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Strengthening what works— recognising and supporting the conservation achievements of indigenous peoples and local communities

Case examples, distilled lessons and tools will be presented and distributed to the side event's participants providing practical support to the implementation of PoWPA and, in particular, its element no.2 on Governance, participation, equity and benefit sharing

Tracking progress towards the CBD’s protected area targets

Parties to the CBD set a number of targets for the world’s protected areas to be met in terrestrial habitats by 2010 and in marine habitats by 2012. These targets include 1) protecting at least 10% of each of the world’s ecoregions, 2) protecting areas of particular importance to biodiversity, a ...

National Biodiversity Indicators - African experiences and needs

Representatives of several eastern and southern African countries will report on their successes and needs in developing national biodiversity indicators. They will present some indicators developed during 2009 and 2010, their impact so far, and the lessons learnt about the capacity required to ...

Forest Biodiversity and REDD+

Sustainable management of forests including conservation is a vital part of the solution to solving two of the most pressing environmental issues: climate change and biodiversity loss. Reducing deforestation and forest degradation is a challenge that requires coordination between experts working ...

Implementation of Article 10, with a focus on Article 10(c): Indigenous peoples and local community representatives from Cameroon, Bangladesh, Suriname, Guyana and Thailand discuss their experiences, faced obstacles and present recommendations.

How effectively is Article 10(c) – to protect and encourage customary sustainable use of biodiversity - implemented at the local and national levels? During this side event, Indigenous peoples and support organisations from Bangladesh, Suriname, Guyana, Cameroon and Thailand will present and di ...

UNEP BRIEFING TO SBSTTA DELEGATES ON ITS WORK ON BIODIVERSITY

This event is to share and inform delegates attending the SBSTTA on UNEP's past and ongoing work on biodiversity that is intended to support the implementation of some of the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

The CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas - the new challenges ahead

The side event will present the results from the "Futures Workshop" on key issues and challenges to enhance implementation of CBD/POWPA in a post 2010 context.

The Science of Synergies: Biodiversity and Climate Change

Presentation of the draft report of the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change.

Exploring biodiversity co-benefits of climate change mitigation measures: Bringing the CBD and UNFCCC agendas closer together

Through the implementation of climate change mitigation measures it is likely that co-benefits, such as biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services, can be gained in addition to emission reductions. Jointly organised by BfN, the LifeWeb Initiative and UNEP-WCMC, this side ...

Water, Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development post 2010

Water is the most important natural resource on the planet. It is central to sustainable development. Achieving water security in the face of global over-use of water, and in the face of climate change, is already one of the highest environment issues on the political, business and public agenda ...

The Satoyama Initiative (Part 1)

The Satoyama Initiative is a global effort led by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MoEJ) and the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) which aims to understand, maintain and restore socio-ecological production landscapes or human-influenced natural environmen ...

Building a Conservation Vision for the Amazon Biome

To show the progress in the implementation of the program of work of protected area in the Amazon Biome, as a way to build complementarity with national systems, to better achieve fully representative conservation focusing particularly on the maintenance of ecosystem services for adaptation, in ...

ABS LIKE-MINDED IN SPIRIT GROUP OF WOMEN LUNCH

The Group, which was inaugurated at ABS-8 last November, will hold a luncheon meeting on Friday 26 March. All women participants at ABS-9 are warmly invited to attend including representatives from governments, NGOs, ILCs, civil society and industry. The purpose of the luncheon is to get to kn ...

Sharing the Harvest: A look at current benefit sharing practices among the community of users of genetic resources for food and agriculture.

A diverse panel will describe normative benefit sharing practices currently being used in their research communities. This panel will provide insights about benefit sharing practices from a range of perspectives: among basic biological researchers (in the US university and small biotechnology co ...

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND PROCESSES AFFECTING AN INTERNATIONAL REGIME ON ABS UNDER THE CBD: Implications for its Scope and Possibilities of a Sectoral Approach

Biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples, Local communities, and the formation of networks

The purpose of this event will be to talk about the formation of formal networks to protect natural resources and traditional knowledge. The workshop will discuss these issues within the larger context of the indigenous movement in the Americas. It will also provide specific pitfalls in the fo ...

Participatory Approaches to Implementing the IRABS through Community Empowerment Including Launch of ABS Sustainable Forest Management Study

There is increasing recognition of the critical need to enable indigenous peoples and local communities to effectively engage with all stages of ABS agreements. This event will focus on innovative participatory approaches and tools that aim to empower communities to take ownership over ABS proce ...

LEAVING ROOM FOR FUTURE ABS NORM DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL REGIME – THE EXAMPLE OF AGRICULTURAL MICROBIAL GENETIC RESOURCES

Speakers will address how – in the longer term -- access and benefit sharing norms under the International Regime could be fashioned to support the use of microbial genetic resources in agricultural research and development, ultimately contributing to increased food security. Because there is n ...

Community Protocols for ABS and the International Regime

Community protocols are an important tool for facilitating PIC and equitable benefit-sharing with ILCs. Experience will be presented of: 1) a Quechua community biocultural protocol for Equitable Benefit-Sharing in the Potato Park, Peru - a legal instrument already functioning in practice; 2) a K ...

Biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge Associated Natural Resources under ABS

The goal of this event will be to talk about provisions needed to ensure that traditional knowledge associated to natural resources is protected under ABS. Concrete examples will be provided and indigenous models will be used to exemplified the need to protect traditional knowledge using indige ...

Key issues on the final stage of IR negotiations: reflections and proposals

This side event aims to present and discuss substantial issues that have been only marginally addressed or debated under the negotiations of the International Regime on ABS. These include: analysis of the concepts of sovereignty and genetic resources as natural information widely shared around ...

Defusing Disclosure in Patent Applications

The event will discuss the outlines of a positive strategy to strengthen legal certainty in the International Regime while supporting WIPO's role in finding coherence across national IP systems through the IGC on ABS, TK and Folklore

ABS contracts for non-commercial academic research – two models

Jointly, stakeholders from a provider and a user country (Colombia and Switzerland) present their complementary models for contracts especially designed for non-commercial academic research. The Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá presents its proposal of a "Contrato Marco" (framework co ...

SIDE EVENT ON NON-COMMERCIAL BENEFITS RESULTING FROM BASIC RESEARCH

To show the non-commercial benefits of the cooperation relationship and to present how the project has been implemented and is conducted in the host country, placing an emphasis on the non-commercial benefits for the countries of origin. DFG will present the DFG-Ecuador Project / RU 816

The Operation of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

The event will provide information on the experiences and update on recent developments in the operation and functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

ACCESS & BENEFIT SHARING FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL PRODUCTS

The view of the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association on the effect of the International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing on the Biological Control Industry

An international regime on ABS: Essential Questions with Regard to Scope

The functionality and strength of an international regime on ABS depends to a great extent on its scope. Whether the parties will agree to a broad and inclusive scope depends on how the different sub-sectors of genetic resources will be dealt with in an international regime and what genetic reso ...

Access and Benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture

The Chair and other Members of the Bureau of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture will present the Commission's work on access and benefit-sharing for genetic resources for food and agriculture, including FAO Conference Resolution 18/2009.

ABS AND THE NEW CBD STRATEGIC PLAN

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) is one of the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) along with conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Thus implementation of ABS provisions within the Convention need as much attention as the othe ...

Towards an ABS Commons System

IDLO, Natural Justice, SPDA, Association Andes and CESAGEN: presentation on the initiatives currently underway in Latin America, Africa and India on the issue of Commons. Topics covered: The work of CESAGEN and SPDA on ABS Commons; Association Andes on open source seed systems; and Natural Justi ...

Launch of UNU-IAS and UNEP Publication on 'Learning from the Practioners: Benefit Sharing principles from enterprising communities' in collaboration with the Equator Initiative

The event will launch and present perspectives from 14 community partners of the Equator Initiative, who are engaged in biodiversity based enterprises. The research views such community enterprises as localized bio-prospecting activities, and analysed principles followed by the communities to sh ...

Considering Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in the Negotiation and Implementation of the International Regime

Speakers will address how the International Regime can support the use of genetic resources for food and agriculture to achieve food security. Speakers: Dr. Jose Maria Sampaio, Policy Advisor, Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrapa) - Ministry of Agriculture - Countries' depend ...

Final Outputs of The ABS Project -- Detailed studies of ABS Contracts and a Project Overview

This event will launch the final two books in the series of books published by the IUCN under The ABS Project, and will introduce IUCN's new work on this issue. It will feature presentations by Thomas Greiber, IUCN; Tomme Young, IRIS; and many other persons.

THE ROLE OF CUSTOMARY LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ABS AND TK GOVERNANCE

The event will present the findings of a study by UNU-IAS on the role of customary law in ABS and TK Governance in Andean and Pacific Island countries and of a recent publication by the Initiative for Biopiracy on complementarity and conflict between customary resource and knowledge management a ...

Benefit-sharing under the regime of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

The event will provide information on the current status of the Benefit-sharing Fund and the first projects approved.

BIO-CULTURAL PROTOCOLS: Presentations by a variety of stakeholders on bio-cultural community protocols, including UNEP, UNESCO, GTZ and Natural Justice

Presentations by a variety of stakeholders on bio-cultural community protocols and an exposition of the TK commons

Access and Benefit Sharing for Biological Control Agents

Explanation of the use of genetic resources by the Biological Control Industry and the impact of the ABS IR

Synthetic Biology, Metagenomics and the next generation of digital biopiracy.

Synthetic Biology is the rational design and construction of new lifeforms from synthetic DNA using engineering principles. It is rapidly becoming a key tool for the energy, chemical and pharmaceutical industry to synthesize chemicals, biofuels, plastics and medicinal compounds. Unlike recombina ...

Linking sustainable forest management and ABS - conflicts, potentials synergies at national and international level

Presentation and discussion of the recommendations of the Panafrican Workshop on ABS and Forests (July 2009 at UNEP Nairobi) end the preliminary results of the CISDL study "Interface between forest management and Access and Benefit-Sharing"

ABS-legislation in Norway - the new Nature Management Act

Presentation of the Norwegian Nature Management Act and the Marine Resources Act containing rules on access to genetic material and benefit-sharing

MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: AN INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE

The International Regime - Addressing Traditional Knowledge and Customary Rights

IIED will present key findings of research on customary laws and practices for TK protection and ABS conducted with indigenous and local communities in Peru, Panama, India, China and Kenya; and recommendations for the International Regime. ANDES (Peru) will present more detailed findings of thei ...

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous representatives will discuss the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the relationship to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The discussion will also examine Canada's current position on the Declaration.

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF BIODIVERSITY

Presentation of a comprehensive Research Agreement dealing with Scientific Evaluation of Traditional Medicine for diabetes; Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team in Aboriginal Antidiabetic Medicines (CIHR-TAAM) is a multidisciplinary group of university researchers indigenous community members and the health board of the Canadian James Bay Cree Territory devoted to evaluating the effectiveness of Indigenous ...

International Vilm Workshop on matters related to Traditional Knowledge associated with Genetic Resources and the International ABS-Regime - Results and specific ideas

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety has organized an International Vilm Workshop on matters related to Traditional Knowledge associated with Genetic Resources and the International ABS-Regime. ...

BALANCING BUILDING BLOCKS OF A FUNCTIONAL ABS SYSTEM: Key Legal issues affecting the Creation of the ABS Regime

This side event will present a legal analysis of the functional challenges that must be addressed by the Parties in creating and implementing the ABS regime. The analysis has been written by Tomme Young and Morten Walløe Tvedt as part of a research project on ABS that is currently carried out b ...

Indigenous Educators and the CBD

Indigenous Educators Contributions to Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Work

Towards an ABS Commons System

IDLO, Natural Justice, SPDA, Association Andes and CESAGEN: presentation on the initiatives currently underway in Latin America, Africa and India on the issue of Commons. Topics covered: The work of CESAGEN and SPDA on ABS Commons; Association Andes on open source seed systems; and Natural Just ...

Traditional Sami building technology: Transmission of Sami traditional knowledge through building of a Sami turf hut

The Sami University College is leading a pilot project on documentation, protection and transmission of Sami traditional knowledge (TK). The use of a Sami concept of árbediehtu (árbi for ‘heritage; inheritance’, diehtu for ’knowledge’) allows to see TK both as information and as a process which ...