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#2682COP 11
2012-10-09
Effects of sand mining on coastal biodiversity
The event includes presentations from Awaaz Foundation, Bombay Natural History Society and various organizations on the effects of sand mining on biodiversity in various parts of the world. Sand is a necessary component to fuel the construction boom and rapid pace of urbanization in many parts o ...
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#2746COP 11
2012-10-09
Aichi Target 11 - Reshaping the agenda for Marine Protected Areas
During this event, we will provides a review of current MPA coverage (July 2012), showing dramatic increases in recent years. While this gives the impression that the 10% MPA target might be attainable, we revisit such information in the light of the Aichi Target 11 which introduces important n ...
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#2636COP 11
2012-10-10
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 ...
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#2872COP 11
2012-10-10
East Asia coastal wetlands in ecological crisis
Recognizing the crucial need for improving marine habitats protection, the CBD approved at its COP4 the Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Programmes of Work, adopting the ecosystem approach as key for its implementation and recognizing the implication of the water cycle in sediment levels and ecos ...
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#2512COP 11
2012-10-11
Solving the puzzle: Social and cultural dimensions of marine and coastal protected areas
This side event focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of fishing communities in relation to marine and coastal protected areas
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#2679COP 11
2012-10-11
Sustainable Management of Coastal and marine biodiversity
Coastal and marine ecosystem provides considerable ecosystem services. Due to increased anthropogenic pressure and possible adverse impact of climate change conservation and sustainable utilization of these resources are of immense importance. Science based, people centric and process oriented i ...
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#2837COP 11
2012-10-11
Addressing biodiversity concerns in sustainable fisheries
The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in its tenth meeting, requested the Executive Secretary to collaborate with FAO, UNEP, regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs), IUCN-CEM-FEG, and other relevant organizations, processes, and scientific groups, o ...
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#2721COP 11
2012-10-11
IMPACTS OF UNDERWATER NOISE ON MARINE AND COASTAL BIODIVERSITY: GLOBAL COOPERATION FOR A QUIETER OCEAN
This side-event will discuss the impacts of underwater noise on marine and coastal biodiversity and habitats in the view of facilitating international and regional cooperation on addressing this issue within the overall context of marine biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
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#2697COP 11
2012-10-12
Protecting biodiversity in the North-East Atlantic
Description of areas meeting EBSAs criteria in North-East Atlantic region, building upon the Hyeres workshop in response to SBSTTA 16 recommendation, including the roadmap for the future refinement and finalization of Hyeres report, and the current status of the OSPAR MPA network.
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#2745COP 11
2012-10-12
Bioenergy and biodiversity
This event will present the most recent mounting evidence for harms to both terrestrial and marine (algae) ecosystems biodiversity resulting from escalating demands for bioenergy feedstocks. The policies and supports driving these will also be critiqued including assessment of the performance of ...
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#2539COP 11
2012-10-15
Traditional knowledge and area-based management measures in marine and coastal ecosystems
This event will focus on area-based forms of conservation and management measures in marine and coastal ecosystems, highlighting the successes of community-based management. This event will have speakers from different parts of the world.
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#2616COP 11
2012-10-16
A 1st global network of key sites for seabird conservation: their uses for informing EBSAs and other marine conservation initiatives
Co-conveners: BirdLife International, Wild Bird Society of Japan, Bombay Natural History Society, Nairobi Convention Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, The Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea and Areas of Influence Since 2005 BirdLife has been working to c ...
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#2661COP 11
2012-10-17
Sustainable Ocean Initiative High-level Side Event
Sustainable Ocean Initiative High-level Side Event
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#2785COP 11
2012-10-17
Journey through Marine and Coastal Biodiversity – the Youth perspective
This event – street theatre and presentation of the Go4BioDiv Declaration - is designed to take place on the Main Stage of the fair on the HITEX compound during a very prominent time, preferably in the early afternoon and on another date than the Go4BioDiv panel discussion on livelihoods (Side e ...
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#2732COP 11
2012-10-18
Launch of Indo-German Partnership Programme on Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Conservation
This will be an official side eventjointly organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (MoEF) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Government of Germany (BMU) to launch a new Indo-German partnership programme on “Coas ...
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#2649COP 11
2012-10-19
Achieving Conservation and Sustainable Resource Management in the Marine and Coastal Programme of West Africa (PRCM)
The event will showcase progress in meeting the ambitious commitments made by Wet African countries at COP10 to expand their protected area systems and promote benefits to local people. The Nagoya commitments were followed-up with a donor roundtable meeting in 2011 with the Lifeweb Initiative an ...
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#2725COP 11
2012-10-19
Protection Pioneers of the Baltic Sea – joining regional forces in marine biodiversity protection
The best inventions are often first discovered in smaller scale, pilot projects, and test rounds – locally, or regionally, instead of globally. If these are, at the same time, closely connected to Governments, science communities and the commercial sector of several countries, the chances for su ...
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#2783COP 11
2012-10-19
Marine Biodiversity and Ocean governance – The youth perspective
This event is designed to take place in the main conference setting (HICC) during the lunch break (13.15-14.45) of the Conference. Go4BioDiv is an International Youth Forum, aimed at providing a platform to the youth to voice their opinion on the issues related to biodiversity during CBD-COP as ...