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

INTELECTUAL PROPERTY AND GENETIC RESOURCES

Marine Biodiscovery in Australia - how a government research organisation juggles public interest with commercial reality

The Australian Insitute of Marine Science undertakes marine biodiscovery research on Australia's mega biodiversity. It is a government research organisation supported by taxpayer funding with a clear public good mandate. However, it is also required to commercialise its research outcomes, and ...

Information Session - Swiss Project on a Management Tool for Genetic Resource Access and Benefit Sharing Activities

ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES, BENEFIT SHARING AND THE PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN CHILE

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

Access and Benfit-Sharing: An Instrument for Poverty Alleviation - Proposals for an International Regime

Prior Informed Consent of Indigenous Peoples and Other Local Communities: Considerations for Parties to the CBD and WTO

Brazil: The Thin Line Between Commercial and Non-commercial Perspectives in Scientific Research involving Traditional Knowledge, and Benefit Sharing Practices associated

One of the most controversial issues in Brazil concerning access to traditional knowledge is how to implement more flexible mechanisms when access is made for scientific research, than when there is a commercial perspective. However, non-commercial researches often result in commercial outcomes ...

ABS and the Environment

Traditional food benefits and risks.

THE ROLE OF REGISTRIES AND DATABASES IN THE PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL

COLLECTIVE BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES & IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE 8 J IN MEXICO

TAKU RIVER TLINGIT VISION AND MANAGEMENT DIRECTIONS DOCUMENT: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ALIVE IN LAND PLANNING

Retention and Protection of the indigenous traditional knowledge. A proposal from indigenous communities from Argentina

Benefits and Protected Areas: Mechanisms for Reconciliation

THE CONSERVATION VALUE OF SACRED SITES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE ARTIC: A CASE-STUDY IN NORTHERN RUSSIA

Traditional knowledge in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and a presentation of "Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A framework for assessment

Workshop on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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GRULAC

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

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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

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 ...

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

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