputs and experiences of over 40 partner organizations, as well as a range of Parties, MEA bodies and the private sector in understanding the challenges faced in monitoring progress towards a global biodiversity target. Highlighting the ...

A Global Emergency Strategy for Coral Reef Ecosystems

This side event will focus on coral reefs, the world’s most biodiverse marine ecosystems, and the need for a global emergency strategy to ensure their protection and restoration. The crisis facing coral reefs through the combined effects of climate change and direct anthropogenic impacts was hig ...

A New Vision for Biodiversity Conservation

IUCN's position on the post-2010 Strategic Plan of the CBD, its Mission, Vision and Targets will be presented at this event. Some targets will be presented in detail to promote further discussion about their rationale and follow up mechanisms.

Achievements in PoWPA Implementation

The Programme of Work on Protected Areas has some great success stories in implementation; some of which have come to light during the recent series of regional workshops on capacity building and review of implementation held from October to December 2009. In collaboration with PoWPA Friends, t ...

Adapting the Laws and Governance of Biological Diversity to Climate Change: Frameworks for Policymakers and Practitioners

Climate change is quickly undermining the ability of laws and policies governing biodiversity to achieve long-term objectives. These laws generally assume that ecological conditions are static, at least within certain parameters. They may forbid translocation of organisms, provide management or ...

Adapting to climate change in Africa– identifying impacts and planning adaptive management responses

BirdLife will present the results of recent work that has examined the projected impacts of climate change on the distribution of birds and other biodiversity throughout Africa and the resilience of a network of over 800 Important Bird Areas across the region. An Adaptive Management Framework i ...

Addressing the Bushmeat Crisis: Recommendations from the Bushmeat Liaison Group

The National and International Level Recommendations towards a more Sustainable Use of Bushmeat will be addressed by SBSTTA as part of item 3.1.6 of the provisional agenda on the implementation of Article 10 of the Convention (Sustainable Use of Biodiversity). The review of implementation inclu ...

Recommendation XIV/10

Agricultural biodiversity

An easy, low-cost strategy to stop species extinction and meet 2010 and post-2010 targets: the Alliance for Zero Extinction

The Alliance for Zero Extinction is seeking a bold post-2010 target to halt loss of Earth’s species. Hear from nations that have already demonstrated that protecting species threatened with extinction can be low cost and easy and has helped meet the 2010 target. Sites with AZE species are also h ...

Analysis of the biodiversity effects of different policy options. A contribution to the TEEB report

The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) worked out 9 policy options that could contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of global biodiversity and a few ecosystem goods and services. Policy options are defined here as alternative pathways for policymakers along which to i ...

Anthropogenic ocean noise and its impact on biodiversity

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BIODIVERSITY DATA IN ACTION TOWARDS CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY - GBIF)

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 ...

Best Parcticese in Japan on Financial Mechanism for the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity

There are so many best practices in Japan for the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity such as forest tax, watershed protection tax, paddy field subsidiary for underground water by government and company etc. IGES has been survey these financial mechanism for biodiversity and we will e ...

Biocultural Community Protocols - a community approach to ensuring the integrity of environmental law and policy

The side event will present Biocultural Community Protocols as one approach by which indigenous and local communities can set out terms on how they expect other stakeholders to engage with them regarding their natural resources and traditional knowledge. BCPs can reference customary as well as n ...

Biodiversity, climate change and agriculture: Enhancing or eroding resilience?

Biodiversity is fundamental to resilient ecosystems, which are themselves key for climate stability. Agricultural biodiversity is crucial for ensuring food supply, especially in times of unstable climate. In contrast, industrial agriculture damages ecosystems and biodiversity, while accelerati ...

Building Partnerships to improve the management of Coastal and Marine ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean

Coastal and Marine ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean provide food and other goods and services of strategic importance to livelihoods and national economies. These ecosystems however are increasingly being degraded due to human induced threats such as over exploitation, habitat loss and cl ...

Building a Conservation Vision for the Amazon Biome

To show the progress in the implementation of the program of work of protected area in the Amazon Biome, as a way to build complementarity with national systems, to better achieve fully representative conservation focusing particularly on the maintenance of ecosystem services for adaptation, in ...

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SIXTH TRONDHEIM CONFERENCE ON BIODIVERSITY 1 – 5 FEBRUARY 2010 – “GETTING THE BIODIVERSITY TARGETS RIGHT . WORKING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity have since 1993 provided a valuable forum for science-policy dialogue. The sixth conference was held on 1 – 5 February 2010 in Trondheim, Norway, and gathered more than 300 participants from 100 countries, representing governments, the scientific communi ...

Collaboration between CBD and UNFF

The side event will provide further information on the collaboration between the UNFF and CBD Secretariat, including proposed joint capacity building activities.

Competing claims: biodiversity, food, wood, biofuels and climate change

The world is aiming at food, wood and energy security with minimizing climate change and safeguarding biodiversity. However, these issues are mutually related; solving the one should be integrated with solving the other ones. In the side-event, quantitative options for biodiversity are related t ...

Recommendation XIV/11

Consideration of proposals related to the programme of work on dry and sub-humid lands

Coping with Climate Change: How are Indigenous Peoples and Rural Communities Using Agrobiodiversity to Adapt.

The side event will show how indigenous people and rural communities are using agrobiodiversity to help cope with climate change. Working with farmers around the world, the Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research has collected information on the use of agrobiodiversity by farmers and communitie ...

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Economic tools to incorporate ecosytem services into decision-making

This side event focuses on how and why to value ecosystem services, the scope for innovative financial mechanisms to capture these values and relevance to the CBD. The WBCSD’s Ecosystem Valuation Initiative (EVI) in which IUCN is a key partner is guiding companies to introduce ecosystem valuatio ...

Recommendation XIV/9

Examination of the outcome-oriented goals and targets (and associated indicators) and consideration of their possible adjustment for the period beyond 2010

Exploring biodiversity co-benefits of climate change mitigation measures: Bringing the CBD and UNFCCC agendas closer together

Through the implementation of climate change mitigation measures it is likely that co-benefits, such as biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services, can be gained in addition to emission reductions. Jointly organised by BfN, the LifeWeb Initiative and UNEP-WCMC, this side ...

FOREST EUROPE: Enriching Biodiversity — 2010 and beyond

The side event will: • present FOREST EUROPE contributions to actions for achieving 2010 Biodiversity Target; • highlight the existing and potential role of sustainable forest management and actions towards achieving 2010 target and post-2010; • stimulate discussion on how to strengthen sust ...

Forest Biodiversity and REDD+

Sustainable management of forests including conservation is a vital part of the solution to solving two of the most pressing environmental issues: climate change and biodiversity loss. Reducing deforestation and forest degradation is a challenge that requires coordination between experts working ...

Recommendation XIV/12

Forest biodiversity: Collaboration with the UNFF secretariat and report on cooperation on the monitoring of forest biodiversity and on clarifying the definitions of forest and forest types

Recommendation XIV/13

Further work on gaps and inconsistencies in the international regulatory framework on invasive alien species introduced as pets, aquarium and terrarium species, as live bait and live food, and best practices for addressing the risks associated with their introduction

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY OUTLOOK-3: BIODIVERSITY FUTURES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

This side event, jointly organised by DIVERSITAS and UNEP-WCMC, will present the main findings of the Global Biodiversity Outlook-3, and the associated study: "Biodiversity Scenarios: projections of 21st century changes in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services". This assessment is based ...

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY OUTLOOK-3: PROGRESS TOWARDS THE 2010 TARGET, FUTURE PROSPECTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE POST-2010 STRATEGIC PLAN

This side event, will present the main findings of the Global Biodiversity Outlook-3, drawing upon the analysis of CBD Indicators by the authours of the paper recently published in Science (Butchart et al, April 29th). The event will also provide an introduction to a study of projections of 21s ...