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Climate Change Adaptation Priorities for Tropical Biodiversity, and the Ugandan National Environment Management Authority

How can we design better conservation projects to protect tropical biodiversity in the face of climate change? This event will present the results of a multi-institutional study of climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation planning projects in South America, the Caribbean, Africa, ...

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 ...

Climate Change and Biodiversity; Conservation and Adaptation

Climate change is one of the most important global environmental Issues impacting natural ecosystems and socioeconomic systems. For instance, climate change affects forest ecosystems primarily in three ways: firstly, forest ecosystems through land use change contribute about 20% of the global C0 ...

Climate Change, Biodiversity and Desertification Synergies

Biodiversity, land use and climate are inextricably linked. Because of these linkages, there are many examples at regional, national and international scales where integrated joint work on the synergies between the issues and their Conventions will be more effective than dealing with each separa ...

Climate Resilience The Farmers Way: Handling climate extremes without engineered seeds, strategies and external packages.

The event will offer very concrete examples of how farmer-led experimentation and resilience strategies are helping farmers to build seed security, feed their families, and stay on their lands, despite unpredictable and challenging climate events. If we are to build food security in vulnerable ...

Climate and biodiversity: so-called solutions to climate change could further deplete biological diversity and undermine ecosystem resilience

Biodiversity and ecosystem resilience and integrity are crucial to efforts to stabilise climate, but some proposed solutions to climate change could undermine them still further. Key issues include: biomass for energy, biofuels and biochar, genetically engineered trees and crops, geoengineering ...

Climate change and the do's and don'ts of supporting Indigenous and community initiatives to conserve and restore forests

The event will feature the presentation of a new report on the do's and don'ts of supporting Indigenous and community initiatives to conserve and restore forests. It will discuss how appropriate support to Indigenous territories and community conserved areas (ICCAs) can contribute to sustainable ...

Climate change and the resultant calamities, their impact on Biodiversity: Ensuring inclusion of Biodiversity-dependent communities in all preparedness, adaptation and mitigation measures

The event will look at the impact of depletion of biodiversity as one result of climate change, which is ultimately causing hazards/disaster situations, grossly affecting the Dalits who live in vicarious settlements, and subjected to caste based discrimination in disasters. It also would cover a ...

Climate change, agriculture biodiversity and food security

This event will discuss the linkage between climate change, agriculture biodiversity and food security. The major focus of the discussion will be how climate change has been affecting agriculture biodiversity and hence food security. It will seek answers to some pressing questions such as: Are t ...

Climatosfera 2100: El futuro en nuestras manos

Presentation and gaming session of the Development Education tool: Climatosfera 2100: El futuro en nuestras manos

Close to nature silviculture in Germany: A Chance for Biodiversity in Times of Climate Change?

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.

Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Coastal Area Management

Coastal environment plays a vital role in India’s economy by virtue of the resources, productive habitats and rich biodiversity. India’s coastline stretches about 8000 km and supports almost 30% of its human population. In the past decade, the degradation of the Indian coastline has reached al ...

Coastal and Marine Issues

Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) in collaboration with Dakshin Foundation propose to present findings and lessons from position papers authored by experts on themes like coastal developments, coastal governance, mariculture, ecological concerns with invasive alien species, marine and coa ...

Coastal biodiversity—improvement measure for global environment through restoration of coastal ocean

*In October 2009, the UN agencies etc. (including UNEP) published a report, in which notes that “Out of all the biological carbon (or green carbon) captured in the world, over half (55%) is captured by marine living organisms – not on land – hence it is called blue carbon.”. In CO2 absorption by ...

Cocktail Reception - launch of resources for a workable liability regime

We would like to have an evening reception on the first or second evening of the week (on a night that does not conflict with the Secretariat's plans for a reception - if they will have one) to launch the publication of a number of materials on the issue of liability & redress related to the Bio ...

Cocktail Reception celebrating the benefits of Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries

We plan to have a reception with a number of display tables set up with information and we will serve food and drinks (similar to what we did at COP/MOP-3 in Montreal) so would appreciate it if we could hold this in a public area easily accessible.

Cocktail and Announcement of the Advisory Board Members of the Regional BioTrade Programme

The objective is to offer a cocktail to the high level representatives of the eight Amazon countries, the Andean Community, CBD, donors and the programme's partners to discuss further about how regional BioTrade programmes can contribute to development in the Amazon and announce the advisory boa ...

Codes of Conduct, Best Practices and Standards: Modalities for evaluation and recognition using the examples of the; ABS Management Tool, Culture Collection Standard and the International Barcode of Life

This event will build on the 2013 Tokyo Informal meeting on the implementation of Protocol Articles 19 & 20 and explore possible methodologies for the evaluation and recognition Guidelines, Codes of Conduct and best practices using three practical examples.

Coexistance between the Human Community and the Oriental White Storks

Power point presentation of our work in Toyooka, Japan, by mayor of Toyooka and panel presentation. If possible, "Onigiri" rice ball made from Organic rice will be distributed to participants.

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.

Collaborative Approach to Forest-Related Aichi Targets

Present and discuss on-going and proposed actions to achieve forest-related Aichi Targets, particularly Target 5, Target 7, Target 11 and Target 15.

Collaborative Partnership on Wildlife Conservation

A presentation by the CIC and a discussion with attendees on the potential themes to be included in a future Collaborative Partnership on Wildlife Conservation. For further details on the topic see additional information.

Collections and Collaboration: how can ex situ collections help facilitate research and foster cooperation?

Panel discussion on the role of ex situ collections under the Nagoya Protocol, featuring ex situ collections professionals and ABS regulators, prefaced by short presentations on two EU-Brazil 2013 workshops and the role of collections under the new EU regulation on ABS and Brazilian legislation- ...

Collective Action by Indigenous peoples and local communities - Reporting and Indicators under Aichi Targets including the financial reporting framework

The contribution of collective action and customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use has been recognized in several CBD decisions such as at COP12 decisions on Article 8j and Article 10c, as well as Decision XII/3 on Res ...

College Students UN on Biodiversity Conservation

Students from all over the country would be representing one country each they learn about Biodiversity conservation, access, benefit and sharing.

College Untied Nations event on Biodiversity conservation.

Students will be encouraged to learn about country positions on various issues of biodiversity. College UN offers a platform to the students to get a first hand prospective of UN functioning as well as learning more about access and benefit sharing.

Commitment to the Amazon: ARPA for Life – a Public-Private Partnership to Secure the Future of the World’s Largest Tropical Rainforest

2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Brazil’s Amazon Region Protected Area (ARPA) initiative. The event will highlight the award-winning track record of the ARPA programme for improved biodiversity conservation and protected area management, and the contribution to reduced carbon em ...

Committed to biodiversity - Biodiversity in German International Cooperation (preliminary title)

The German federal government is committed to providing suitable financing to reach the goals of the Strategic Plan 2011 - 2020 of the CBD to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems and to support sustainable development in partner countries. In 2008 German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in 200 ...

Commodity Trade and the BSP: How will it work?

Common pools of genetic resources: A solution for effective and fair ABS?

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has widely been understood as arranging access to genetic resources and benefit sharing in the form of bilateral exchanges between providers and users. This arrangement has often proved to lack efficiency and distributional justice. Based on a reading ...

Communities, climate change and agricultural biodiversity

A discussion meeting focussing on the contribution agricultural biodiversity can make (and is making) to enabling local communities and indigenous peoples to face climate change

Community Action for achieving CBD and MDG Agendas: challenges, gaps and opportunities.

Presentation of 24 h bio-observation marathons and biodiversity lobbying in Germany, Colombia, China, Brazil, USA and Mali. Discussion of outreach approaches, awareness creation and impacts.

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 Based Monitoring and Information Systems and Indicators Work for TK

The side event is co-organized by Tebtebba, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity - Working Group on Indicators, and Forest Peoples Programme (FPP). The side event will share updates on IIFB work on Indicators and CBMIS development to monitor indicators.

Community Capacity Building in Asserting Community Rights to Seeds

Community Certifcates of Origin"

Short description of the event This workshop will discuss the concept and practicability of “Community Certificates of Origin” and present experiences from Peru and other regions on the dvelopment of this concept and its relation to the protection of the collective biocultural heritage of Indige ...

Community Conserved Areas: Prospects and Progress

Areas of biodiversity significance being conserved by communities are spread across the world. Though the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas requires Parties to recognise and support these, there is much that needs to be done in policy and practice to take this forward. The event will high ...

Community Conserved Areas: from "oldest secret" to crucial avenue for the conservation of biodiversity…

This side event, organized by IUCN’s TILCEPA (a joint Theme of the IUCN Commissions WCPA and CEESP) will provide space to discuss Community Conserved Areas and their potential to further the CBD. Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) are “natural sites, resources and species’ habitats conserved in v ...

Community Consultation: Local Voices and Dialogue at CBD COP7

The Equator Initiative is a partnership of UNDP together with BrasilConnects, Canada, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, IDRC, IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, TVE, and the United Nations Foundation.

Community Protocols and the Nagoya Protocol

The side-event will launch a guide on Community Protocols for policy makers and other stakeholders that was developed by UNEP and EDO NSW which was supported by the Government of Spain through the LifeWeb Initiative. The event will also present case studies from five (5) different regions of th ...

Community Protocols for ABS and the International Regime

Community protocols are an important tool for facilitating PIC and equitable benefit-sharing with ILCs. Experience will be presented of: 1) a Quechua community biocultural protocol for Equitable Benefit-Sharing in the Potato Park, Peru - a legal instrument already functioning in practice; 2) a K ...

Community Wellbeing: A flexible approach to measure progress from the ground up?

The event examines the possibility of measuring community wellbeing as a measure of progress integrating contextual concerns (relating to development and resource availabilities) and global objectives.The event will highlight methodological approaches to capture community wellbeing within socio- ...

Community protocols and FPIC: Lessons from practice and challenges ahead

The Nagoya Protocol requires countries to support the development of community protocols for ABS by indigenous and local communities. This event will launch a new IIED publication: Biodiversity and culture: Exploring community protocols, rights and consent, published in association with Natural ...

Community-Based Natural Resources Management in Namibia and the role and potential of equitable access and benefit sharing

The side event will give an overview of Namibia's Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) Programme and how the devolution of legal rights over elements of biodiversity and the provision of technical support has empowered communities to conserve and sustainably utilize their natural ...

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 ...

Compliance with ABS requirements: Wishful thinking or reality? Experiences from the Hoodia Case

Benefit-sharing agreements have been signed between the San, indigenous peoples of southern Africa and holders of traditional knowledge of the plant Hoodia, and different commercial users. A national law on ABS is also now in place in South Africa. Nonetheless many products are on the market tha ...

Computational Bioacoustics: New Tools for Assessing Biological Diversity

The rapid assessment of biological diversity is becoming increasingly vital for determining the effects of habitat loss and climate change on species composition. Current biological diversity assessment is time consuming, labour intensive, very intermittent and requires considerable expertise o ...

Comunidades Locales de la Region Norte-Amazonica y la Convencion de Diversidad Biologica

Presentacion de experiencias de trabajo de las comunidades locales (riberenos y riberenas, extrativistas,pescadores y pescadoras, afrodescendientes , campesinos y campesinas , comunidades con estilos de vida tradicional )de la parte norte de la cuenca amazonica de los paises : Brasil,Colombia,Gu ...