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Capacity-building workshop for West Asia and North Africa on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

1 - 5 February 2014, Amman, Jordan

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Presentation: Ukraine – Assessing progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Targets and relevant MDGs

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Presentation: Bulgaria – Implementation of Target 11

Participation of the Secretariat in the eighth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, 3-7 February 2014, New York, United States of America

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/Jhed/83126 (2014-015)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

Views on the further development of tools and guidance to assist implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SS/ac/83121 (2014-014)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

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Flyer on Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

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Quick Guides to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Capacity-building workshop for West Asia and North Africa on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Amman, Jordan – 1 to 5 February 2014

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CS/LM/82966 (2013-125)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen

Capacity-building workshop for South America on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Linhares, Brazil, 24 to 28 March 2014

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/DCo/LM/82937 (2013-117)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

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Presentation: Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity - global status, mid-term review, overview of Targets 5, 11, 15

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Presentation: Aichi Biodiversity Target 11: Conservation

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Presentation: Targets 5 and 15: reducing loss and degradation of biodiversity and restoring ecosystems

Regional Capacity-building Workshop to Address Invasive Alien Species and to Achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 in the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia

9 - 12 December 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Practical Guidance on Implementing Integrated Coastal Management in the Context of Achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: Using Pemsea’s on-the-ground Experience and Lessons Learned from Coastal and Ocean Governance in the seas of East Asia

Second meeting of the second phase of the High-level Panel on the Global Assessment of Resources for Implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

2 - 4 December 2013, Chennai, India

The World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA) has been declared a Biodiversity Champion by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in recognition of its important contribution to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

World Public Health Nutrition Association declared Biodiversity Champion

The World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA) has been declared a Biodiversity Champion by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in recognition of its important contribution to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

Review of the use of remotely-sensed data for monitoring biodiversity change and tracking progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/ac/82946 (2013-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, relevant organizations and participants to SBSTTA-17

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for the Pacific on Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration to Support Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Pacific Sub-Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, Suva, Fiji, 25 November 2013

Capacity-building workshop for the Pacific on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

25 - 29 November 2013, Suva, Fiji

To focus attention on the global extinction crises and advance implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the LifeWeb initiative of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is launching the Zero Extinction Campaign.

LifeWeb launches Zero Extinction Campaign to combat species extinctions

To focus attention on the global extinction crises and advance implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the LifeWeb initiative of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is launching the Zero Extinction Campaign.

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Transforming Biodiversity Finance: A quick guide for assessing and mobilizing financial resources to achieve the Aichi Targets and to implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

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Quick guides to Aichi Biodiversity Targets

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Protecting Marine Spaces: Global Targets and Changing Approaches

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UNEP/CBD/COP/11/26: Protected Areas: Progress in the Implementation of the Programme of Work and Achievement of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11

A Global Movement to Champion Aichi Target 1

This side-event will explore the diversity of work being done around the work to connect the public to nature, of innovation and best practice in reaching new audiences, and of the road to the World Parks Congress, where partners will come together to support the growth of a global movement dedi ...

Implementing Targets 11 and 12: A Framework to identify "areas of particular importance for biodiversity"

This side event will present tools that can be helpful to countries to effectively implement Aichi Targets 11 and 12, by showing country focused case studies and lessons learned from identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) and management. It will also provide an update on IUCN´s progress ...

The Role of Law in Achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: Scoping the State of Knowledge

IDLO and the CBD Secretariat, with support from the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment are hosting an interactive session on new thinking on how countries can use law to achieve their goals related to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets - together with partners from the CISDL, IUCN, Natural Just ...

Building synergies between traditional and scientific knowledge systems in biodiversity monitoring and assessments – such as for the Aichi targets and IPBES

This side event will build on the outcomes of the In Depth Dialogue of the WG 8(j) 8 meeting; “Connecting diverse knowledge systems and science, such as in the IPBES, including gender dimensions”. It will present recent developments of methodologies for connecting traditional and scientific know ...

TEEB Water and Wetlands

The TEEB Water and Wetlands study has provided important information on the values of water-related ecosystem services to underpin implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (2011-2020) and all of the Achi Biodiversity targets, particularly target 14. The side event will present the n ...

"Synergies among biodiversity-related conventions"

“Introduction to a new collaborative project being led by UNEP which will identify and explore opportunities and options for enhancing cooperation at both global and national levels, develop guidance on mobilization of resources for more integrated implementation of MEAs at the national level, a ...

Delivering Biodiversity Knowledge in the Information Age - the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook.

The event will launch a new initiative to focus effort and investment towards better understanding of life on Earth and our impacts upon it. The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) offers a framework to harness the immense power of information technology and an open data culture, to g ...

Achieving the Aichi Targets: Perverse and Positive Incentives Related to Conserving Biodiversity and the Role of Indigenous and Community Conserved Territories and Areas

The event will discuss successful non-market based approaches and incentive schemes to conserving biodiversity and related traditional knowledge, including the redirection of perverse incentives that promote unsustainable forms and levels of livestock and bioenergy production, and the developmen ...

Culture Collection networks coordinate access and benefit sharing

A series of brief presentations demonstrating the value and engagement of ex situ microbial germplasm in developing and implementing access and benefit as well as in characterizing and cataloging invasive microbes.

Measuring Public Awareness on Biodiversity: Recent surveys and methodologies

The challenges of finding common measurements on public awareness of biodiversity will be discussed in this event through a presentation some of the latest survey findings on biodiversity awareness from Parties and Partners such as the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the government of C ...

MEAS DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN SUPPORT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BIODIVERSITY

Biodiversity-related MEAs plus other Conventions get together to present and discuss their different strategic and planning processes (as opposed to activities) that are or will take place in support of implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. For example, CMS Parties are developi ...

REDD+ AND NBSAP PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION – SYNERGIES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO MEETING THE AICHI TARGETS

Any of the five forest-based climate change mitigation activities included in REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks) can potentially contribute towards t ...

NEW NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY TARGETS: BRAZIL, JAPAN, FILAND AND GEORGIA

A series of brief presentations from Brazil, Japan, Finland and Georgia on the process of establishing national targets, using the Aichi Biodiversity Targets as a framework. These countries will be sharing their lessons learned, their achievements and will be discussing some of the strategies th ...

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/17/INF/12

Facilitating National Monitoring and Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Launch of Seed Map.org – a web portal on Biodiversity, Seeds and Farmers Organized by: USC Canada and ETC Group

The Seedmap.org portal, the first of its kind interactive website on biodiversity, will be launched in October 2013. It shows the state of global agro-biodiversity today, identifies key threats to the world’s seed and biodiversity systems, particularly the impact of climate change, and highlig ...

Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEPDD)

Discussion of Sud Expert Plantes (SEP) results and of SEPDD objectives and scheduled activities. SEP focused on the development of scientific capacities in plant biodiversity in 22 countries of Africa and Asia. The next phase, SEPDD will bring academics to work at the interface between researc ...

Benefits of implementing and achieving Target 12: a countries perspective

Following CBD's Secretariat call for Aichi Target Champions, a group of organizations working on species conservation has established the “Friends of Target 12” partnership which goal is to support CBD parties to meet Aichi Biodiversity Target 12. This side event, organised by BirdLife Internati ...

Microfinancing for sustainable development and Environment Change

Microfinancing for sustainable development and Environment Change

An Indicators Approach to Understanding resilience of Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes: a community-level perspective

An indicator approach has become increasingly used to monitor progress towards achieving specific goals and targets identified in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Millennium Development Goals and other relevant international agreements. While it has played an important role in underst ...

IPBES draft Work Programme 2014-2018

The proposed IPBES work programme, developed by the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and Bureau will be presented by the IPBES interim secretariat, in support of SBSTTA-17 agenda items 5 and 7. The draft work programme builds on the input received from CBD, and from governments and other sta ...

Scenarios Assessment for the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4

The event will provide the delegates with an update on the progress towards the scenarios assessment for the GBO-4. It will introduce methods and approaches used for the assessment, provide information on domains and topics covered for each target, and highlight first results.

Ecologically or Biologically significant Marine Areas (EBSAs)

Pursuant to CBD decisions X/29 and XI/17, the CBD Secretariat has convened six regional workshops on ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) since November 2011. So far, experts from 92 countries and 79 organizations have contributed to the six CBD workshops. The results of ...

Mainstreaming Biodiversity

This session will present the results of a recent expert meeting, hosted by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, to review progress in mainstreaming biodiversity in policy and production landscapes over the past 10 years. The Global Environment Facility ...

Behavioural Change and inclusive wealth: transition to Sustainability

The side event intends to present the key messages and recommendations from the CBD commissioned paper: Managing Biodiversity is about people and the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012. The main objective will be to highlight how the IWR can facilitate change in the way people perceive biodiversity an ...