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Founded in 1997, as the first private TV channel in Brazil totally dedicated to education, FUTURA is committed to providing quality information and addressing the most challenging subjects in the agenda of the Brazilian society. Thus, a large portion of FUTURA’s programs aim at encouraging sust ...
Presentation and gaming session of the Development Education tool: Climatosfera 2100: El futuro en nuestras manos
Every day, organizations for youth and children around the world engage and take concrete action for biodiversity. The meeting of the Conference of the Parties is a unique occasion for them to demonstrate they are taking their planet and their future seriously. This event provides opportunity to ...
This side event is dedicated to biodiversity protection specifically on the local level. In the project "European Capitals of Biodiversity", over 300 local authorities in France, Hungary, Germany, Spain and Slovakia participated in national competitions on local biodiversity protection. During t ...
Designed to be a platform to think the future, the Museum of Tomorrow will be inaugurated in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The narrative of the Museum explores two ethical axes: sustainability and solidarity. In the area of sustainability, it aims to discuss “How will we live?” And in the ...
Presentation and Discussion on Assessment and indicators for biodiversity (Japan Biodiversity Outlook).
The International Youth Forum Go4BioDiv, held in parallel to COP10, brings together young people from the most precious natural sites our planet has to offer. The participants come from more than twenty natural World Heritage sites in i.e. Mexico, Peru, Congo, Cameroon, Mauritania, Vietnam, Chin ...
Small islands are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, protected areas, economies, tourism and the communities that live there. While global attention has been brought to bear on this issue, there remains a critical communications challenge: how to effectively en ...
Youth from fourteen countries have drafted an International Youth Accord on Biodiversity. This side event will showcase the Accord, and highlight youth biodiversity projects from around the world with various speakers and multimedia presentations. It will also include a framework for youth rep ...
In accordance with its“Hyogo Biodiversity Strategy” the Prefectural Government is undertaking, together with people of Hyogo, NPOs and private companies, significant efforts, for example, in order to improve and revitalize the ecosystem of“Satoyama”, and use the outcomes and experiences of this ...
Symposium will be held on MAB activities in Japan and the world linked with ESD to highlight the relationship with “sustainable use of ecosystem services”, in collaboration with the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japanese Ministry of the En ...
A side event to present The Green Wave its achievements and various activities and chart its future.
This event intends to introduce unique and ambitious higher education program, Nagoya University Global Environmental Leaders Program (NUGELP). NUGELP focuses simultaneously three crucial areas such as biodiversity, climate change, and water and waste management. This combination is rare as one ...
The BirdLife International Partnership will present, for the first time, a global inventory of over 10,000 terrestrial Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and their protection status. It will also highlight key aspects of its site conservation approach that involves working with local communities across ...
25 - 26 October 2010, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
23 - 24 October 2010, Nagoya, Japan
A side event to launch the youth quick guide to biodiversity and the biodiversity challenge badge (major learning materials to be disseminated through The Green wave and the WAGGGS network).
At COP10 Pavan Sukhdev, Study Leader for the study into The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity will present final key findings and recommendations from across the TEEB reports. The study is global and reach and brings together and communicates the best available scientific and economic ana ...
“Tangible Earth” is the world’s first interactive globe, invented by Prof. Shinichi TAKEMURA. It is a medium which makes it possible to visualize in real-time various aspects of our planet (such as cloud movements, cyclones, global warming, the global migration of birds and whales) as well as so ...
London, Montreal, Rome, 6 October 2010 – How do young people see life on Earth, the richness of ecosystems, the reasons underlying biodiversity loss and the actions required to stop this loss? Over 3,000 children and young people between 6 and 20 years of age from over 60 countries submitted art ...
Montreal, 30 September 2010. The winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity were announced on 21 September at the United Nations in New York. Three winners each received $100,000 for their work in support of safeguarding biodiversity.
Reference: SCBD/OES/OMG/NP/73394 (2010-170)
To: CBD and CPB National Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; CHM Focal Points; international organizations; non-governmental organizations; and relevant stakeholders
As we approach the high-level meeting on biodiversity at the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September, I would like to introduce you to the MEMO Project. MEMO, which stands for Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory, is a charitable organization based in the United Kingdom (UK).
English FrenchMontreal, 7 September 2010 – The representatives of youth from 66 countries gathered in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, to build solidarity and discuss the importance of biodiversity, vital for survival of the next generation.
Montreal, 31 August 2010 – With the support of the Global Environment Facility, the messages of the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) were brought to an audience estimated at over 600,000 spectators watching live matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on giant screens in South Africa.
Montreal, 17 August 2010 – Starting on 25 August, all-news television broadcaster CNN International will turn its attention to biodiversity, beginning with the broadcast of a special edition of its monthly environmental programme Earth’s Frontiers, focusing on biodiversity.
Montreal, 9 August 2010. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year commencing 12 August 2010 the International Year of Youth. The theme of the Year is “Dialogue and Mutual Understanding”. The observance was proposed by the President of the Republic of Tunisia, H.E. Zine El Abidine ...
Montreal, 23 July 2010 – More than 3,000 students from over 200 schools across the United Kingdom were given a lesson on the crucial importance of biodiversity to human well-being and to our future at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow. Speaking to students at the opening of the Airshow’ ...
Reference: SCBD/OES/OMG/DA/fd/ 72603 (2010-136)
To: CBD National Focal Points and International Organizations
Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) is instrumental in helping to clarify the complexity of the issues surrounding biodiversity. Reflecting this importance, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), as part of its contribution to the International Year of Biodiv ...
English1 - 6 July 2010, Geel, Belgium
Montreal, 30 June 2010 – At their annual summit, held on 25-26 June in Muskoka, Canada, leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) have again emphasized the critical importance of biodiversity to human well-being, sustainable development and poverty eradication, and highlighted the serious threat posed ...
Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/72093 (2010-127)
To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points
Subsequent to the notification issued on 20 May 2010, the purpose of this notification is to inform you that deadline for submission of nominations for the Midori Prize for Biodiversity has been extended to 12 July 2010.
English Spanish French7 - 8 June 2010, Montreal, Canada
Montreal, 5 June 2010. On the International Day for Biodiversity, children and youth in countries all around the world took part in a global wave of action: The Green Wave. This year the International Day brought attention to the importance of biodiversity to development and poverty alleviation.
Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/tk/71866 (2010-107)
To: CBD National Focal Points and international organizations
As you may be aware, decision VII/24 of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), requested the Executive Secretary to convene an informal advisory committee on communication, education and public awareness (CEPA) to develop the programme of work for CE ...
EnglishMontreal, 26 May 2010. Twenty-one of the world’s major airlines have joined forces with the Convention on Biological Diversity in raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis for the International Year of Biodiversity.
United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020
Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/72093 (2010-105)
To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points
The purpose of this notification is to draw your attention to the press release about the “The Midori Prize for Biodiversity” which was established by the AEON Environmental Foundation in commemoration of year 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the year of the tenth meeting ...
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