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#914102012-11-30
UNEP/CBD/COP/11/35
Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Side Event
#2619COP 11
2012-10-19
Business and Biodiversity in Transition: 'Biodiversity in Good Company' as an example for creating business initiatives
The topic of business and biodiversity is progressing all over the world. Different kinds of platforms, initiatives, organizations, and of course governments are striving to integrate the private sector in the implementation of the CBD goals and targets as well as national strategy plans for bio ...
Side Event
#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 ...
Side Event
#2671COP 11
2012-10-19
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 ...
Side Event
#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 ...
Side Event
#2731COP 11
2012-10-19
Ecosystems, Economy and Employment: A labour approach to biodiversity
The event will present the findings of the report published by Sustainlabour in collaboration with Fundación Biodiversidad on the links between ecosystems and biodiversity, economy and employment. Loss of biodiversity is causing the decline of ecosystem services, whose impact is not only social ...
Side Event
#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 ...
Side Event
#2814COP 11
2012-10-19
Public policy encouraging effective quarry rehabilitation: promoting adoption of good practices for quarry rehabilitation and biodiversity management
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)’s Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) is joining hand with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to present how well-managed quarry (mine) activities could bring value to the environment and community at large ...
Side Event
#2842COP 11
2012-10-19
Ecosystem restoration on cotton fields – bringing environmental and economic interests together
The side event presents the successful project “Cotton Connect”, an initiative engaged in ecosystem restoration without GMO and pesticides offering organic cotton and supporting the Better Cotton Initiative, in cooperation with the world´s leading organic cotton clothing retailer C&A and its Ger ...
Side Event
#2875COP 11
2012-10-19
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 ...