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GEF: Fourth Overall Performance Study

The GEF Evaluation Office conducted the fourth independent evaluation of the GEF as an input to its fifth replenishment process. The Director of the Evaluation Office will present the main conclusions and recommendations of the study and will request feedback from the participants.

GEO BON: Assessment of observation capabilities for 2020 Targets

The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) will present its “Assessment of the Adequacy of Existing Observation Capabilities for the CBD 2020 Targets, which was produced at the request of the CBD. The report constitutes the first attempt to assess the adequacy of ...

GEO BON’S PRE-LAUNCH OF BON IN A BOX: LATIN AMERICA – AN ONLINE TOOLKIT FOR BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATIONS

This side event will involve the pre-launch of BON in a Box: Latin America. BON in a Box (Biodiversity Observation Network in a Box) is an online, customizable and continually updated toolkit for biodiversity observations. It serves as technology transfer and capacity building mechanism that wil ...

GEOENGINEERING: CHALLENGES FACING THE CBD

What are the geoengineering technologies in the research and development phase that could have dramatic impacts on biodiversity through technological adjustments to to earth's albedo, large scale manipulation of marine ecosystems, and converstion of "biomass" to industrial uses in a post-carbon ...

GERMAN TECHNICAL COOPERATION ON BEHALF OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT GERMAN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION SUPPORTING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL: EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS LEARNED

Short presentation of the actvities supported within the African Union and China, experiences and lessons learned. Discussion .

GETTING A 100 - ABS EXPERIENCES FROM INDIA

GLISPA (Global Islands Partnership) - An Open Platform for the Island Biodiversity Programme

Awareness raising for GLISPA and its role in island biodiversity.

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

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY OUTLOOK-3: BIODIVERSITY FUTURES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

This side event, jointly organised by DIVERSITAS and UNEP-WCMC, will present the main findings of the Global Biodiversity Outlook-3, and the associated study: "Biodiversity Scenarios: projections of 21st century changes in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services". This assessment is based ...

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY OUTLOOK-3: PROGRESS TOWARDS THE 2010 TARGET, FUTURE PROSPECTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE POST-2010 STRATEGIC PLAN

This side event, will present the main findings of the Global Biodiversity Outlook-3, drawing upon the analysis of CBD Indicators by the authours of the paper recently published in Science (Butchart et al, April 29th). The event will also provide an introduction to a study of projections of 21s ...

GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE USE OF PLANT GENETIC DIVERSITY UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

The Event will provide information on the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing under the ITPGRFA, the implementation of its Benefit-sharing Fund, and how it interfaces with the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing. It will provide updates on the projects supported by the BS ...

GLOBE International: Legislative actions to restore marine biodiversity and ecosystem services

The Global Legislators Organisation, GLOBE International, is a unique network of legislators committed to addressing global environmental challenges. GLOBE parliamentarians work closely with leading scientists, economists and policy specialists to develop progressive and coordinated environmenta ...

GLOBE International: Legislative approaches to recognising the value of biodiversity and natural capital

The Global Legislators Organisation, GLOBE International, is a unique network of legislators committed to addressing global environmental challenges. GLOBE parliamentarians work closely with leading scientists, economists and policy specialists to develop progressive and coordinated environmenta ...

GM Canola findings are spreading in Japan: Citizen's investigative activities

Wild-growing genetically modified (GM) canola (rapeseed) plants have been found at many locations around Japan on numerous occasions, even though GM crops are not grown on a commercial scale in Japan. It was spilled from trucks near the importing harbors along the coast and GM pollution started ...

GM canola findings spreading in Japan and citizen’s investigative activities

Even though geenetically modified (GM) crops are not grown on a commercial scale in Japan, GM rapeseed was spilled from trucks near the importing harbours along the coast and GM pollution started to occur at many locations around Japan. The 6 years results of the citizen's investigative activiti ...

GM free zones reception

GM in our food system - The role of transnational companies

An in depth approximation to the role of TNCs on the organization of the global food system and its implications on agricultural ecosystems and human rights.

GM trees and cartagena protocol

GMO Databases - Access, Scopes and Perspectives

GMO databases - access, scopes and perspectives. Several GMO databases are available on the internet, others are in preparation. Although divergent in scope and thus designed for different audiences, they share a common core of information. In this side event, major publically available and an u ...

GMO Field Releases and Community Responses

GMO contamination cases around the world: a continuing global threat to biosafety

GMOs in the pipeline

Current and planned public research in modern biotechnology. Objectives - progress – challenges.

GOVERNANCE OF PROTECTED AREAS - FROM UNDERSTANDING TO ACTION" - PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

Element 2 of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) on Governance, Participation, Equity and Benefit Sharing was identified in decision X/31 as an issue in need of greater attention. The Executive Secretary , the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and other relevant organizat ...

GOVERNANCE, PARTICIPATION, EQUITY AND BENEFIT SHARING— IMPLEMENTING ELEMENT 2 OF THE CBD PROGRAMME OF WORK ON PROTECTED AREAS

IUCN/TILCEPA and IIED invite indigenous peoples’ representatives, community representatives and CBD Parties representatives to explore key issues concerning the implementation of element 2 of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. This side event will discuss the governance innovations that ...

GRAINS OF WISDOM: FARMER INNOVATIONS, AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Presentation of community based management of agricultural biodiversity from different regions. Special focus on Community Seed Banks, and a launch of a report on Community Seed Banks.

GRASP: the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Project Can the UN Save the Great Apes (and their Biodiverse Habitats)

The great apes are heading for extinction, unless loss of habitat and hunting are stopped. The Kinshasa Declaration on the Great Apes was signed last September by 22 countries and most of the NGOs involved in their conservation. It affirms commitment to a global strategy and sets a timetable for ...

GRENELLE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT : how the french initiative could help to impruve relations between business and biodiversity

Some feed back from the expert groupe on Biodiversity, built for preparing concreat measurments through the "Grenelle de l'Environnement" . How it was important to build position paper. Could this exercise be duplicate in other countries ?

GRULAC

GSPC & GTI: COMBINED WORK TOWARDS A GLOBAL TAXONOMIC FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT THE CONVENTION

Work at RBG Kew, Missouri Botanical Garden and collaborators to create a Working List of Plant Species is being combined with the wider work of Catalogue of Life to create a taxonomic framework for all known species of Plants, Animals, Fungi and Micro-organisms.

GSPC - Achieving Target 1: a World Flora online by 2020

This event will outline the process towards the achievement of a World Flora online by 2020, to support the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and its national implementation. An international project to lead in the development of the Flora will be announced by botanical institutions includ ...

GTI COORDINATION MECHANISM (open to GTI CM members only)

GTI Coordination Mechanism and GEF Implementing Agency meeting

GTI: International Response to Research, Capacity-Building and Networking

<br>Decision II/8 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity identified the lack of taxonomists as a significant impediment to the implementation of the Convention at the national level. The Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) was established by the Conference of th ...

GUIDELINES FOR MAINSTREAMING GENDER INTO THE NBSAPS – CBD HOST, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GLOBAL SENIOR GENDER ADVISER OFFICE IUCN

Objectives: Recognize the dimensions of gender and biodiversity; Implementation of target 3 of the delivery sphere of the CBD Gender Plan of Action Identify, develop/improve and promote gender-biodiversity implementation tools and methodologies as approved in COP Decision IX/24 and to provide to ...

GURTs/Terminator Technology: Option for Biocontainment?

GURTs: Potential implications and impacts on farmers’ rights

Presentation on the potential impact of GURTs to agricultural biodiversity and the rights of farmers to seeds. Emphasis on how terminator technology will not only terminate the diversity of genetic resources, but it will also terminate the rights and lives of farmers and farming communities.

Gap Analysis of Russian Federal Protected Area System

Presentation of 'National Protected Areas of the Russian Federation: Gap Analysis and Perspective Framework'. This event will be organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy, the MAVA Foundation and WWF.

Gathering and Use of Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge for Polar Bear Management and Decision Making in Canada

The proposed side-event will be co-hosted by Environment Canada and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (Canada's National Inuit organization). Broadly, the event will provide an overview of how Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK) is used in management of polar bear in Canada, and ways in which ATK can ...

Gearing up for COP 9: the In-Depth Review on Invasive Species

The event is intended to promote participation by countries and relevant organisations in the in-depth review of invasive species to be presented to COP 9. It will include presentations by the SCBD, GISP, countries and organisations with whom GISP is working. It will highlight some of the policy ...

Gender Mainstreaming in the three Rio Conventions: Promoting synergies for sustainable development

This side event will present gender mainstreaming in the three Rio Conventions, including an analysis of gaps and challenges for better coordination between the three conventions.

Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property: Progress Report on Recent Developments

Genetic Use Restriction Technologies:Threat to Farmers' Efforts on Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Development

Genetic biodiversity in forests, inland waters, and marine environments – targets and indicators for monitoring genetic variation for resilience and future adaptation

This seminar presents key aspects concerning how to assess and monitor diversity at the genetic level. Species and ecosystems depend on biological variation at the gene level for retaining resilience and evolutionary potential. Genetic biodiversity also provides the basis for terrestrial and aqu ...

Genetically Engineered Fish and Biodiversity: Risk Assessment Considerations

Eggs from genetically modified Atlantic salmon have already been transported from Canada to Panama for the purposes of research and development. These same GM salmon eggs could soon be approved for commercial production in Canada and shipped for grow-out in Panama. How far should national govern ...

Genetically Engineered Fish: Biodiversity and Bioconfinement

A Genetically engineered salmon is nearing final approval in the U.S. for human consumption, the first genetically engineered animal ever considered for human consumption. The current proposal is to rear the fish eggs in Canada and grow the fish in Panama - raising many concerns around the impac ...

Genetically Modified Trees: Impacts on Forest Biological Diversity

This expert panel will examine the impacts on forest biological diversity that would result from the commercial release of genetically modified trees.

Geo-Piracy? implications of geo-engineering the planet for traditional knowledge, innovations and practice.

Geo-engineering refers to the intentional large scale manipulation of climate, oceans and soils in order to employ a quick technological fix to climate change. It includes proposals to pollute the upper atmosphere with nanoparticles, grow large patches of plankton in the oceans, bury charcoal in ...

Geoengineering - The Implications for Biodiversity

Geo-engineering refers to the intentional, large-scale manipulation of land, sea and stratosphere by humans to bring about environmental change. In August 2006 a Nobel-prize winning scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Paul Crutzen, called for active research into the use of s ...

Geoengineering - The Implications for Biodiversity and Climate Change

In recent months, it has become increasingly acceptable to talk about geo-engineering as a legitimate response to climate change. Geo-engineering refers to the intentional, large-scale manipulation of the environment by humans to bring about environmental change, particularly to counteract the u ...

Geoengineering - meeting extreme climate fixes with extreme precaution.

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change nears the end of its mammoth fifth assesment cycle, the London Convention grounds its ocean fertilization moratorium on a legal basis, and a spate of new modelling studies point up serious problems, especially with ocean fertilization and Solar Ra ...