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icon UNFCCC COP 18
26 November - 7 December 2012 - Doha, Qatar
The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 8), among other associated meetings, are scheduled to take pla ... more >>

icon COP 11: Achieving Conservation and Sustainable Resource Management in the Marine and Costal Programme of West Africa (PRCM)
Friday 19 October 2012 - 13:15 - 14:45 Room 1.08 - Level 1 - HYDERABAD, INDIA
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 and th ... more >>

icon COP 11: Island Innovations Celebrating Bright Spots, Leadership and Successes in Island Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods
Tuesday, 16 October 2012, Hyderabad, India
Island Bright Spots Exchanging innovations and successes
13:00-17:30. Contact Group VII - Level I - Room 1.03/1.04.
The event will open with a plenary speech by the Executive Secretary of the CBD and a high level representative of an island Party. Innovative facilitation t ... more >>

icon COP 11: Rio Conventions Pavilion Protected Areas Day
Wednesday 10 October 2012 - 11:00am to 8:00pm - Rio Conventions Pavilion, Novotel Hotel, Hyderabad, India
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets, agreed at COP10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan in 2010, lay out a blueprint for stemming biodiversity loss by 2020. Aichi Target 11 specifically identifies the need to expand the number and area of ... more >>

icon COP 11: LifeWeb Review and Alignment with 2011-2020 Biodiversity Strategic Plan: Consultation for Phase II
Tuesday, 9th October 2012 | 13:15 - 14:45 | Side Event Room 1.07 - Level 1, Hyderabad, India

The first phase of the CBD-led LifeWeb Initiative has been highly successful with 78 countries and 17 donors agencies participating and the facilitation of 62 matches totaling close to €200 million Euros in developing countries for the expansion and strengthening of protected area systems.

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icon COP 11: Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
8 - 19 October 2012 - Hyderabad, India
Pursuant to decision X/46, the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) will be held in Hyderabad, India, from 8 to 19 October 2012. COP 11 will include a high-level ministerial segment organized by the host country in consultation with the Secretariat and the Bureau. The high‑le ... more >>

icon WCC 2012: Our Protected Planet: Achieving Aichi biodiversity targets through constituency building, science and action
8 September 2012, 19.00-21.00 PM, Halla B, Jeju, Korea
IUCN World Conservation Congress, then we would like to call your attention to an important event where we take stock of the progress made in area-based approaches to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services and chart a way forward to meet international targets. High level speakers include more >>

icon WCC 2012: IUCN World Conservation Congress
Jeju, Korea
The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest and most important conservation event. Held every four years, it aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development. The 2012 World Conservation Congress will be held from 6 to 15 September 201 ... more >>

icon RAMSAR COP 11: The 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
6-13 July 2012 - Bucharest, Romania
Ramsar Contracting Parties, or member states, will gather to assess the progress of the Convention and the sustainable use of wetlands to date, share knowledge and experience on technical issues, and plan their own and the Secretariat’s work for the next triennium. The slogan for the conference is “ ... more >>

icon RIO+20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
20 - 22 June 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the fut ... more >>

icon RIO+20: Experiences from the Spain-UNEP Partnership for Protected Areas in support of LifeWeb Initiative
20 June 2012, UNEP Pavilion Auditorium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The objective of the side event is to share experiences and perspectives on national (and sub-national) and regional level operational achievements of improving the management of existing protected areas and increasing the network of protected areas by either extending existing protected areas or cr ... more >>

icon RIO+20: Natural Capital Solutions: Protected Areas Meeting Global Environmental Challenges
19 June 2012, Rio Pavilion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
19 June 2012: On its seventh day, the Rio Conventions Pavilion at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) convened for Financing Sustainable Development Day. The event consisted of two sessions on natural capital solutions, namely: protected areas meeting global environmental ... more >>

icon RIO+20: SNUC - Brazil's National System of Conservation Units - Improvements and Perspectives
June 15th 2012, from 2:30 PM to 7:00 PM, at Conference Room 04, CNO Pavillion, Athlete´s Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The National System of Conservation Units (SNUC) is one of the World’s most sophisticated conservation models. Its concept goes beyond merely biodiversity conservation as it allows different uses of land and natural resources. Therefore, SNUC turns out to be an instrument to potentialize actions o ... more >>

icon CBD WGRI 4: Progress and Opportunities for Financing Protected Areas and Related Aichi Targets
11 May 2012 - Room 3 (Level 1) - 13.15 to 14.45 - ICAO building, Montreal, Canada
Implementing the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) and the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Strategic Plan will depend on increased financial investment and cooperation between developed and developing nations. The simple fact is there is not enough money currently being made availabl ... more >>

icon CBD SBSTTA 16: Strengthening financing for Protected Areas and the effective implmentation of national biodiverstiy strategies and action plans
2 May 2012, 18:15 - 19:45 Room 3 (first floor) - ICAO building, Montreal, Canada
LifeWeb Initiative is a partnership platform managed by the CBD Secretariat to strengthen financing for protected areas to conserve biodiversity, secure livelihoods and address climate change, through implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. Welcomed by the 9th COP to the CBD, Lif ... more >>

icon Mexico Roundtable 2
2 December 2011 - Mexico City, Mexico
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico (SEMARNAT), through the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), through the CBD LifeWeb Initiative, will host the Second Financing Roundtable to Strengthe ... more >>

icon Micronesia Roundtable 1
17 October 2011 - Chicago, USA
We are pleased to announce that the CBD LifeWeb Initiative will be supporting a donor roundtable meeting along with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Rare on marine protection strategies, with a particular emphasis on Micronesia. The meeting will be held at MacArthur headquarters ... more >>

icon Liberia Environment and Development Forum
21- 22 September 2011 - Arlington, VA, USA
The Liberia Environmental Sustainability Forum will bring together key stakeholders in the areas of environmental sustainability from Liberia, the USA and other parts of the world. The focus of the Forum is Organizational, Institutional and Technical Capacity Building for the Environmental Protecti ... more >>

icon West Africa Roundtable 1
27 May 2011 - Dakar, Senegal
This vision aims to enable seven West African countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone) to meet by 2020 their commitments for protected areas under the Convention on Biological Diversity, including Aichi Target 11 and related protected area commitmen ... more >>

icon Mexico Roundtable 1
7 October 2010 - Mexico City, Mexico
Based on the results of comprehensive ecological, capacity, and financial gaps analyses, the government of Mexico and CBD LifeWeb co-convened the first meeting of a roundtable to coordinate and strengthen financing for Mexico’s protected areas system. The government of Mexico has invited partners to ... more >>

icon Amazon Vision Roundtable Preparatory Meeting
25 August 2010 - Lima, Peru
Directors of the National Protected Areas Authorities from the Amazon basin and international cooperation partners met in Lima 25 August 2010 to discuss an action plan for implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) in the Amazon biome. This regional effort aims to build o ... more >>

icon Colombia Roundtable 1
16 June 2010 - Bogota, Colombia
The Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, National Parks of Colombia, and the CBD Secretariat's LifeWeb Initiative hosted a national protected areas roundtable on 16 June 2010 in Bogota, Colombia. This roundtable served as a forum to examine protected area financing n ... more >>