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Report of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice on Its Nineteenth Meeting
The linkages between achieving better health and ensuring biodiversity conservation and well-functioning ecosytems are increasingly recognized. The implications of these linkages for various goals related to sustainable development and the consequences for natural resources, economic development ...
A newly launched GEF-funded project, the GEF-Satoyama Project, aims to contribute to the mainstreaming of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The project aims to make contribution to sustainable management of production landscapes and seascapes, so that the society prospers in ...
This side event will involve the pre-launch of BON in a Box: Latin America. BON in a Box (Biodiversity Observation Network in a Box) is an online, customizable and continually updated toolkit for biodiversity observations. It serves as technology transfer and capacity building mechanism that wil ...
SCBD and ICLEI will announce initial results and development for a project, funded by the Japan Biodiversity Fund, to identify best practices and produce guidelines to harmonize implementation of NBSAPs across various levels of government. The presentation will show results with 15 Parties. Mont ...
Event will give an overview on implementation status and progress, current initiatives and projects, involved countries and stakeholders, different obstacles and opportunities to achieve Aichi Target 2 with a special focus on Natural Capital and Ecosystem Accounting
Building on the key messages from the CBD-WHO State of Knowledge review “Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health”, this side event will explore some of the avenues which Parties to the CBD may consider to promote dual health and biodiversity gains within National Biodiversity ...
The ABS-CH team invites you to participate in a hands-on interactive training session on the Access Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House. The ABS Clearing-House (https://absch.cbd.int/) is a platform for exchanging information on access and benefit-sharing established by Article 14 of the Nagoya Pro ...
Join us for a discussion on Biodiversity for Poverty Eradication and Development, including priorities for Parties, the work of the CBD Secretariat, and opportunities to enhance collaboration and partnership with other entities.
Assessing and communicating how countries and programmes contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed development and conservation goals is a challenging task. Building on experiences with a poster generation tool to illustrate how the implementation of NBSAPs contributes to the 2010 ...
A multi-disciplinary panel of experts will discuss key themes and collaborative opportunities at the nexus of biodiversity and human health in line with the findings of SCBD and WHO-led State of Knowledge Review, Connecting Global Priorities Biodiversity and Human Health.
This session will focus on innovative approaches to technical and scientific cooperation. Presentations in this session will include the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (FERI), the Bar Code of Life and an initiative to support cooperation for CBD Monitoring, Reporting and Verification. E ...
UNEP DELC, in collaboration with UNE-WCMC, is developing the second edition of the Regional State of Biodiversity Reports in Africa, Asia-Pacific, West Asia and Latin America and Caribbean, which is a mid-term review of progress towards implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011- ...
Globalization has many benefits but an unintended consequence is the accidental movement of unwanted live species into non-native ecosystems and habitat. Alien species are invading forests in virtually every part of the world and these species represent virtually every animal and plant taxa. Whi ...
Présentation de l’école d’été pour la mise en oeuvre de l’objectif d’aiche 2 sur l’intégration des valeurs de la biodiversité dans la comptabilité nationale qui sera organisée en mai 2016 après la réunion du Sbstta 20 à Montréal pendant trois semaines conjointement entre le CIRAD et l’Université ...
Territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) are gaining increasing recognition for their multiple values and significant contributions to biodiversity conservation and restoration, including in several recent CBD Decisions (e.g. XI/14, XI/24, XI/25, XII/3, ...
It is evident that a variety of approaches are used by countries in order to assess progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. This side event will summarise these approaches, using national examples, and explore the strengths, limitations and considerations for use of each of these approa ...
Achieving Aichi Target 12 requires first assessing the conservation status of species to determine its level of threat. Once the conservation status is known, a number of techniques and tools are available to Parties to manage threats and drivers of species extinctions and ultimately to improve ...
Summary report from the expert meeting on the use of biological control agents against invasive alien species, in particular release into the environment. The event will further exchange views and comments between the experts and delegates to SBSTTA19
The SCBD and the chosen External Partner institution will present the structure and planned activities of the Bio-Bridge Initiative; validate a draft Action Plan, and the criteria for selection and an outline of possible pilot projects. Discussions will focus on the validation of the approach an ...
This side event provides an opportunity to demonstrate the on-line reporting tool, developed as requested in COP decisions VIII/14 and XII/29. The tool will allow Parties to make information available concerning progress towards the Aichi Targets as well as national targets set in line with the ...
This event will present the SAPA (Socioeconomic Assessment of Protected Areas), focusing on recent results from near Kafue National Park (KNP) in Zambia. It will seek to engage stakeholders in a roundtable discussion on the SAPA process and how it can be applied more widely in protected area man ...
The fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook has reported the quantitative elements of Target 11 (to protect 17% of terrestrial and 10% of coastal and marine areas) are on track to be achieved at the global level by 2020, with only an additional area of 1.6% needed in each case. However, the other ele ...
In December 2013, the IPBES Plenary adopted a work programme for the period 2014-2018, and implementation of this work programme is well under way. Drawing on examples of ongoing work and the relationship between this work and the work of SBSTTA, this side event will encourage discussion on the ...
IPBES promotes effective engagement with holders of indigenous and local knowledge in all its four functions. This side event will update on the IPBES process on Indigenous and local knowledge, and discuss how the advances in bottom up approaches for community based monitoring (CBMIS) of Aichi ...
Integrating biodiversity values and considerations into sectoral policies and practices is considered essential for successful implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans. While successful initiatives will be shared through the launch of the ‘Mainstreaming biodiversity ...
The fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4) demonstrated that biodiversity and ecosystem services are continuing to decline despite an increase in efforts. However, there are a number of key gaps in the suite of global indicators, preventing a full story from being told. Such g ...
The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) has been recognized for its potential and actual contributions to biodiversity conservation in decisions of every CBD COP since 2010, and its membership has been involved in a wide variety of activities for resource mobilization, c ...
Report of the Dialogue Workshop on Assessment of Collective Action of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Biodiversity Conservation and Resource Mobilization
This project, Integrative Observation and Assessments of Marine Biodiversity in Asia region (S-9-5) consists of six research teams; 1) regional biodiversity in Asia, 2) kelp forest and seaweed beds, 3) seagrass beds, 4) coral reefs, 5) plankton communities in pelagic water, and 6) deep-sea chemo ...
The contribution of collective action and customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use has been recognized in several CBD decisions such as at COP12 decisions on Article 8j and Article 10c, as well as Decision XII/3 on Res ...
To open up a discussion on options for further action to achieve forest-related Aichi Biodiversity Targets, in a mutually supportive manner, presented in SBSTTA document 19/8.
The event will focus on recent developments related to enhancing synergies between biodiversity-related MEAs from UNEP and SCBD and will discuss future plans to achieving the desired outcomes.
This is the first in a two-part side event that will profile technical and scientific cooperation (TSC) initiatives under the Convention that support Parties in achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Part one explores three broad umbrella initiatives. The second part of the side event will be ...
Further consideration of the implications of the findings of the fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook and related reports, including with respect to mainstreaming of biodiversity across sectors
Key scientific and technical needs related to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and related research
Tools to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments for the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
Indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
Work of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological advice in the light of the 2014-2018 Work Programme of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and relationship with the Subsidiary Body on Implementation
Biodiversity and human health
Climate-related geoengineering
Forest biodiversity: role of international organizations in supporting the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Future Earth - Overview
The UNFCCC Climate Technology Centre and Network as A Model and Tool for Enhancing Technical and Scientific Cooperation in Support of the Implementation of the Convention
DNA Barcoding and the International Barcode of Life Initiative – Status Update (2014-2015)
WWF Living Forests Report
Strategic Issues Related to the Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity
Species Conservation Assessment as An Essential Element of Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 12
The Bern Convention and the Aichi Targets: A European Contribution to Global Biodiversity Goals
Preliminary Report on the Contribution of Aichi Targets to Land‐Based Climate Mitigation