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Where to get biodiversity data to produce your national reports, strategies and action plans.

GBIF will make live demonstrations of its data portal and tools to help CBD parties in the preparation of their national reports and NBSAPs. We will also show some practical applications that can be downloaded by the CBD parties.

WETLANDS, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WIN-WIN RESPONSE OPTIONS

The main impact of climate change will be on water – and hence wetlands and the biodiversity they sustain. Water, and hence wetlands, is essential to human well-being. These ecosystems are becoming increasingly more vulnerable and their role in climate change undervalued. The side event will f ...

Using the TEMATEA Issue-Based Modules at national level

The national experiences with the TEMATEA Modules in pilot countries such as Cuba, Norway and Seychelles will be highlighted. This hands-on experience from national experts will facilitate the use of TEMATEA by other experts so that they will also be able to obtain optimal benefit of this tool.

UNU Media Studio - "Voices of the Chichinautzin" Documentary, AND Award winning "Saving the Ayuquila River Documentary"

This video documentary and e-case study was developed by the UNU Media Studio in collaboration with the University of Guadalajara, Mexico and illustrates how scientists can work with local communities to bring about positive environmental changes. It is a detailed account of the struggle faced ...

UNESCO-Biosphere Reserves: Ecological, economic, cultural and social benefits and their linkages in the World Network: "Doing together - learning together: Kruger to Canyons Biosphere region (South Africa) and Rhön Biosphere reserve (Germany)"

This side event demonstrates why UNESCO-biosphere reserves are innovative instruments for linking conservation and sustainable development. Presently 531 biosphere reserves (BR) in 105 countries are working in this context to make a difference. The sharing of their experience and the co-operatio ...

UNDP/GEF Support to Implementation of CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

The CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA), adopted at COP-7, is the internationally agreed path towards sustainable in-situ conservation, striving to reach a global network of representative terrestrial and marine protected areas by 2010 and 2012 correspondingly. UNDP/GEF/CBD project ...

Trans-boundary Conservation and Conflict Resolution

The aim of this event is to find ways of implementing the CBDs program of work that pertains to transboundary conservation and the development of "peace parks" or other measures that use environmental cooperation as a means of conflict resolution. The event will build on the publication of a new ...

Training Session on Business and Biodiversity

Business, Biodiversity and Challenges

Traditional Knowledge and the International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing

Panel Discussion on traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and Access and Benefit Sharing

Tourism and Protected Areas

Acto will be presenting and discussing its Protected Areas Programm as well as its Tourism Programm, specially its Initiative Destination Amazonia Year 2009

Tools and resources for managing biological prospecting

UNU-IAS will present the tools it is developing on ABS. These include a pocket guide and a bioprospecting database.

The significance of the potato in relation to the CBD or, "mucho mas que un alimento..."

The potato; biological resource industrial feed stock, part of the Andean culture....Are these factors a help or a hidrance in the task of combating hunger and poverty? One of the themes of the CBD COP9 in Bonn is biological diversity for food and agriculture ( agricultural biodiversity work pr ...

The markets of biodiversity

Presentation of the research carried out at the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) on the market approach to biodiversity conservation, genetic resources and local knowledge.

The future of biodiversity, linking figures to landscapes and global to local scales

The future of biodiversity according to GBO2 and GEO4, the main causes, and policy options to achieve the 2010-target. The results will be visualised from figures into maps and into real landscapes, from global to local. A Powerpoint presentation combined with Googel Earth visualisation

The contribution of zoos to biodiversity conservation: the link between in-situ and ex-situ

Introduction to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) and their partners (like IUCN) in the worldwide "Amphibian Ark" campaign. Concrete case studies will be presented from Germany and Vietnam and information provided on the European zoos involvement in education and ex-situ conserv ...

The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee: State of Play, Future Prospects , Linkages with the CBD

The UN List of Protected Areas: Launch of a New System for National Authorities to Update, Edit and Add Information

This session will provide an opportunity for participants to view the newly redeveloped UN List of protected areas system (part of the World Database on Protected Areas, a joint project of UNEP and IUCN) built specifically for national authorities to provide data into the global system by reveal ...

The Swedish Taxonomy Initiative - documenting and describing all multicellular organisms in Sweden

Learn about the challenge to find and describe unknown species and producing one of the largest encyclopedias of the world! The event will provide a presentation of a unique project with the aim to document all living organisms found in Sweden and to present them in the Encyclopedia of Swedish ...

The Strategic HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

The side event will present the strategic HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan adopted last year by the nine Baltic Sea coastal countries and the European Community. It is an ambitious overarching programme of actions to drastically reduce pollution to the Baltic Sea and restore its good ecological sta ...

The Steppe and the Saiga: large-scale landscape scale steppe protection and species conservation – Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative

Steppes are the least protected ecosystem worldwide and under great threat. Kazakhstan once held large part of these natural grasslands. The Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative (ADCI) is a large-scale programme of the Government of Kazakhstan in partnership with the Association for Conservation ...

The Social and Ecological Impacts of Genetically Engineered Trees

An expert panel will address the impacts on forests and forest-dependent communities that would result from the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment. The panel will also look at the impacts of using GE trees as a feedstock for "second generation" cellulosic ethanol.

The Potential of the ARPA program in reducing deforestation and associated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon

An event in which the WWF and IPAM will present the conclusion of a study related to the potential of the ARPA Program in reducing deforestation and associated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon. The study includes an evaluation of the historical effect of ARPA Program in the management o ...

The MPA Network in West Africa: The Subregional Programme on Marine and Coastal areas Management (PRCM) delivering on CBD Commitments

Enable the countries of the PRCM region to use the opportunity of the COP 9 to showcase outstanding achievements towards the 2010/2012 targets of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA).

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - Implementing Farmers' Rights in Practice

At the side event, the organizers will present a workshop module on Farmers' Rights and the results of a sub-project collecting Farmers' Rights success stories. The side event will also mark the launching of the new Farmers’ Rights Legislation & Policy Database.

The ITT Initiative: keeping the oil in the ground

Present the proposal to keep close to one billion barrels of heavy crude in ground. The oil reserves known as Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini (ITT) would remain underground in exchange for intenational compensation of at least 50% of Ecuador`s forgone revenue if extraction had taken place.

The Green Initiative Experience - Enhancing Biodiversity through Carbon Neutral Projects

Based on GHG inventory commissioned by private companies seeking the carbon free status, The Green Initiative developed a model, which foresees that the yearly GHG emissions will be offset through riparian forest restoration. Thus, these forests planted by TGI will, in a 30-year period, remove f ...

The European pulp and paper industry is committed to enhance biodiversity

During the side-event, the European Forest Institute will present the results of an assessment of the impacts of biodiversity protection on the availability of wood for the industry. Protecting biological and landscape diversity has resulted in various protection regimes in Europe. At the same t ...

The Ecosystem Approach

Information dissemination/knowledge sharing on Ecosystem Approach

The Darwin Initiative

A presentation on the UK's Darwin Initiative which assists countries that are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through the funding of collaborative projects which draw on UK biodiversity expertise. The event will expla ...

The Co-Operation On Health And Biodiversity (COHAB) Initiative

The COHAB Initiative Co-Operation On Health And Biodiversity is an international programme of work on human well-being and sustainable development. The side event is presented in cooperation with the Government of Ireland and the SCBD.

The Clearing-House Mechanism: an update on recent developments and cooperation

The purpose of this side-event (jointly organized by SCBD, Belgium, Germany, Morroco, and the European Community) is to highlight recent developments and cooperation on the Clearing-House Mechanism. Several Parties will share their experience and a new version of the European CHM Portal Toolkit ...

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program

This workshop is intended to bring experts experienced in biodiversity offset design together with CBD government delegates to explore the potential of biodiversity offsets. Specific topics will include: 1) Reviewing emerging best practice on biodiversity offsets internationally; 2) Reviewing p ...

The Bern Convention: A tool for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in Europe.

To inform about the Bern Convention: its aims, main issues covered and key succeses, as an important framework for the implementation of international biodiversity obligations in Europe.

The Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil – world records of forest biodiversity but highly endangered hotspot – state of the art and what is to be done…

Presentation and discussion about the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil with government and social society representatives • Presentation of biodiversity features of the Atlantic Rain Forest • History and state-of-the art of deforestation and other threatens • Tendencies of natural regeneration an ...

The Alpine Ecological Network- a Contribution to the Global Network of Protected Areas

The Parties to the Alpine Convention started to set up an ecological network in the Alps approximately 10 years ago. Today this initiative is - together with the issues of climate change and the loss of biodiversity - embedded in a far reaching and overarching context and makes a significant co ...

The ASEAN Biodiversity: Its Significance in Maintaining Global Ecological Sustainability

Lecture forum on the significant role of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Region in maintaining global ecological sustainability. Despite occupying only three percent of the earth’s surface, 20 percent of all known species live deep in the ASEAN region’s mountains, jungles, ...

The 2010 Target: Experiences From Singapore

Singapore will share her experiences particularly on urban biodiversity conservation and the ABS regime in Singapore.

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership - Working together to track global biodiversity trends

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership (2010BIP) brings together over forty UN agencies, IGOs, NGOs, scientific institutions, Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and representatives of national governments to deliver and report on indicators measuring progress towards achieving the CBD 2 ...

Teufelskralle goes public

A plant from the arid regions in southern Africa begins its journey through Germany. The African Devil's Claw is at the centre of a travelling exhibition that makes "sustainability" and "equitable benefit sharing" accessible through the use of interactive elements. The "Botanischer Verein zu H ...

Technology transfer activities under the UNFCCC

The development and transfer of technologies play an important role under the UNFCCC. Lessons learned from the technology transfer activities undertaken sofar under the UNFCCC will be discussed, in particular in the areas of technology needs assessments, innovative financing and technologies for ...

TWO PRACTICAL TOOLS TO HELP IN THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ABS: A FOLDER AND AN ELECTRONIC PRESENTATION TEMPLATE

This event will launch two new tools developed by the Quebec Government, and its collaborators, to help countries to implement policies on ABS at national level, especially in developing countries. These attractive colour tools, in English and French, are intended to be used by ABS focal points ...

Systematic Conservation Planning for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity

Conservation planning is the process of locating, configuring, implementing and maintaining areas that are managed to promote the conservation of biodiversity and other natural values. Many systematic methods for planning protected areas and other conservation actions are being proposed and app ...

Sustainable forest management in Europe.

The side event will demonstrate the achievements of SFM in Europe in support to biodiversity conservation. Regional approach to support implementation of the Expanded WP on Forest Biodiversity.

Sustainable Financing of the Taï National Park (PNT), Ivory Coast

After fifteen years of joint and successful conservation efforts by the “Office Ivoiren des Parcs et Réserves (OIPR)” and its partners (KfW, GTZ, WWF, WCF), securing sustainable financing of the Park management has become a major challenge for the “Fondation Ivoirienne des Parcs et Réserves (FPR ...

Space supporting the RIO (UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC), World Heritage and RAMSAR Conventions

Earth Observation (EO) from space provides the means to monitor globally trends in indicators of biodiversity over space and time. This side event highlights the overarching role of EO satellites providing critical information on benchmarks and indicators for the implementation of several United ...

Small-scale fishing communities: Perspectives on marine conservation and management

Studies undertaken in several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, on marine protectected areas and small-scale fishing communities, will be presented at this side event.

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: THE IMPLICATIONS OF "EXTREME GENETIC ENGINEERING" FOR BIODIVERSITY AND THE CBD'S PROGRAMME OF WORK.

Enabled by the convergence of biology, computing and engineering, synthetic biology refers to new technologies that permit the design and construction of any specified DNA sequence, allowing the chemical synthesis of entire genes or genomes and synthetic life-forms. Working virus genomes have a ...

SWISS POLICY AND COMING LEGISLATION ON BIOFUELS BASED ON FULL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

SWISS EFFORTS AND INITIATIVES TO DEVELOPE TOOLS TO FACILTATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BONN GUIDELINES AND ABS AGREEMENTS

SEBI 2010: a pan-European set of biodiversity indicators to measure progress towards 2010

This event will present the regional set of streamlined biodiversity indicators to measure progress towards the 2010 target, as well as the future plans for assessments based on the set. The event will consist of 2-3 short presentations, followed by an open discussion. Input from SEBI 2010 par ...