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#1000COP 8
2006-03-21
IPPC-CBD COOPERATION
This event will address IPPC-CBD cooperation in joint areas of concern and how to use the IPPC's framework to manage invasive alien species
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#671COP 8
2006-03-21
"Cupuaçu belongs to us" Ethical Boundaries of Registering Patents and Trademarks on biological resources and Traditional Knowledge of the Amazon Rainforest
The event will provide an overview of the Brazilian Campaign against Biopiracy. The main focus will be on the Cupuaçu-case. (The name of this amazonian fruit was trademarked). Information panels will provide details also about other cases of Amazonian biological resources that have been patented ...
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#696COP 8
2006-03-21
Entrepreneurship on managing the biodiversity
Success cases of how companies are taking care of the biodiversity, and creating mechanisms to measure the return on investments (ROI)
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#734COP 8
2006-03-21
Mountains to the Sea
IUCN-The World Conservation Union and WWF have joined forces to update the Biodiversity Economics web-site. The site is devoted to the economics of biodiversity and aims to promote economic approaches to the conservation of nature by providing access to key documents, a calendar of events, and a ...
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#741COP 8
2006-03-21
Acces and Benefit-sharing - Implementation in the Nordic Region: Achieving synergies and complementarities
To inform and discuss current developments on ABS related issues in the Nordic countries.
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#752COP 8
2006-03-21
Report by WIPO on recent progress of ongoing work on IP, genetic resources and traditional knowledge
This side-event will provide a briefing on WIPO work under its own workprogramme on IP, GRs and TK as well as work conducted at the request of COP-7
Side Event
#757COP 8
2006-03-21
Access and Benefit Sharing and Free Prior Informed Consent
Presentation of case studies prepared by Indigenous Peoples commissioned by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB).
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#769COP 8
2006-03-21
Meeting of EU Member States Biodiversity Strategy focal points
Meeting and coktail on invitation. Meeting of technical experts in EU countries, reponsible for the overall management of national biodiversity strategies. The purpose of the meeting is to establish an informal technical network where experts can exchange on how to better implement national biod ...
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#792COP 8
2006-03-21
Progress on the Program of Work on Protected Areas (POW) and Biodiversity Conservation in the Andes Region
Presentation and book signing for this new book which focuses on the animals, people and culture of the Pantanal region of Brazil.
Side Event
#795COP 8
2006-03-21
Livestock Keepers' Rights
Livestock Keepers' Rights
Side Event
#825COP 8
2006-03-21
Roundtable on ABS legislation in the Pacific
The event will involve a discussion on how to increase the political commitment to developing ABS legislation in the Pacific. Participants will include government representatives, NGOs and indigenous peoples and local community organisations from the region.
Side Event
#871COP 8
2006-03-21
Mountains to the Sea
Presentation and discussion on the 'Mountains to the Sea' Tool for the joint implementation of the CBD's Programmes of Work using the Ecosystem Approach.
Side Event
#889COP 8
2006-03-21
Protected Areas and Equity
A workshop reviewing the impacts (positive and negative) or protected areas and then examining mechanisms for enhancing equity in protected area management. Brazilian Extractive Reserves will be highlighted as an example of a form of Protected Area that can benefit local people.
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#893COP 8
2006-03-21
Fingerponds - Biodiversity support in dense populated flood zones in Africa
There is going to be a film about internation research project called Fingerponds - about the possible way of supporting biodiversity in dense populated flood zones in rural areas of Africa. Fingerponds are small shallow ponds tested in flood zones of Lake Victoria (Uganda, Kenya) and the Rufiji ...
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#900COP 8
2006-03-21
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: INTERFACE OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES WITH INDIGENOUS SYSTEMS
The proposed side event to be held at the 8th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will be an opportunity to showcase the work of the Regional Indigenous Peoples' Programme on the interface between government policies and indigenous practice on Natural Resource Man ...
Side Event
#966COP 8
2006-03-22
WORLD WATER DAY - WATER AND BIODIVERSITY: AN ECOSYSTEM PERSPECTIVE FOR THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES PLAN
Brazil is the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve the World Summit on Sustainable Development’s target of developing a national plan for managing its water resources. The National Water Resources Plan (PNRH) addresses the way Brazilian society will face the challenge of ...
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#1003COP 8
2006-03-22
Conserving Europe's Forest biodiversity
Presentation on the implementation of activities under the Framework for Cooperation between the Ministerial Conference on Protection of Forests in Europe and the Pan European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy in the pan European region as a contribution to the Expanded Programme of Wo ...
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#678COP 8
2006-03-22
Conservation of below-ground biodiversity through agro-ecosystem management
Short introduction of the GEF funded and UNEP co- implemented project on Below-Ground Biodiversity; Launch of the book entitled "Soil Biodiversity in Amazonian and other Brazilian Ecosystems; Presentation of some results from the inventory on below-ground biodiversity across seven tropical count ...
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#682COP 8
2006-03-22
The Role of Private Lands Conservation in Implementing the CBD: A Regional Vision for Latin America.
NGOs, the government and private sector will discuss experiences that focus on private lands conservation as an effective tool for biodiversity conservation in Latin America. Experts and practitioners will highlight how these experiences have been used to support the development of a regional vi ...
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#690COP 8
2006-03-22
Non lethal use of cetaceans: sharing biodiversity benefits with all the world and keeping the whales alive.
The cetaceans hunting provides benefits for only a small part of the world, and the whales, being migratory animals, belongs to the whole world. We intend to show that non lethal uses, like whale watching, is a much more legitim form to share biodiversity benefits with all the world. Also we int ...
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#697COP 8
2006-03-22
"BIOTA-Africa: Research for conservation and management of biodiversity in Africa"
BIOTA-Africa presents: www.biota-africa.org "Research for conservation and regeneration of biodiversity in Africa" Speaker 1: Dr. Karen Hahn-Hadjali (University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Speaker 2: Dr. Souleymane Konaté (University of Abobo-Adjamé, Abidjan, Côte d´Ivoire) Speaker 3: Wolfgan ...
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#700COP 8
2006-03-22
Privatization of Nature - Trends and Resistance Privatização da Natureza - Tendências e Resistências
Seminar/Debate about questions regarding the processes of privatization of life, such as biotechnology, and themes related to patents, intelectual property, traditional knowledge and biodiversity Seminário/Debate sobre questões que envolvem processos de privatização da vida, como a biotecnolog ...
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#738COP 8
2006-03-22
GEF Third Overall Performance Study (OPS-3) and Biodiversity Program Study
The meeting will discuss the results of evaluatory work conducted by the GEF Independent Office of Evaluation, including key conclusions of OPS-3, the latest biodiversity program study, and other studies completed during the reporting period. Documents will be provided as Information documents ...
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#742COP 8
2006-03-22
Global Integrated Trends Analysis Network
This will be a lunch meeting, open to all COP8 attendees on a first-come, first-served basis, with a panel introducing and discussing the Global Integrated Trends Analysis Network (GITAN). Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with GITAN participants. Box lunches will be provided.
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#806COP 8
2006-03-22
New frontiers for ABS: use of genetic resources in the deep seabed and Antarctica
The side event will provide an up to date overview of trends in the study and use of genetic resources in the deep seabed and Antarctica. It will also provide an opportunity to discuss how relevant provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity may contribute to ensure that these resources ...
Side Event
#884COP 8
2006-03-22
Financial Mechanisms for Strict Protected Areas
The event has the objective of discussing the existing mechanisms for finanacial sustainability of protected areas. The roundtable will be composed by people that are developing and implementing these mechanisms. Aditionally, some sucessful national and international cases will be presented. The ...
Side Event
#608COP 8
2006-03-22
BioTrade: Incentives for Biodiversity Business
This workshop will present the contribution of the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and its National BioTrade Programmes to implement the CBD through incentives for small and medium biodiversity business. It will present how the BioTrade Initiative and its partners use trade-related incentives measure ...
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#631COP 8
2006-03-22
A Preliminary Analysis of the World-Wide Need for Intellectual Property Assistance with Reference to Particular "hot spots".
The Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors (PIIPA), a non-profit company located in Washington D.C., is conducting a survey of governmental and non governmental organizations, universities, and industry to determine the world-wide need of developing countries for no or low-cost intellect ...
Side Event
#635COP 8
2006-03-22
Coral Reef Management Past, Present and the Future; case studies and lessons learnt
ICRI hosted side event disseminating goals and objectives of ICRI and the importance of coral reef conservation and management
Side Event
#654COP 8
2006-03-22
Access/Benefit Sharing: Does Certification close the Gap? First views of stakeholders
Sharing of business experience concerning access and benefit sharing arrangements and the protection of traditional knowledge
Side Event
#921COP 8
2006-03-22
" From Paradise to the Roof of the World" - Side event on "Mountain biodiversity - partnership for implementing the CBD".
Presentations on the experiences and lessons learned from the creation and development of global mountain ecological networks such as the Carpathians, Alpine, Andean and other mountain ecosystems.
Side Event
#946COP 8
2006-03-22
International Dialogue: Indigenous Perspectives on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
Results of the international gathering held in North Vancouver, from February 25 to March 1 which brought together respected representatives of the world’s indigenous peoples in order to facilitate an open and forward-looking dialogue with international ABS policy-makers on indigenous perspectiv ...
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#948COP 8
2006-03-22
Exchaging experiences: Implementation of National Laws on Access and Benefit Sharing and Protecting Traditional Knowledge.
The objective of this event is to present, compare and discuss the implementation of national legislations on Access and Benefit Sharing and on protecting traditional knowledge in order to exchange experience among countries of Latin America and Caribe.
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#680COP 8
2006-03-22
Globally Important Bird Areas Identified in Brazil: Atlantic Forest IBA Book Launch
Launching of the Atlantic Forest Important Bird Areas Book
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#703COP 8
2006-03-22
"New developments in the International Pollinators Initiative"
A book (and CD) was developed by 20 experts from around the world at a meeting in South Africa in May 2003. The book is designed to provide tools to policymakers and practioners to improve conservation of pollinators and the ecosystem services they render. The book takes the format of the Prog ...
Side Event
#706COP 8
2006-03-22
Islands of the Deep: Global Resource, Global Challenge
The deep oceans are home to tens of thousands of underwater islands some of which are richer in biodiversity than even those above sea level. New scientific findings reveal unique habitats and ecosystems on and around these underwater islands (seamounts), that support a complex web of marine ...
Side Event
#720COP 8
2006-03-22
Community Conserved Areas: Prospects and Progress
Areas of biodiversity significance being conserved by communities are spread across the world. Though the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas requires Parties to recognise and support these, there is much that needs to be done in policy and practice to take this forward. The event will high ...
Side Event
#733COP 8
2006-03-22
Australia's On-line ABS Application and Electronic Verification System
The demonstration will show how on-line applications are processed and how third parties can, at no cost, and at their convenience verify via the World Wide Web, that collected Genetic Resources come with prior informed consent and mutually agreed terms (PIC & MAT)
Side Event
#750COP 8
2006-03-22
Sustainable Use Indicators: Meeting the needs of the CBD
This side event builds on the previous session at the 11th SBSTTA (December 2005) and a meeting of the IUCN Ad Hoc Working Group on Sustainable Use Indicators (January 2006). The purpose of the side event is two-fold: • To promote greater understanding and clarity of the requirements and value ...
Side Event
#751COP 8
2006-03-22
Biodiversity Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
This side event will present tools and guidances produced by the oil and gas industry for integration of biodiversity management in operations.
Side Event
#768COP 8
2006-03-22
Presentation of an upcoming 2006 European Conference on Integrating Biodiversity into Development Cooperation
Presentation of the conference and cocktail. Together with the European Commision and some EU Member States, IUCN is organizing in September 2006, under the umbrella of the C2010, an international conference on Integrating Biodiversity into Development Co-operation - Support the Sustainable Mana ...
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#810COP 8
2006-03-22
Assessing NGO-business liasons for biodiversity: achievements and problems
¨Case studies of Dialogues between NGOs and the private sector. Examples of agricultural commodities (such as ¨the Round Table on Sustainable Soy¨) and fossil fuel; Carbon Trading as mitigation measure for Climate Change. Some of these joint efforts have been strongly criticised for not achiev ...
Side Event
#822COP 8
2006-03-22
IUCN & WCPA's Support to the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. Sustainable financing options for protected areas.
Elaborate upon IUCN/WCPA's proposals to support the implementation of the PoW on PAs and seek feedback on how IUCN can provide the best possible support given specific requests within thew PoW. Launch with the support of Germany's Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschu ...
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#824COP 8
2006-03-22
World Data Base on Protected Areas & the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas
Launch of the 2006 version of the WDPA. Discussion on future needs and opportunities to improve data quality and coverage.
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#830COP 8
2006-03-22
national strategies for the implementation of the CBD PRogramme for protected areas
The 7th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-7) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a Programme of Work on Protected Areas. It emphasizes that the goals it has included allow a framework within which national and regional targets could be developed according to natio ...
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#869COP 8
2006-03-22
Experiences in implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation through botanic gardens in Latin America
A series of speakers will outline experiences from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico in implementing projects through botanic gardens in support of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Key areas will be community native plant conservation projects, environmental education initiatives, staff t ...
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#895COP 8
2006-03-22
Climate Change, Biodiversity and Desertification Synergies
Biodiversity, land use and climate are inextricably linked. Because of these linkages, there are many examples at regional, national and international scales where integrated joint work on the synergies between the issues and their Conventions will be more effective than dealing with each separa ...
Side Event
#928COP 8
2006-03-23
Wetlands, Water and Livelihoods
The event will enhance awareness on poverty-environment issues in wetlands and highlight the results of the recent international workshop held in South Africa on Wetlands, Water and Livelihoods; provide information on the WI Wetlands and Poverty Reduction Programme - including invitation for pa ...
Side Event
#979COP 8
2006-03-23
Biodiversity in Sustainability Reporting
Biodiversity remains one of the most challenging areas for reporting as many companies still have a limited understanding of their relationship to and impact on biodiversity. Many companies have pointed to the need for general background material that helps companies to understand the link betwe ...
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#673COP 8
2006-03-23
Making Biodiversity Law Work
Two days of programming on the principles of compliance and enforcement as related to biodiversity issues, including implementation as compliance and enforcement indicators.