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18 - 20 September 2013, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4 - 10 October 2013, Salamanca, Spain
Report of the Regional Workshop on the Interlinkages between Human Health and Biodiversity for Africa
7 April 2014
Consideration of Issues in Progress: Health and Biodiversity
Emerging Key Messages for the State of Knowledge Review on the Interlinkages between Biodiversity and Human Health
Health and biodiversity
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CRm/83850 (2014-105)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, relevant organizations, scientists, indigenous and local communities, and other relevant stakeholders
Interlinkages Between Biodiversity and Human Health
Human disease and biodiversity loss share common drivers, providing opportunities for cross-sectoral collaboration for co-benefits for health and biodiversity. For example, the overexploitation of wild fauna and flora places pressure on wild populations and threatens the health-supporting ecosys ...
Keynote presentation followed by a multidisciplinary discussion panel on thematic issue areas included in the State of Knowledge Review on biodiversity and health (under COP 12 Agenda item 16). To be carried out jointly with WHO and several core partners who have co-led work for the publication ...
As negotiations for a post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda are on full-swing, advocating an approach to human well-being based on biodiversity conservation and social equity is crucial. This should emerge from the CBD Parties and Observers as a crucial outcome of COP12. Well-being approaches ...
Dialogue Session jointly launched with Bioversity International and FAO to strategically focus on relevance of agrobiodiversity and nutrition to work carried out under the CBD-WHO Joint work programme. Strategically linked to this core thematic area of State of Knowldege Review on Biodiversity a ...
Of the several services that biodiversity provides, a cross-cutting one is the contribution to secure the health of people and life forms in all manifestations – physical, mental and spiritual. While the relevance of biodiversity and related traditional knowledge to mainstream health may be more ...
17 - 20 November 2014, Cairo, Egypt
Montreal/Kolkata, 13 February 2015 – A ground-breaking report on biodiversity and health, launched today at the 14th World Congress on Public Health, in Kolkata, India, shows the significant contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services to better human health.
7 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland
Healthy communities rely on well-functioning ecosystems. They provide clean air, fresh water, medicines and food security. They also limit disease and stabilize the climate. But biodiversity loss is happening at unprecedented rates, impacting human health worldwide, according to a new state of k ...
Montreal, 16 July 2015 – Though there have been rapid advances in human health, the continuing degradation of our planetary systems does not bode well for its future. Today, The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health launched a comprehensive report entitled “Safeguarding hu ...
Executive Summary of the State of Knowledge Review: Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity And Human Health
Biodiversity and Human Health
Montreal, 27 May 2016 – Braulio Dias, the Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity, welcomes a new UNEP report on environment and health which links a healthy environment and healthy ecosystems as the basis for the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
Reference: SCBD/CSU/CG/RH/CRom/85726 (2016-069)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations
Collaborative and Mainstreaming Activities on Biodiversity and Human Health
7 April 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/CRm/86662 (2017-069)
To: CBD National Focal Points in the WHO Europe region
24 - 29 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland
23 - 25 October 2017, Helsinki, Finland
Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/ML/GD/87126 (2018-020)
To: CBD National Focal Points
Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/CE/87292 (2018-035)
To: CBD National Focal Points
7 April 2018, Geneva, Switzerland
11 July 2018, New York, United States of America