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AGROFUELS IN BRAZIL: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM CIVIL SOCIETY

WATCHING THE ENVIRONMENT

SEMINAR ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL WARFARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST .

Forest Ecosystem Services Trading: A Market Solution to Conserve Biodiversity and Stabilize Climate

Tropical forests canopies sustain 40% of all life on earth and all subsequent ecosystem services are a function of interactions between this life, the soil and the atmosphere. 1.9-3.0 billion metric tonnes of carbon is released per year from deforestation. Conserving tropical forests offers th ...

Cooperation on transboundary rivers & water bodies

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses – how it works and why CBD Parties should ratify

Participatory Approaches in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

The need to have farmers at the center of agricultural biodiversity conservation along side other stakeholders should be factores in the work programme. Support for farmers movements and civil society organizations, not just the formal institutions in realizing the program of work should be set ...

Arguments for Protection Reports

The launch of a number of publications regarding the benefits of establishing protected areas.

Looking ahead to COP-10 for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas: WHat's working, what's not, and how we can improve it.

COP8 called for regional workshops to strengthen knowledge sharing and capacity for implementing the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. In response, a series of 9 regional workshops involving over 450 protected area practitioners were delivered in 2007-8. It is clear that a more comprehensive ...

Good practice principles and codes of conduct

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Flyways of the world

Flyways are international frameworks for biodiversity conservation. They incorporated ecological networks. Experience and best practice from the four major flyways in the world will be exchanged.

MARINE PROTECTED AREAS AND SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES

This event would highlight the various aspects related to small-scale fisheries and marine protected areas.

“ASEAN Center for Biodiversity: Opportunities to promote CBD implementation in the Southeast Asian Region”

“The ASEAN Center for Biodiversity was recently established by the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to promote biodiversity conservation in the region, which is well known for its diverse and rich tropical biological diversity. The Center reflects the st ...

Beginners Guide to the CBD

Beginners Guide to the CBD

Peatlands, Biodiversity, Biofuel and climate change

Side event to review the results of the global assessment on peatlands biodiversity and climate change as well as review in depth the emerging issues of extensive peatland degradation for cultivation for palm oil and other biofuels

Terminator 2.0 - A New Generation of GURTs

Despite the fact that Parties re-affirmed and strengthened the CBD’s de facto moratorium on GURTs in 2006, public and private sector researchers are expanding and refining research on a new generation of “suicide seed” technologies. Current research is being undertaken for the purpose of biologi ...

Brazilian-German Cooperation on biodiversity research in the Mata Atlântica region of Brasil.

Presentations and discussion of an integrated cooperative approach focussed on research for the protection of biodiversity of the Mata Atlântica region. (4-5 speakers from Brazil and Germany) plus discussion

TEST AY

TEST AY

SACRED SHRINES AND THE MYTH ATTZCHED TO THEM IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE OF CAMEROON

THESE ARE AREA RESERVED FOR TRADITIONAL RITUALS AND IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE TRADITIONAL HEADS DISAPPEAR AND GO TO SUCH PLACES FROM WHERE THEY HELP TO DIRECT THEIR SUCCESSORS;

Conservation of Tropical Rain Forest (Mata Atlântica)

Debate about the risks and opportunities for conservation and sustentable use of biodiversity in tropical rain forest (Mata Atlântica)

IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IN FINLAND -STRATEGIES AND ASSESSMENTS

Good agricultural practices

Good agricultural practices

Island biodiversity

Climate Change And Biodiversity

Kaska Traditional Knowledge Network

The Kaska Dena Nation, in partnership with the ICT Development Group, is developing an integrated web-based information network to manage and share traditional knowledge among various Kaska communities in northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Through this initiative, the Kaska will benefit fr ...

Capacity development scorecard

Protected Areas Learning Network

Governance and Protected Areas

WB & UNDP GEF Buffer Zone Management

Mountain biological diversity

UN Millennium Project

Prior Informed Consent of Indigenous and Local Communities as an Emerging Principle of International Law

CHM TechTrans "The 40 shades of technology transfer"

Sustainably Financing Protected Areas: Lessons from the Vth World Parks Congress

The captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy

This is an annual award ceremony hosted by a coalition of international NGO's to recognise both those who are taking action to prevent the theft of genetic ajnd natural resources and those who are the worst offenders. Would require a large room or hall/ga thering place.l

Update on Transgenic contamination of Mexican Maize - Campesino Responses.

This meeting will report on the current situation of transgenic contamination of mexican native maize varieties and the measures being adopted by indiginous communities to prevent and resist further contamination.

Nanobiotechnology in agriculture and new biosafety risks.

This meeting will examine the application of nanoscale technologies, particularly nanoparticles and nanobiotechnology to agriculture and the environment and highlight the new risks to biodiversity and livelihoods these technologies raise.

Synergies Among Different Instruments and Processes on Access and Benefit Sharing

Operationalising the ecosystem approach: Lessons from integrated natural resource management

Client Organizer: B. Campbell (CIFOR) Main Speaker: Jeff Sayer (WWF), Richard Thomas (ICARDA)

Policy That Works for Biodiversity and People

Ecological networks and conservation corridors

Applying the Ecosystem Approach

Ecology of health or Conservation Medicine

Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity and Tourism

This is one of the five (5) workshops being organised by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) which has an Advisory Status to COP.

Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas

This is one of the five (5) workshops being organised by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) which has an Advisory Status to the COP.

Access to Genetic Resources and FPIC

This is one of the five (5) workshops being organised by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) which has an Advisory Status to the COP.

Capacity building for the Global Taxonomy Initiative : The contribution of the Belgian Development Cooperation

TOURISM AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Preparatory Event to the Dialogue on Tourism, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development to be celebrated during the Universal Forum of Cultures - Barcelona 2004.

Best and Worst Practices in Protected Areas

Implementing Bonn Guidelines on Access and Benefit Sharing

Carbon Trading for Poverty Reduction and Biodiversity Conservation

Using practical experience to create an ABS decision-making guide: news from and IPGRI ABS project