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Visionary Biodiversity Laws and Policies & Opportunities for Implementation

Organizer
Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and World Future Council

Date and Time
9 June 2011 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
First Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on ABS (ICNP 1)

Experts from the CISDL Biodiversity Law Programme and the World Future Council will explain to policy-makers how to develop exemplary biodiversity laws based on sustainable development law principles, including justice for future generations. Examples will be based on a CISDL/WFC analysis of some of the world’s best biodiversity laws, focusing on guiding principles, the process through which they were developed, drafting and adoption, and their implementation and related monitoring, reporting and compliance processes. The side-event will also offer training materials developed for decision-makers on the implementation of biodiversity law. Draft Agenda * Welcome by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity * Future Policy Award: Celebrating the World's Best Biodiversity Policies Presentation by Alexandra Wandel, Executive Member, World Future Council * Presentation of Research Results and Training Materials on Best Biodiversity Laws and Policies by Prof. Jorge Cabrera and Frederic Perron-Welch, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law * Panel discussion on how legislators might capitalise on existing best biodiversity policies through domestic legislation and policy making processes