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"Practicing Synergies Initiative": Joining Heads & Hands in the Implementation of the Rio Conventions

<br>Synergy between the Rio Conventions is being addressed at various levels under the UNCCD, UNFCCC and CBD. The "Practicing Synergy Initiative" aims to reach out to the national and local level actions and activities that are being implemented especially by country parties. The sharing of prac ...

Access & Benefit Sharing: Case Studies of Peru and Brazil

Access and Benefit Sharing: Reflections on the First Decade

Access or Biopiracy?

<p>In the context of access and benefit sharing discussions, outstanding speakers from China, Philippines, Ecuador, Malaysia, and the US make vivid the many faces and forms of biopiracy. Presentations focus on how bioprospecting, genetic research, and even apparently well-meaning NGO initiat ...

Access to Genetic Resources and FPIC

This is one of the five (5) workshops being organised by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) which has an Advisory Status to the COP.

Access to Traditional Knowledge

Applying the Ecosystem Approach

Assessing Progress Toward 2010: Targets + Indicators

<br>At its sixth meeting, the Conference of the Parties adopted a Strategic Plan, including the target to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national level, as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all lif ...

BROCHURE LAUNCH

Best and Worst Practices in Protected Areas

Biodiversity & Business

What synergies can and should Parties and NGOs develop with the private sector? How can this work?

Biodiversity Loss and a Call for Action

Biodiversity Nature Detectives - Launch of Pilot Platform

<br><b>BioDets: a pilot-website on nature observation</b> <br><b>BioDets:</b>Biodiversity Detectives <a href=http://www.BioDets.net>www.BioDets.net</a> is an Internet-based pilot-platform on nature observation, which is being officially launched at this COP-7 side event. <br> <br>The BioDets ...

Biodiversity in the Deep Sea: the Biodiversity of Seamounts and Cold Water Coral Communities

<br>The high seas and deep oceans comprise the largest habitat for life of Earth. The “high seas” cover an estimated 50% of the Earth’s surface, 64% of the oceans’ surface, and include the deep seabed “Area” (as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) and the water column ...

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land and Water Degradation and Persistent Organic Pollutants

<p>Reliable scientific knowledge is a necessary condition for informed policy formulation. Habiba Gitay, Ivar Baste, Walt Reid and Bob Watson will discuss four assessment processes that will provide critical information for all stakeholders involved in the conservation, sustainable use and equi ...

Biodiversity: its Importance to Human Health

Blueprint for Saving Pacific Sea Turtles

<p><b>By Invitation Only</b></p><p>WorldFish and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) are hosting an event titled "Building integrated solutions for marine turtle conservation: A Blueprint for Saving Pacific Turtles" at lunchtime on Monday February 16th. The event will focus on integrated approaches ...

Book Presentation on Genetic Resources Governance in Africa

<br>This event is jointly organised by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and the Southern Environmental & Agricultural Policy Research Institute (SEAPRI) to present a new book “African Perspectives on Genetic Resources: A Handbook on Laws, Policies and Institutions” edited by Kent Nnadozie, ...

CEPA DEMONSTRATION OF PORTALS

CHM TechTrans "The 40 shades of technology transfer"

CHM/CEPA

CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY IN MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS

<br><b>Locale</b><br>Pan-Pacific Hotel<br>Ballroom C<br><br>Lunch will be provided

CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY BY LINKING WOLDLIFE, LOCAL COMMUNITY& ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION-HUNTING PROGRAMS WORLWIDE

Call of the Earth - Llamado de la Tierra

Capacity building for the Global Taxonomy Initiative : The contribution of the Belgian Development Cooperation

Capacity development scorecard

Carbon Trading for Poverty Reduction and Biodiversity Conservation

Catalyzing The Sustainability of Protected Area Systems

<br><b>Locale</b><br>Pan-Pacific Hotel<br>Bunga Melor/Tanjung Room<br><br>Lunch will be provided

Challenges and Opportunities in Nature Reserve Management in South China

<br>Dr Michael Lau, China Programme Coordinator, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden. <br><br> South China is one of the hotspots for biodiversity. There are over 240 nature reserves covering 23,000 sq. km. However, like many protected areas in developing countries, they face many challenges. Most ...

Climate Change And Biodiversity

Climate Change and Biodiversity: Report of the Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group

<p>The key results of the Report of the Ad-Hoc Group on Biological Diversity and Climate Change will be presented by several of the authors (Bob Watson, Habiba Gitay, Braulio Dias, and Horst Korn and Kanta Kumari) on the following topics:</p> <li>Biodiversity and Linkages to Biodiversity <li>Cl ...

Cloud Forest Agenda for Action

<br>This is to launch The Cloud Forest Agenda Report in support to the CBD agenda on Mountain Biodiversity which will be discussed on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th February. This report is the very first detailed report of its type outlining statistics which have been unknown until now.

Community Based Approaches for Understanding Ecosystems and Building Capacity among Participants

<br>The goal of this side-event is to give participants an understanding of resilience theory, panarchy, socio-ecological systems, adaptive ecosystem management and its application to ecosystem approaches to management of natural resources as developed by the Resilience Alliance (RA). These po ...

Community Capacity Building in Asserting Community Rights to Seeds

Conservation Finance

Conservation of Biodiversity in Central Zagros Mountain Ecosystems

<br>The Iranian Department of Environment in collaboration with UNDP-GEF is formulating an integrated mechanism to effectively conserve biodiversity resources in Central Zagros Mountain Ecosystems in Western Iran. The project as a demonstration experience will bring together sustainable use of b ...

Cooperative Initiative on Island Alien Species: Update

Corals

Critical Issues in Biodiversity Conservation & Sustainable Use

Critical Issues in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

Customary Law and Sui Generis Protection of Indigenous Knowledge

Demonstration of resources and support available for people working in education and communication (Parties and NGOs) through CBD, CCCF, Ramsar, IUCN and related Web sites (daily)

Dr. David Suzuki presents "The Sacred Balance - Episode One - Journey Into New Worlds"

<br>David T. Suzuki PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. <br><br> During this event, Dr. Suzuki will present the film “Journey Into New Worlds”. This one-hour film is the first in the series of 4 documentaries prepared by D ...

ECOLOGY OF HEALTH AND CONSERVATION MEDECINE

EVALUATION OF THE GEF BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM

<br><b>Locale</b><br>Pan Pacific Kuala Lumpur Hotel <br>Biliki Meranti Room – Level 4<br><br> <b>Introduction by: </b>Claudio Volonte, GEF M&E Unit, GEF <br><b>Chair: </b>Dr. Holly Dublin, Lead Consultant on the Evaluation <br><br>The Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Global Environment Fa ...

Ecoagriculture: Conserving Biodiversity in Working Landscapes

<br>Ecoagriculture refers to resource management systems and practices that integrate productivity goals (for crops, livestock, fish, trees and forests) with provision of ecosystem services (such as biodiversity and watershed services) at a landscape scale. <br><br> Ecoagriculture Partners is ...

Ecological networks and conservation corridors

Ecology of health or Conservation Medicine

Energy and Biodiversity Initiative

The Energy and Biodiversity Initiative (EBI) is a consortium of 9 conservation organizations and companies (BP, ChevronTexaco, Conservation International, Fauna & Flora International, Shell, Smithsonian Institution, Statoil, The Nature Conservancy, and IUCN - The World Conservation Union). We h ...

GEF'S BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM STUDY