Search criteria
Information Types
-
Side Events (79)
Meetings
-
SBSTTA 14 (79)
Subjects
Aichi Targets
Date
 |
> | KB | > | Results |
Search Results
The search was executed to find both database records and web content.Side Event
#1711SBSTTA 14
2010-05-21
Post-2010 targets and a green development mechanism
This side event will explore the role that a green development mechanism could play in supporting post-2010 goals and targets and in adapting post-2010 indicators to market-based financing for biodiversity.
Side Event
#1957SBSTTA 14
2010-05-20
Competing claims: biodiversity, food, wood, biofuels and climate change
The world is aiming at food, wood and energy security with minimizing climate change and safeguarding biodiversity. However, these issues are mutually related; solving the one should be integrated with solving the other ones. In the side-event, quantitative options for biodiversity are related t ...
Side Event
#1981SBSTTA 14
2010-05-20
Towards standards for national watchlists of sites of biodiversity conservation significance (convened by IUCN with the Philippine Government, the Ramsar Convention, UNESCO, UNEP-WCMC, BirdLife International, Conservation International, NatureKenya, and Plantlife International)
Over the last 30 years numerous practical techniques have been developed for the identification of sites of biodiversity conservation significance. These include global intergovernmental mechanisms, notably Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites), World Heritage sites and Biosphere R ...
Side Event
#1871SBSTTA 14
2010-05-20
Economic tools to incorporate ecosytem services into decision-making
This side event focuses on how and why to value ecosystem services, the scope for innovative financial mechanisms to capture these values and relevance to the CBD. The WBCSD’s Ecosystem Valuation Initiative (EVI) in which IUCN is a key partner is guiding companies to introduce ecosystem valuatio ...
Side Event
#1930SBSTTA 14
2010-05-20
Social Assessment of Protected Areas and its relevance to the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas
The review of the CBD Programme of Work on PAs highlights lack of progress in achieving targets on equity and benefit sharing (goal 2.1) and recommends increased emphasis on assessing and valuing costs and benefits of PAs. Also highlighted is the need to promote a better understanding of the r ...
Side Event
#1952SBSTTA 14
2010-05-19
MAINSTREAMING below-ground BIODIVERSITY IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
The side event will highlight the achievements of the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-ground Biodiversity project. A GEF-funded project that is implemented through UNEP and being executed by CIAT-TSBF and that comes to a close in 2010. The side event will make a case of the impo ...
Side Event
#1956SBSTTA 14
2010-05-19
Analysis of the biodiversity effects of different policy options. A contribution to the TEEB report
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) worked out 9 policy options that could contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of global biodiversity and a few ecosystem goods and services. Policy options are defined here as alternative pathways for policymakers along which to i ...
Side Event
#2030SBSTTA 14
2010-05-19
1.25 MILLION SPECIES - LAUNCH OF THE CATALOGUE OF LIFE 2010 SPECIAL EDITION IN SUPPORT OF THE GTI
The 2010 Special Edition of the Catalogue of Life provides a single species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy covering 1.25 million species, and celebrates the diversity of life on Earth. This meeting will outline major developments funded in the Second Phase of the CoL Programme, including the ...
Side Event
#1813SBSTTA 14
2010-05-19
INFORMAL CONSULTATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE SUPPORT TOOL FOR NATIONAL REPORTING TO THE CBD (THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CONVENTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - CBD, THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY - GBIF)
This side event is jointly organised by the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The objective of the Side Event is to obtain inputs from countries and, in particular, CBD National Focal Points, on the development o ...
Side Event
#1868SBSTTA 14
2010-05-19
Sustaining Marine Ecosystems Through Informed Policies - The role of a Global Reporting and Assessment of the Marine Environment (GRAME).
This information and brainstorm session will explore national and regional opportunities and needs in reporting on marine ecosystem health and outlooks to inform targeted marine policy development. Updates will be provided on the ongoing work under the United Nations to establish a legitimate an ...