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Lessons Learned and Conditions for Success of Voluntary Regional Commitments: Experiences from the Micronesian Challenge, Caribbean and Coral Triangle

This event will feature a discussion among governments and support organisations of the potential of multi-country voluntary commitments to dramatically catalyze protected area conservation on a national and regional scale. Progress being made by the Micronesian Challenge will share the experien ...

UNDP/GEF/CBD project Supporting Country Action for CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

The side even will present the above mentioned project, running since July 2007. The project is providing grants to countries, focusing on SIDS and LDCs, to support the implementation of critical PoWPA activities. The presentation will describe the grant making / review process, eligibility requ ...

ECLOGICAL, ECONIMIC, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF PROTECTED AREAS

Although protected areas provide a vast amount of goods and services to the people, specially to the poor; they are greatly undervalued by markets, politicians, and by the general public. As a result, they are extremely under-funded, overlooked and face constant threats. During this side event, ...

Global Islands Partnership (GLISPA) - status and perspectives

Review of progress on the implementation of the Islands Biodiversity Programme of Work through GLISPA, and support for new and additional commitments

ARGUMENTS FOR PROTECTION AND THE BENEFITS ASSESSMENT TOOL

The Arguments for protection series aims to identify, and where possible quantify, a wide range of the benefits derived from protected areas in order to increase support for protection and strengthen management strategies. This side event presents the series so far and introduces a new tool for ...

National Ingredients for Successful Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

This side event will feature a discussion about factors that have proven crucial for enabling implementation of the PoW in a number of countries, including national multi-stakeholder coalitions, action grants, multi-country voluntary commitments, and regional catalyzing workshops. It will also p ...

Protected Areas Values: livelihoods, poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goals

Although protected areas provide a vast amount of goods and services to the people, specially to the poor; they are greatly undervalued by markets, politicians, and the by general public. As a result, they are extremely under-funded, overlooked and face constant threats. Based on recommendations ...

In situ and remote-sensing activities for terrestrial and marine Protected Areas: the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

The side event will illustrate different views on FAO’s work on and support for the establishment, management and monitoring of both terrestrial and marine protected areas. Thematic issues to be illustrated and discussed will cover in situ activities highlighting local actions, with a particular ...

El “Territorio Indígena de Conservación” como modelo de gobernanza de áreas protegidas

El Sistema Internacional de Categorías de Areas Protegidas hace poca referencia respecto a los territorios indígenas que constituyen áreas protegidas, por lo que no existe un adecuado reconocimiento de los aspectos de la gobernanza indígena en estos territorios. La UICN conjuntamente con el For ...

ECOREGIONAL BASED CONSERVATION IN CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN AND ALPS ECOREGIONS AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANAGEMENT IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS. Areas.

Ecoregional based Conservation is an approach promoted by WWF worldwide to identified Priority areas and strategy for biodiversity. In the last years, WWF Italy and several partners, has developed two processes for definition of Biodiversity Vision in Central Mediterranean and Alps Ecoregions. ...

MPAS: Perspectives from small-scale fishing communities

This side event will present case studies about MPA implementation in several countries, from a small-scale fisheries perspective. A film, Right to Survive, on turtle conservation and fisheries livelihoods will also be screened. The event will highlight ways in which conservation initiatives can ...

Strengthening National Capacity to Implement the Programme of Work: Activities since WGPA1 and a potential plan of action through to COP-10.

WGPA1 called for regional workshops to strengthen knowledge sharing and capacity for implementing the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. In response, a series of 9 regional workshops involving over 450 protected area practitioners were delivered in 2008. It is clear that a more comprehensive ...

ASSESSING IMPLEMENTATION: TRIAL OF A ASSESSING IMPLEMENTATION: TRIAL OF A REPORT CARD

Presentation of the results of a trial run of a report card developed by WWF’s Protected Areas for a Living Planet programme. The card aims to give a rapid assessment of national implementation of the programme of work on protected areas. The results will be presented to participating countries ...

Financing Protected Areas

This side event will illustrate the trends in financing for protected areas including current needs and gaps. It will also explore opportunities and barriers to securing a diversified set of funding, including financial mechanisms based on extraction of natural resources (royalties, severance fe ...

Protected Areas and Indigenous Rights: examples of illegitimate management of protected areas

The side event will include presentations by Indigenous Peoples' representatives on protected areas in countries like Tanzania, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Uganda and Paraguay, which have been established on Indigenous lands. Is protected area management legitimate if the territorial rights of Indige ...

Indigenous and Local Communities' Rights and Participation in Protected Areas: a Review of the CBD Programme of Work and suggestions for overcoming obstacles.

This side event will review the implementation of provisions from the CBD Programme of Work relevant to indigenous and local communities' rights and participation in protected areas through case studies from Bangladesh, Uganda, Thailand and Suriname (and possibly other countries). The discussion ...

Managing Protected Areas in the 21st Century

Presentation of the new guide: Managing Protected Area:A global guide, which for the first time brings together state of the art thinking from around the world on the issue of managing protected areas. Ceremony for the signature of the city of Rome of the Countdown 2010 declaration and discussio ...

Key Biodiversity Areas as a basis for national protected area gap analyses

As part of the Program of Work on Protected Areas, the CBD has mandated national protected area gap analyses to assess how well protected areas conserve biodiversity, and where the highest priorities are for expanding and reinforcing existing protected areas. As 2010 approaches governments may ...

Innovations in the management and financing of protected areas: the Brazilian experience

Presentation and discussion of recent Brazilian experiences in the management and financing of protected areas, including the mechanism of environmental compensation, the national database on protected areas and the management strategies of the Amazon protected areas project (ARPA)

The Pan-European Ecological Network and protected areas : a major instrument for implementing the CBD in Europe

The Pan-European Ecological Network (PEEN) provides the governments of the countries of the Pan-European Region with a political framework for action at all levels – local, regional, national and international – enabling them to provide sustainable socio-economic development in their respective ...

Understanding the Relationship Between PAs and Poverty: New Evidence on the Impacts of Protected Areas on Local Livelihoods

A number of different agencies are currently involved in assessments of the benefits and costs of Protected Areas to communities living in and around these areas using a range of newly developed methodologies. This effort addresses the concern that evidence of the positive and negative impacts o ...

Tourism and protected areas

Presentation of Case studies from tourism and sustainable financing in World Heritage sites in Europe and Latin America

Contributing to the implementation the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas at the sub-national level: the experience of the Lazio Region

Presentation of the activities carried out by the Regional Agency for Parks of the Lazio Region (Italy) to support the establishment of a comprehensive system of Protected Areas, including the identification of under-represented ecosystems and irreplaceable areas, the establishment of a monitori ...

Issue-Based Module on Protected Areas TEMATEA: An update on the Issue-Based Modules and introduction of the new module on protected areas - making commitments for Parties from biodiversity-related Conventions easily accessible

Introduction to TEMATEA, the UNEP/IUCN project on issue-based modules on the coherent implementation of biodiversity relevant Conventions and information about related capacity building activities. Presentation of the new module on protected areas.

La Mappa della Primavera (Map of Spring)

Monitoring vegetation in Italian protected areas: this is the aim of the project La Mappa della Primavera (Map of Spring), supported by and with the patronage of the Italian Ministry for Environment and Safeguarding of Territory and Sea, and carried out by Federparchi, Legambiente and Coldiretti ...

LAUNCHING OF THE BOOK ON " BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTH

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity Book Launch

The Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate, and while some of the ramifications of this loss have been explored in other works, Sustaining Life is the first to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. At this side event, j ...

<a href="/doc/side-events/sbstta/sbstta-13/summary-04-gbo3-en.pdf" target="_blank">Global Biodiversity Outlook 3</a>

Jointly organized by SCBD and UNEP-WCMC, this side events aims ot present and discuss the status of preparations of Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, including the contributions by key contributors, such as the organizations participating in the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership <br><br><b>P ...

MCPFE COMMITMENTS FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE FOREST BIODIVERSITY IN EUROPE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRAMEWORK OF CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE MCPFE AND EFE/PEBLDS.

The side event will highlight regional approach and joint actions of the pan-European biodiversity and forestry sectors that strengthen the implementation of CBD Expanded Programme of Work on Forest Biological Diversity and MCPFE commitments on forest biodiversity. The forest policy priorities i ...

COP 9/CBD High Level Segment - Parties´ Commitments for Life on Earth

Explanation of/discussion on possible voluntary Commitments of Parties for achieving the 2010 biodiversity target, being presentetd by the ministers at the COP 9/CBD High Level Segment. What is the "The Life Web Initiative"? What else might be contributions?

Implementation of the CBD Work Program on Forest Biodiversity: what progress has been made?

The event will include the presentation of a summary of 20 independent monitoring reports on the implementation of the expanded program of work on forest biodiversity of the Convention on Biodiversity in 20 different countries.

Developing a global bioregional classification for open oceans and deep seas

This side event will present the results of the Global Open Oceans and Deep Seas Regionalisation (GOODS). It will discuss the process of developing the bioregionalisation, (including expert meetings in Ottawa, Mexico City and the Azores), as well as the proposed next steps. The side event will a ...

Methods for community-based and indigenous farmer organizations to support PoW on agricultural biodiversity

Understanding how to achieve synergies between conservation, agricultural production and livelihoods requires very context specific, place-based knowledge. Many local communities throughout the world have been jointly managing their landscapes for these mutually reinforcing objectives for a many ...

Meeting the growing demand for forest products and services while conserving biodiversity

The side event will present and discuss projected trends in wood products consumption, present and future shares of natural and planted forests in meeting demand, and the role of planted forests in reducing loss of biodiversity. Examples of best practices and guidelines will be presented related ...

AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY

<a href="/doc/side-events/sbstta/sbstta-13/summary-12-en.pdf" target="_blank">AGRICULTURE AND WATER</a>

Implementing in Europe the CBD guidelines on Invasive Alien Species: the European Strategy on IAS, from words to action

A number of European governments, the Council of Europe and other partner organisations (European Environment Agency, European Commission, GISP, Bonn Convention, EPPO, etc) will present reports on how the CBD guidelines on IAS are being implemented in Europe, with special emphasis on the role of ...

Synthetic Biology: The Implications of "Extreme Genetic Engineering" for Biodiversity and the CBD's programme of work.

Side-event hosts: ETC Group with participation from Professor Drew Endy, MIT (USA) Enabled by the convergence of biology, computing and engineering, synthetic biology refers to a suite of foundational technologies that permit the design and construction of any specified DNA sequence, allowing ...

Public Research on GM Trees: objectives and progress

Public researchers from different parts of the world presenting their research on GM Trees and the objectives for doing so.

<a href='/doc/side-events/sbstta/sbstta-13/summary-14-en.pdf'>Regional Forest Cooperation– Reaching the 2010 Biodiversity Target and the UNFF Global Objectives on Forests by 2015</a>

This side event aims to highlight the current state of regional cooperation towards the conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity, and to identify challenges and opportunities for improving the linkages between the international environmental policy agenda and relevant regional pro ...

<a href='/doc/side-events/sbstta/sbstta-13/summary-15-en.pdf''>Follow up of the Consultative Process towards an IMoSEB</a>

Results of the consultation + work in progress

The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources The new framework for livestock biodiversity for food and agriculture.

The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, the first ever international framework to promote the wise management of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture, was adopted by an intergovernmental forum in September 2007 in Interlaken, Switzerland. Representatives from governm ...

Conservation and Poverty Principles and the New CBD Strategic Plan: A Consultation Meeting

The process “Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction” strives to enhance positive and reduce negative impacts of biodiversity conservation on pov-erty, relevant to the CBD strategic plan and progress towards the 2010 target and the Millennium Development Goals. It brings together ...

People for Pollinators: Pollinator Initiatives at International, Regional and National Levels

To present the function, role and Plan of Action of the International Pollinator Initiative and the associated regional and national initiatives, and to present findings from the First Rapid Assessment of Pollinators’ Status.

Agricultural Biodiversity for Food Sovereignty

Civil Society Organisations and Farmers Movements will present key issues and examples concerning the relation of agriculture with biodiversity in the context of the multiple biological, technological, legal and commercial pressures on food production, including climate change and agrofuels. It ...

Paying farmers for biodiversity: what opportunities for agriculture and the environment?

To present information on current state of payments to farmers for various aspects of biodiversity conservation and discuss opportunities and problems such programs have for the agricultural and environmental conservation sectors. Constraints to moving forward and ways to address them will als ...

Biodiversity Offsets and the CBD

A panel discussion open to all delegates that will review emerging best practice on biodiversity offsets internationally; review progress with the Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP); and discuss COP draft decisions touching on biodiversity offsets.

<a href="/doc/side-events/sbstta/sbstta-13/summary-22-en.pdf" target="_blank">STRENGTHENING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CBD - PRESENTATION OF THE OUTCOMES FROM THE 5TH TRONDHEIM CONFERENCE ON BIODIVERSITY</a>

The Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity have since 1993 worked to strengthen CBD’s knowledge base. The fifth conference on 29 October – 2 November 2007 looked at “Ecosystems and people - biodiversity for development – the road to 2010 and beyond”, and brought together some 250 participants, co ...

EA-AGRICULTURE

CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE 2010 BIODIVERSITY TARGET IN DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS-RESULTS OF THE ONLINE DIALOGUE AND REPORT TO COP 9