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

CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE 2010 BIODIVERSITY TARGET IN DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS-RESULTS OF THE ONLINE DIALOGUE AND REPORT TO COP 9

CONTRIBUTION OF ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES TO BIODIVERSITY SURVEY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MONITORING-1 (FEAT. JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY)

Contribution of artificial satellites to biodiversity survey and climate change monitoring (the first part). Current plan on the topic is as followed: Lecture on highlighting the contribution of artificial satellites to REDD-plus including forest monitoring and greenhouse gases monitoring.

CONTRIBUTION OF ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES TO BIODIVERSITY SURVEY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MONITORING-2 (FEAT. JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY).

Contribution of artificial satellites to biodiversity survey and climate change monitoring (the second part). Current plan on the topic is as followed: Lecture on highlighting the contribution of artificial satellites to climate change and water circulation monitoring and global, regional and Lo ...

CONTRIBUTION OF COLLECTIVE ACTION TO BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

The Plurinational State of Bolivia will submit the study "Contribution of Collective Action to Biodiversity Conservation". This Study has been made in the framework of the XI/14 decision.

COORDINATION MEETING OF GOVERNMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS IMPLEMENTING AND/OR FUNDING CAPACITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN LMO DECISION-MAKING - AN INPUT BY THE COORDINATION MEETING ON BIOSAFETY CAPACITY BUILDING

Participants of the Coordination Mechanism from Austria, Namibia, Netherlands, and Norway will discuss initiatives on and experiences with socio-economic considerations in LMO decision making with delegates and observers. The aim of this side-event is to receive information and suggestions on th ...

COP 9 - Documents Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9) 19 to 30 may 2008 BONN GERMANY

Biological Diversity

COP 9/CBD High Level Segment - Parties´ Commitments for Life on Earth

Explanation of/discussion on possible voluntary Commitments of Parties for achieving the 2010 biodiversity target, being presentetd by the ministers at the COP 9/CBD High Level Segment. What is the "The Life Web Initiative"? What else might be contributions?

CP Thai Private Sector 's contribution to conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing on animal genetic resources.

Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods), one of the largest food producers in Asia with its main production base in Thailand, has been involved in developing projects that support planting mangrove by continuously donating money contributions to several universities such as Kasetsart University, Ramk ...

CREATION OF NORTH-EAST ASIAN BIODIVERSITY FORUM (NEABF) FOR CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY IN NORTH-EAST ASIA

Raise awareness about the eco-geographical importance of the Korean peninsula that boasts major ecological features in North-East Asia including the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range, the DMZ, the Yellow sea, and the East Sea; Create North-East Asian Biodiversity Forum as a regional expert network for ...

CREATIVE RESOURCE MOBILIZATION FOR BIODIVERSITY: PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES, REAL RESULTS

Pioneering countries demonstrate real results of creative resourcing instruments base on their practical experiences.

CROATIA: NATIONAL BIOSAFETY PORTAL

As part of its outreach activities under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Republic of Croatia would like to present a new national biosafety portal. The main purpose of this new portal is to increase awareness on the Protocol, biosafety and GMO issues in general. Further this portal will ...

CSE'S Panel Discussion - Future role of the Youth in Global Environmental Negotiations: Passive observers or active partners?

CSE (www.cseindia.org) is India's leading environment NGO operating since 1980 and we research, publish, train, disseminate and play a leading role in India in spreading the environment message. We designed/developed, and are also managing the India Environmental Portal for the Government of Ind ...

CURRENT STATUS OF UNCONTROLLED TRANSGENE SPREAD ON THREE CONTINENTS

We would like to discuss the problems of corporate research on decision making along examples and would like to address independent biosafety research and its results.

CUSTOMARY SUSTAINABLE USE: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER ADVANCING AND IMPLEMENTING ARTICLE 10(C) AS A PRIORITY

In decision IX/13, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to provide advice to the Working Group on how Article 10(c) may be further advanced and implemented as a priority. Representatives of indigenous peoples and traditional resource users from Bangladesh, Cameroon, ...

Call of the Earth - Llamado de la Tierra

Call of the Earth : Recommendations from Indigenous peoples' Workshop on an International Regime on ABS

Capacity Building Initiatives for Indigenous and Local Communities on Traditional Knowledge and the Nagoya Protocol

During this side-event, indigenous and local community organizations from IWBN-LAC and IUCN will discuss their initiatives on capacity building for indigenous in the LAC region. They will share information on capacity building on ABS focusing on traditional knowledge and associated genetic resources

Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas - E-learning modules

This event will showcase the series of e-leanring modules for each goal of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas plus climate change and Marine Protected Areas, freely available in languages.

Capacity Development for ABS

This side event will discuss the present UNU-IAS, UNEP and UNDP ABS capacity building proposals across 41 countries and a possible global strategy for ABS capacity building.

Capacity building for Parties on conservation and restoration (Aichi Biodiversity Targets 5, 11 and 15)

This event will provide an update on the activities and the results of capacity building workshops to support Parties in achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 5, 11 and 15 convened by CBD Secretariat together with multiple global and regional partners. It will also provide an opportunity to disc ...

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

Capacity development scorecard

Capacity-building activities at the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology (GenØk) - Centre for Biosafety

* The annual course in "Holistic Foundations for Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms", * Regional biosafety courses, * The GE/GMO Biosafety Forecast Service - the Biosafety Assessment Tool (BAT), * Master of Science Program in Biosafety, * The Gate ...

Capacity-building activities at the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology (GenØk) - Centre for Biosafety

* The annual course in "Holistic Foundations for Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms", * Regional biosafety courses, * The GE/GMO Biosafety Forecast Service - the Biosafety Assessment Tool (BAT), * Master of Science Program in Biosafety, * The Gate ...

Caravans of biodiversity: India's pastoralists, their breeds and products

The pastoralists of India and elsewhere convert biodiversity into a wide range of valuable products. In this side-event India's Pastoralist Alliance will present, debate and discuss the plants, people, products and of course the animals that compose these amazing ecological production systems. ...

Carbon Trading for Poverty Reduction and Biodiversity Conservation

Carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services: exploring co-benefits

Climate change mitigation measures can potentially deliver co-benefits, such as biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services in addition to emissions reductions. Jointly organised by BfN and UNEP-WCMC, this side-event will present planning tools collaboratively developed w ...

Caring for Pollinators – safeguarding agrobiodiversity and wild plant diversity

Following the the “São Paulo Pollinator Declaration” COP 6 the principal role of pollinators has been recognized and considerable work of the Pollinators Initiatives has been done since. Primary focus was on bees (Hymenoptera), while other pollinator groups remain largely ne-glected. In view of ...

Case Reports on Sustainable Economic/Social Activities―Biodiversity and Sound Material-Cycle Society―

Case Reports on the Cyclical Measures (such as Biomass Utilization) Contributing to Biodiversity by External Environmental Experts (NGOs, Researchers, etc.).

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

Caucasus Regional Protected Area Network

Presentation of progress made at a recent ministerial conference focused on implementing the Programme of Work on Protected Areas in the Caucasus Ecoregion Conservation.

Celebrating ordinary people protecting biodiversity

films from around the world 'suits and savages' 'development at gunpoint' plus 3 shorts from italy, uk and nigeria

Celebration of IDB : A Business Perspective

CP group, Thailand’s largest food product manufacturing multinational company will present the company’s implementation that promote and enhance biodiversity conservation. The company has conducted several projects. All business units of the organization do protect forests and provide reforestat ...

Central Asia and Mongolia Bioresources and Biosecurity Network: Building regional Capacity on ABS

Centralised planning: Localised implementation

Peter Bridgewater, chairman of the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee, will provide a narrative considering several of the obstacles to implementing planning; to highlight these obstacles, and suggest possible solutions, the narrative will be interspersed with case studies detailing UK exp ...

Certificates of Origin, Source, Legal Provenance and Compliance

Proposals have been made for a variety of certification systems to act as the basis for an international system of documentation to provide evidence of PIC and MAT relating to access and use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge. This side-event will present a comparative anlaysis of a ...

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 ...

Challenges and Strategies for the Construction and Implementation of Marine Protected Areas National Systems

According to decisions from the Seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 7) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Brazil and all other parties had assumed the Commitment to develop and implement a National Plan for Coastal and Marine Protected Areas, as part of the Wor ...

Challenges and hopes from ecosystem restoration

Challenges and hopes will be presented regarding restoration of the tsunami-damaged paddy fields in Tohoku, Japan; reclamation of oil sand mining areas; and rebuilding of ecosystems after oil spills. Based on its experience particularly in protected areas, Canada will highlight ingredients of su ...

Challenges for the basic, applied and commercial reserach community in a post-Nagoya world

Non-commercial research focused on improving our understanding of natural systems, is crucially important to underpin the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity. This is especially true for the, as yet, largely unexplored marine environment. In relation to Article 8a of the Nagoya Protoc ...

Changing Pace on public policy for biodiversity and ecosystem services: Focusing on innovative and effective policy solutions

The Global Environment Outlook 5 illustrates the increasing pressure on biological diversity worldwide. The predominant threats remain habitat loss and degradation resulting from agriculture and urban development, overexploitation, pollution and invasive alien species. The OECD Environmental Out ...

Charting the Course for Achieving Target 11 by 2020

The fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook has reported the quantitative elements of Target 11 (to protect 17% of terrestrial and 10% of coastal and marine areas) are on track to be achieved at the global level by 2020, with only an additional area of 1.6% needed in each case. However, the other ele ...

China's Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

This event will provide updates on China's progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Information covers the distribution of biodiversity in China, China's national biodiversity conservation strategy and action plan, main actions carried out, biodiversity monitoring, assessment of progres ...

Circumpolar protected areas network - cpan

Cities and Biodiversity.

Presentation of Japanese approach on urban biodiversity conservation through urban policy by the national government and local governments, for example developing city parks, conservation of green spaces and promotion of urban greenery with participation of communities to contribute to discussio ...

Cities, Local Authorities and Biodiversity: Improving cooperation for local implementation of the CBD

ICLEI, the SCBD and participants of the Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity will update delegates on the development of a plan of action to complement decision IX/28, and highlight examples of successul cooperation between national, sub-national and local governments

Citizen Science: The Voice of Youth Connecting Science with Policy

Four young scientists will present innovative solutions and cross-cutting approaches to protect biodiversity. These researchers were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants as the winners of the SustainUS Citizen Science paper competition. Citizen Science is SustainUS's initiative ...

Citizen's proposals for the biosafety protocol negotiation

The Japanese government was criticized as a "hostile host" by the civil society at the last biosafety protocol meeting in Bonn. In spite of the fact that the majority of countries called for strong rules to deal with the risks of GMOs, the Japanese Government systematically blocked almost every ...

Clarifying the impact of the Nagoya Protocol on the top innovation processes related to botanical extracts and natural ingredients

Initial results of a study to determine which innovation processes related to botanical extracts and ingredients fall within the scope of the Nagoya Protocol and assess the potential impact on current business models and their effect on delivering the conservation and livelihood goals of the Pr ...