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Screening of the Documentary "Woods were lovely, dark and deep", a film on Biodiversity Conservation with a special focus on Access to Traditional Knowledge & Benefit Sharing

Workshop on Management Tools for Genetic Resources Access and Benefit-sharing Activities

JUSCANZ

Round Table on Sustainable Financing for Marine Protected Area Networks

<br><b>BY INVITATION ONLY</b> <br><br> <b>LOCALE:<br> <br>THE LEGEND HOTEL <br>Putra Place, 100 Jalan Putra <br>Opposite of Putra WTC <br><br></b> This evening will explore options for meeting the marine conservation finance requirements for creating and sustaining MPA networks worldwide with ...

GTI Coordination Mechanism and GEF Implementing Agency meeting

Great Barrier Reef Representative Areas Program - Australia

<br>The side event will outline a major initiative in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia, called the Representative Areas Program (RAP). The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and largest marine protected area. This initiative has produced a new network ...

International Systems of Protected Areas: Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, UNESCO-MAB World Network of Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites

<br><i>Jointly organised by the Secretariats of these three instruments.</i> <br><br> The draft programme of work on protected areas to be examined at Cop-7 (UNEP/CBD/COP/7/15), under Goal 1.1, makes reference to "existing international systems of protected areas", including the Ramsar Conven ...

GEF'S BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM STUDY

Management of Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Development: Towards a Research Agenda

<br>- Agricultural biodiversity can contribute crucial elements that people want from their farming systems and can do so sustainably. Indeed, it will play an essential role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. As COP V noted (Decision V/5) our understanding of agricultural biodiversit ...

Conservation of Biodiversity in Central Zagros Mountain Ecosystems

<br>The Iranian Department of Environment in collaboration with UNDP-GEF is formulating an integrated mechanism to effectively conserve biodiversity resources in Central Zagros Mountain Ecosystems in Western Iran. The project as a demonstration experience will bring together sustainable use of b ...

Markets and Biodiversity: Working Toward Sustainability

This side-event will be held jointly between the OECD and the World Bank Institute

The Global Crop Diversity Trust

<br>The Global Crop Diversity Trust aims to match the long term nature of conservation needs with long term secure and sustainable funding by creating an endowment that will provide a permanent source of funding for crop diversity collections around the world. The endowment will ensure the perpe ...

Assessing Progress Toward 2010: Targets + Indicators

<br>At its sixth meeting, the Conference of the Parties adopted a Strategic Plan, including the target to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national level, as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all lif ...

Protected areas, Ecological Networks and the Wider Landscape: Lessons Learned

<br><b>LOCALE:</b><br>THE LEGEND HOTEL<br>Helang Room, level 9<br>Putra Place, 100 Jalan Putra <br> Opposite of Putra WTC<br><br><b>PROGRAMME</b><br><br><b>Introduction</b><br>Chair Nik Lopoukhine, vice-chair, IUCN, Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)<br><br><b>Words of Welcome</b><br>Hamda ...

Signing of MoC between SCBD, UNDP & World Heritage Centre

<br>The CBD Secretariat, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and UNDP will announce a joint Memorandum of Cooperation for activities to meet the 2010 targets of the CBD Strategic Plan. The signing ceremony will be attended by Executive Secretary of the CBD, the Global Manager of the UNDP/GEF Small ...

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

Learning from Local Success: Equator Prize 2004

<br>The Equator Initiative is a partnership of BrasilConnects, the Government of Canada, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), IUCN - The World Conservation Union, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Televis ...

Socially Responsible Investment in Biotechnology Industry

Biodiversity in the Deep Sea: the Biodiversity of Seamounts and Cold Water Coral Communities

<br>The high seas and deep oceans comprise the largest habitat for life of Earth. The “high seas” cover an estimated 50% of the Earth’s surface, 64% of the oceans’ surface, and include the deep seabed “Area” (as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) and the water column ...

GMO Field Releases and Community Responses

JUSCANZ

Dr. David Suzuki presents "The Sacred Balance - Episode One - Journey Into New Worlds"

<br>David T. Suzuki PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. <br><br> During this event, Dr. Suzuki will present the film “Journey Into New Worlds”. This one-hour film is the first in the series of 4 documentaries prepared by D ...

Terminator, GURTs and their Impact on Small Farmers

<br>This will be a presentation exploring the proposed uses of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies for preventing geneflow and the impacts of these technologies on small farmers and biodiversity.

Customary Law and Sui Generis Protection of Indigenous Knowledge

Payments for Ecosystem Services

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.

Protected Areas Program of Work

<br>In anticipation of the adoption of a strong Programme of Work on Protected Areas, seven governments are stepping forward to take a leadership role, and have entered into formal agreements with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to start implementing key actions that are likely to be inclu ...

Progress in Establishing and Managing Protected Areas in Sarawak, Malaysia

High Seas Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges & Opportunities

Community Capacity Building in Asserting Community Rights to Seeds

Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change

JUSCANZ

GRULAC

Workshop on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Island biodiversity

Climate Change And Biodiversity

Capacity development scorecard

Protected Areas Learning Network

Governance and Protected Areas

WB & UNDP GEF Buffer Zone Management

Mountain biological diversity

UN Millennium Project

CHM TechTrans "The 40 shades of technology transfer"

Sustainably Financing Protected Areas: Lessons from the Vth World Parks Congress

The captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy

This is an annual award ceremony hosted by a coalition of international NGO's to recognise both those who are taking action to prevent the theft of genetic ajnd natural resources and those who are the worst offenders. Would require a large room or hall/ga thering place.l

Update on Transgenic contamination of Mexican Maize - Campesino Responses.

This meeting will report on the current situation of transgenic contamination of mexican native maize varieties and the measures being adopted by indiginous communities to prevent and resist further contamination.

Nanobiotechnology in agriculture and new biosafety risks.

This meeting will examine the application of nanoscale technologies, particularly nanoparticles and nanobiotechnology to agriculture and the environment and highlight the new risks to biodiversity and livelihoods these technologies raise.

Synergies Among Different Instruments and Processes on Access and Benefit Sharing

Operationalising the ecosystem approach: Lessons from integrated natural resource management

Client Organizer: B. Campbell (CIFOR) Main Speaker: Jeff Sayer (WWF), Richard Thomas (ICARDA)

Policy That Works for Biodiversity and People