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ISSUE BASED MODULES FOR THE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY RELATED CONVENTIONS

The 2010 biodiversity target makes efforts on synergy and harmonization among biodiversity related agreements important and urgent. Since different MEAs often relate to common issues, UNEP is developing issue-based modules on four crosscutting issues: Inland Water, Sustainable Use, Invasive Alie ...

Implementing the CBD: Experiences in Canada

Implementation of the CBD in a large and diverse nation such as Canada involves numerous government and private sector actors, and a variety of approaches. Biodiversity conservation has emerged as an important consideration for Canada’s natural resource-dependent economy. Sub-national governme ...

HUNGER OF SOY. THE OTHER FACE OF THE TRANSGENIC SOY IN ARGENTINAL

Environmental Valuation Databases and Benefit Transfer: Overview, Methods and Operational Issues

Presentation on environmental databases, their main accomplishment in natural resources valuation and main challenges in their maintenance and ongoing update

DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity

An information session that will provide background information on DNA barcoding and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL). Barcoding is the use of short standardized gene regions to identify species. It can be used in biodiversity research, regulatory enforcement and other application ...

New developments in the CHM (enhancing capacities at the national and regional levels)

New developments developed and implemented by national and regional CHMs will be demonstrated and discussed. The CBD CHM will also demonstrate new tools developed to enhance collaborative work and increase participation in the programme areas and cross-cutting issues of the Convention, particula ...

THE 2010 BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS PARTNERSHIP : PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF THE GEF PROJECT

Remote sensing is a tool that could be used more widely to support biodiversity conservation decision making. A number of conservation NGOs have been working with NASA and UNEP to develop guidance for those working at the national level on how remote sensing could be used to assess progress in a ...

'Mountains to Sea': a tool for ecosystem-based, cross-biome, integrated implementation of the CBD.

Presentation of the 'Mountains to Sea' discussion paper and open discussion of its value as a tool for Parties to implment the CBD .

The Conservation Commons: Addressing Challenges of Integrating Biodiversity and Geospatial Data

Environmental degradation and habitat loss continue to accelerate. Solutions may be found to reverse this trend, but only with comprehensive data, information and knowledge on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Data access and knowledge sharing are not simple tasks, however. D ...

Update on the ISSUE BASED MODULES FOR THE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY RELATED CONVENTIONS

The 2010 biodiversity target makes efforts on synergy and harmonization among biodiversity related agreements important and urgent. Since different MEAs often relate to common issues, UNEP is developing issue-based modules on four crosscutting issues: Inland Water, Sustainable Use, Invasive Alie ...

Perverse Incentives: the potential impact of market-based conservation mechanisms

Presentation of a number of case studies on the social and environmental impacts of market-based conservation mechanisms on local communities, with a specific attention for the impacts on women. The presentations will be followed by discussion.

Progress by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) on Streamlining Forest-related Reporting

CPF members will inform participants of the achievements and future plans in streamlining forest-related reporting to international organizations. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how the initiative would help reduce reporting burdens on countries, improve information management ...

The Ecological Footprint: Preserving Biodiversity by Reducing Human Demand

Overview of the Ecological Footprint. We will explain how the Ecological Footprint attempts to answer one central conservation question: ‘how much of the regenerative capacity of the biosphere is occupied by human activities.’ We will show how Footprint accounts simply compare people’s demand on ...

Half a Million Species: The Sp2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life and the GTI

Brief introduction to the present Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life programme, and its recent progress beyond half a million species. Discussion of the Phase 2 programme to complete the Catalogue by 2011, to link globally with regional taxonomic hubs, and to make partnerships at the regio ...

BioTrade: An incentive measure for sustainable use

The session will address three topics related to Articles 10 and 11 of the CBD: · Biotrade principles and the Addis Ababa principles · Biotrade and sustainability certification schemes · Biotrade and sustainable use plans

Consortium for the Barcode of Life Member Organization Business Meeting

Member Organizations of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) are invited to meet informally to discuss progress since the last meeting in London (8 February 2005).

The Role of Biodiversity Offsets in Conservation - an open Roundtable Discussion

Biodiversity offsets are an increasingly used and advocated as a potential mitigation option for residual impacts. They have been defined as “conservation actions intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, so as to ensure no net loss ...

Putting Article 10(c) into Practice: Protecting and Encouraging Customary Use of Biodiversity

A workshop to discuss and explore ways and means to further the implementation of Article 10 (c) of the Convention, which requires Parties to “…protect and encourage customary use of biological resources in accordance with traditional cultural practices that are compatible with conservation and ...

An integrated approach to the valuation and sustainable management of agrobiodiversity: Is it what the Doctor orders?

Following a review of the state of the art of valuation of the components of agrobiodiversity (crops, livestock, trees and aquatic genetic resources), an integrated research agenda is presented for discussion based on the hypotheses that: i) scientific research about agrobiodiversity can be adva ...

Sustainable Use Indicators: Needs and challenges

This Side Event is designed as a public forum to examine and discuss the needs and challenges faced in the development and application of indicators of sustainable use. The experience of the European approach to development of sustainable use indicators will be shared. Attempts at developing su ...

Whole Forest Observatories: A proposed Internaitonal Network for Monitoring Canopy Biodiversity and Global Climate Change

The Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) - progress in implementing the Program of Work and challenges ahead.

Several projects and initiatives in support of the GTI Program of Work will be presented by different stakeholders from the insititutional, national and international level. Presenters will include representatives of individual projects, national GTI focal points, and international organisations.

The UNEP Global Environmental Outlook and how it relates to CBD

Over more that ten years, UNEP has established a process for regular delivery of a peer-reviewed state of environment report, the Global Environmental Outlook. There is clear potential both for ensuring that this report and the associated process are of more direct value to the CBD, and for ensu ...

GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FOREST BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: RESULTS FROM THE GLOBAL FOREST RESOURCES ASSESSMENT 2005

Meeting of the GTI Coordination Mechanism

Closed meeting for current members of the GTI Coordination Mechanism

INFORMAL JOINT MEETING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN SBSTTA-11 AND THE 23 RD MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE OF THE UNFCCC. FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION PROVIDED BY ENVIRONMENT OF CANADA

The status of the world’s leading species-level biodiversity indicators: What will they tell us about biodiversity trends in 2010 and beyond?

The presentations will highlight current trends in species level biodiversity, outline some of the major gaps in our knowledge, and discuss the type of policy relevant information the LPI and IUCN SRLI could potentially produce for the 2010 target and beyond.

Peatland Biodiversity and Climate Change

This event will showcase some success stories of restoration of peatland ecosystems, besides introducing some options and strategies for integrated management of peatlands for biodiversity as well as climate change. Presentatoin will also cover the vulnerability and adaptation options of peatlan ...

Guidelines for applying the Precautionary Principle to Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Resource Management

New Guidelines for applying the Precautionary Prinicple have been developed by the Precautionary Principle Project, a partnership of Fauna & Flora International, IUCN, ResourceAfrica and TRAFFIC. The guidelines will be presented at the meeting.

Toward an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (Imoseb)

Moving from Rhetoric to Action on Adaptation

The World Resources Institute is bringing together experts from the climate, biodiversity, and development arenas for a new dialogue on helping people and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate.

"The Global Terrestrial Observing System and the Global Land Cover Network: mapping progress towards 2010"

The side event is structured to provide an opportunity for presenting and discussing GTOS and GLCN products and services with respect to CBD requirements within the framework of Target 2010. The Agenda of the Side Event is currently being finalised.

Conservation of Nordic Nature in a changing Climate

Seeing that e.g. -  plants bloom at an earlier time  the growing season is extended  butterfly species from more southern parts of Europe show up in the Nordic nature  the fishermen more frequent get tropical fishes in their nets  cold-water species like cod and plaice are reduced in numbe ...

SEFA, A user-friendly reference database on environmental follow-up

Just need a table (for flyers display and other informative material) and a panel for a poster. Material would be available in english, french and spanish.

V-GURTS (TERMINATOR) AS BIOLOGICAL CONTAINMENT TOOL?

Development of an indicator for the direct measurement of the status and trends of indigenous and traditional knowledge

In accordance with Article 8j of the CBD, the 2010 Targets identify Focal Area 5, "Status of traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices" as one of the key areas for the development of indicators relevant to the goal to “achieve a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity l ...

Sui Generis Protection Mechanisms: the Asia Indigenous Peoples' Experience

Features indigenous community experiences on "sui generis" protection mechanisms in the Asia region providing an overview of "sui generis" protection from the context of indigenous peoples.

Workshop on CBD Implementation: National and Regional Experiences

Presentation of experiences and indigenous participation at the national and regional level (Asia and Latin America) in the implementation of the Convention, in particular Article 8(j).

Local Communities and Traditional Knowledge Protection: Experience from Colombia

The event will focus on the experience of Afro-Colombian communities in developing internal regulations for the protection of traditional knowledge.

THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: RECENT PROGRESS IN THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) REGARDING THE PROTECTION OF TK AGAINST MISAPPROPRIATION

Potential Impacts of Terminator technology - Genetic Use Restriction Technolgies (GURTS)

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Rights: An Enabling Tool for Development with Identity

It reports some creative ways in which documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge can be carried out without losing community ownership over intellectual property rights. It also presents the general findings of the documentation, current and future uses of the documented knowledge, and how this ...

Putting Article 10(c) into Practice: Protecting and Encouraging Customary Use of Biodiversity

A workshop to discuss and explore ways and means to further the implementation of Article 10 (c) of the Convention, which requires Parties to "protect and encourage customary use of biological resources in accordance with traditional cultural practices that are compatible with conservation and s ...

PRESENTACIÓN DE LA POLÍTICA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACIÓN CON LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS

Impacts of Terminator Technology on Indigenous Peoples in the Andes: Results of a consultation with Quechua farmers in a Center of Origin and Diversity of Potatoes

Seventy-one indigenous leaders and community members from six districts and twenty-six communities in the Andes and Amazon of the Department of Cuzco gathered in the civic center of the remote mountain village of Choquecancha, Peru on the 26th and 27th of September to discuss the potential impac ...

Will the access of Genetic and Biological Resources ensure sharing of benefits and sustainable use?

Experiences of the Kani People in India on the access of genetic resources and benefit-sahring as a model, to indigenous communities of Thailand and Indonesia on sustainable use of biodiversity.

REINFORCING KNOWLEDGE RETENTION AND TRANSMISSION: RECENT UNESCO WORK INCLUDING PRESENTATION OF AN INTERACTIVE CD-ROM ON INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF WAYFINDING AND THE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT.

Illegal access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge

Presentation of videos regarding ilegal access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as well as the Andean Amazonic Iniciative against biopiracy

Livestock Keepers ' Rights

Presentations by Tom Loquang, KISUP ATEKER Uganda; P. Vivekanandan SEVA, Madurai, India; S. Gura, League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

Elements for Sui Generis Systems: Collective Bio-Cultural Heritage and Customary Laws in Peru, Panama, India, China and Kenya.

To present key lessons for the development of sui generis systems, based on research with indigenous and local communities on customary laws and practices relating to the management and protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources - rice, potatoes, maize & medicinal plants