Résultats de recherche

Global Taxonomy Initiative Post Graduate Course: Toxic Cyanobacteria

4 - 8 July 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005 ECOSOC Substantive Session (including coordination, operational activities, humanitarian affairs, general and conclusion segments)

5 - 27 July 2005, New York, United States of America

U.N. ECOSOC Substantative Session

5 - 27 July 2005, New York, United States of America

Reference: SCBD/STTM/mr/49418 (2005-080)
To: CBD Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) adopted, at its seventh meeting, decision VII/31 on its multi-year programme of work up to 2010. In paragraph 3 of that decision, the COP decided that, at each of its meetings until 2010, it should assess the state of progress, including obstacles, in achievin ...

19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology: "Conservation Biology Capacitation & Practices in a Globalized World"

15 - 19 July 2005, Brasilia, Brazil

The 2005 Children's World Summit for the Environment

26 - 29 July 2005, Toyohashi City, Toyota City, Japan

Third World Youth Congress

30 July - 8 August 2005, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Taller de Identificación de diatomeas continenales / Workshop on identification of Continental Diatoms (Postgraduate Course)

1 - 5 August 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/mr/50101 (2005-092)
To: CBD National Focal Points

In paragraph 5 of decision VII/12 on sustainable use, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to convene a series of technical expert workshops on ecosystem services assessment, financial costs and benefits associated with conservation of biodiversity, and sustainable use ...

EUROBATS: Xth European Bat Research Symposium

20 - 27 August 2005, Galway, Ireland

2nd. International Expert Meeting on a 10-Year Framework of Programmes for Sustainable Consumption and Production

5 - 8 September 2005, San José, Costa Rica

Recommendation 1/5

Mechanisms for implementation: review of the Global Initiative on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

RSPB Chatham House Workshop on Implementation and Effectiveness

Presentation of outcome of workshop held in May 2005 with support from: the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development (France); the Ministry of the Environment, Denmark, Danish Forest and Nature Agency; and BirdLife Nether ...

Restoration of Disturbed Natural Ecosystems

6 - 8 September 2005, Donetsk, Ukraine

Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge

This side event will provide an overview of the Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge initiative, which is a multistakeholder initiative that aims to more effectively engage business in the implementation of the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. A presentation on the o ...

ISSUE BASED MODULES FOR THE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY RELATED CONVENTIONS

The 2010 biodiversity target makes efforts on synergy and harmonization among biodiversity related agreements important and urgent. Since different MEAs often relate to common issues, UNEP is developing issue-based modules on four crosscutting issues: Inland Water, Sustainable Use, Invasive Alie ...

Reference: SCBD/I&O/CHM/DA/50346 (2005-098)
To: CBD National Focal Points CHM Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that members of the Liaison Group of the Biodiversity-Related Conventions have released a joint statement on the contribution of biodiversity to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The statement is entitled: “Biodiversity: Life Insurance for our ...

Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals requires the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

Montreal 12 September 2005 – World leaders and representatives of civil society attending the Millennium Summit in New York this week must take action to conserve and use biological diversity sustainably, and distribute its benefits equitably if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development ...

Bionergy 2005 in Wood Industry

12 - 15 September 2005, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use

13 - 16 September 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Reference: SCBD/EDM/DC/AB/50357 (2005-101)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Thanks to the generous support of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Ministry of Environment of Brazil, and the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development, a second informal “Business and the 2010 Bi ...

Environmental Education and Sustainable Development: "30 Years after Tblisi"

19 - 23 September 2005, Agra, India

Reference: SCBD/OES/HZ/CS/50720 (2005-107)
To: Intergovernmental Organizations, Non-governmental and Indigenous Organizations

I am pleased to inform you that, at the kind invitation of the Government of Brazil, the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8) will be held in Curitiba, Brazil from 20 to 31 March 2006. The meeting will be preceded by the third meeting ...

Tunza International Youth Conference

4 - 10 October 2005, Bangalore, India

Caribbean Regional Meeting to Follow-up on Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

5 - 7 October 2005, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Seminar organized by Switzerland in the frame of the UN-EEC on environmental services and sustainable use of ecosystems

10 - 11 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

International Meeting Platform on Sustainable Urban Development

11 - 13 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/5/ADD1

In-depth Review of the Implementation of the Programme of Work for the Global Taxonomy Initiative: Elements of Planned Activities for the New Programmes of Work

Pacific Regional Meeting to Follow-up on Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

17 - 19 October 2005, Samoa

Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and the South China Sea (AIMS) group Regional Meeting to Follow-up on Implementation of the Mauritius Strategy

26 - 28 October 2005, Seychelles

International Conference on the Circular Economy and Regional Sustainable Development

1 - 4 November 2005, Hangzhu, China

International Workshop on Trends in ICT in Environmental Education & Communication for Sustainable Development

3 - 4 November 2005, Bonn, Germany

First DIVERSITAS International Conference on Biodiversity: Integrating Biodiversity Science for Human Well-Being"

9 - 12 November 2005, Oaxaca, Mexico

Workshop on Spatial and Sustainable Development

14 - 16 November 2005, Rabat, Morocco

Interregional Meeting of Small Island Developing States

15 - 16 November 2005, Rome, Italy

Recommendation XI/13

Sustainable use: further consolidation of the work on the use of terms and on associated instruments

Recommendation XI/2

In-depth review of the implementation of the programme of work for the Global Taxonomy Initiative

Recommendation XI/8

Marine and coastal biological diversity: conservation and sustainable use of deep seabed genetic resources beyond the limits of national jurisdiction

The Conservation Commons: Addressing Challenges of Integrating Biodiversity and Geospatial Data

Environmental degradation and habitat loss continue to accelerate. Solutions may be found to reverse this trend, but only with comprehensive data, information and knowledge on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Data access and knowledge sharing are not simple tasks, however. D ...

Update on the ISSUE BASED MODULES FOR THE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY RELATED CONVENTIONS

The 2010 biodiversity target makes efforts on synergy and harmonization among biodiversity related agreements important and urgent. Since different MEAs often relate to common issues, UNEP is developing issue-based modules on four crosscutting issues: Inland Water, Sustainable Use, Invasive Alie ...

Progress by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) on Streamlining Forest-related Reporting

CPF members will inform participants of the achievements and future plans in streamlining forest-related reporting to international organizations. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how the initiative would help reduce reporting burdens on countries, improve information management ...

BioTrade: An incentive measure for sustainable use

The session will address three topics related to Articles 10 and 11 of the CBD: · Biotrade principles and the Addis Ababa principles · Biotrade and sustainability certification schemes · Biotrade and sustainable use plans

The Role of Biodiversity Offsets in Conservation - an open Roundtable Discussion

Biodiversity offsets are an increasingly used and advocated as a potential mitigation option for residual impacts. They have been defined as “conservation actions intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, so as to ensure no net loss ...

Putting Article 10(c) into Practice: Protecting and Encouraging Customary Use of Biodiversity

A workshop to discuss and explore ways and means to further the implementation of Article 10 (c) of the Convention, which requires Parties to “…protect and encourage customary use of biological resources in accordance with traditional cultural practices that are compatible with conservation and ...

An integrated approach to the valuation and sustainable management of agrobiodiversity: Is it what the Doctor orders?

Following a review of the state of the art of valuation of the components of agrobiodiversity (crops, livestock, trees and aquatic genetic resources), an integrated research agenda is presented for discussion based on the hypotheses that: i) scientific research about agrobiodiversity can be adva ...

Sustainable Use Indicators: Needs and challenges

This Side Event is designed as a public forum to examine and discuss the needs and challenges faced in the development and application of indicators of sustainable use. The experience of the European approach to development of sustainable use indicators will be shared. Attempts at developing su ...

The Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) - progress in implementing the Program of Work and challenges ahead.

Several projects and initiatives in support of the GTI Program of Work will be presented by different stakeholders from the insititutional, national and international level. Presenters will include representatives of individual projects, national GTI focal points, and international organisations.

INFORMAL JOINT MEETING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN SBSTTA-11 AND THE 23 RD MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE OF THE UNFCCC. FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION PROVIDED BY ENVIRONMENT OF CANADA

"The Global Terrestrial Observing System and the Global Land Cover Network: mapping progress towards 2010"

The side event is structured to provide an opportunity for presenting and discussing GTOS and GLCN products and services with respect to CBD requirements within the framework of Target 2010. The Agenda of the Side Event is currently being finalised.

35th Meeting of the Implementation Committee for the Montreal Protocol

7 - 9 December 2005, Dakar, Senegal