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Web Announcement
#115870
2018-02-01

Today some four billion people live in urban areas. In these human-built spaces, people tend to think of streets and buildings.

Web Announcement
#116397
2018-04-06

Today on the occasion of World Health Day, it is important to note that human health ultimately depends upon the availability of clean air, fresh water, medicines, food, and fuel sources.

Web Announcement
#112457
2017-04-05

Today on World Health Day, the world is focusing on the issue of depression, which has emerged as a major health problem, affecting over 300 million people every year.

Web Announcement
#104596
2015-07-20

To support the mobilisation and alignment of technical and financial resources for priority capacity-building needs, IPBES is developing a prototype Matchmaking Facility. This Facility aims to promote and facilitate dialogue and cooperation among institutions, organisations and individuals looking for technical and financial support, and those in a position to provide such support. IPBES is launching a call for proposals and pledges of support for capacity-building projects and activities under the prototype IPBES Matchmaking Facility, following up on the outcome of the third session of the Plenary (decision IPBES-3/1).

Web Announcement
#96353
2013-11-13

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.

Web Announcement
#117320
2018-06-27

To facilitate biodiversity-inclusive investments for systems change, the following supportive functions and policy changes should be carried out through an integrated approach

Web Announcement
#93726
2013-05-15

To better inform policymakers on what needs to be done to secure the ecosystems and species in the Arctic that people rely on for life and livelihood, the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council, has released the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA).

Web Announcement
#99405
2014-05-30

To avoid landscape fragmentation and loss of species and habitats for biodiversity, participants to a three-day workshop in Kurupukari, Guyana, have agreed on a Regional Action Plan related to biological corridors, connectivity conservation and trans-boundary conservation within the Guiana Shield Ecoregion.

Web Announcement
#26090
2006-10-16

Timor-Leste becomes newest member to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

<br>(View also the press release in <a href="/doc/press/2006/pr-2006-10-16-timor-leste-fr.pdf">French</a>.)

Web Announcement
#59716
2009-05-21

Timely Submission of National Reports Key to the Success of the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit and the High-Level Meeting during the Sixty-Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Web Announcement
#97365
2014-01-31

Three new ratifications to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization provide significant momentum towards its entry into force. The recent ratifications by Benin, Burkina Faso and Myanmar bring the total number of ratifications to the ground-breaking treaty under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to 29.

Web Announcement
#104582
2015-07-16

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 human health in the Anthropocene epoch

Web Announcement
#112177
2017-03-08

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day highlights women in the changing world of work, and sets our collective sights on the objective of making gender equality a reality by 2030.

Web Announcement
#112312
2017-03-22

This year’s World Water Day theme, “Why waste water?”, highlights the importance of reducing and reusing wastewater.

Web Announcement
#103220
2015-03-19

This year’s World Water Day theme, “Water and sustainable development”, coincides with the ongoing discussions in the United Nations of the post-2015 development agenda and the adoption of a set of new sustainable development goals and targets expected later this year.

Web Announcement
#122425
2019-09-27

This year’s World Tourism Day theme, ‘Tourism and jobs: A better future for all’, serves to highlight the critical role tourism, and ultimately nature, plays in job creation.

Web Announcement
#108931
2016-06-17

This year’s World Day to Combat Desertification shows the importance of being inclusive as we cooperate to restore and rehabilitate degraded land. It also points to the convergence of international action and landmark agreements recently adopted which recognize the links between the different global challenges of our times.

Web Announcement
#122810
2019-10-30

This year’s World Cities Day theme, “Changing the world: innovations and better life for future generations”, focuses on how urban governance can be used to achieve sustainable development.

Web Announcement
#102207
2014-12-11

This year, declared International Year of Family Farming by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Mountain Day is being celebrated under the theme of "Mountain Farming”. Mountain agriculture, which is predominantly family farming, has for centuries been a model for sustainable development.

Web Announcement
#103237
2015-03-20

This year, as we celebrate the International Day of Forests under the theme of “Forests and Climate Change,” we need to also look at the crucial and direct contribution of forests and forest biodiversity to the mitigation and adaption to climate change.

Web Announcement
#122683
2019-10-15

This year, World Food Day calls for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. It is a reminder that without healthy nature and biodiversity, we cannot have quality nutrition, and without quality nutrition we cannot have good health.

Web Announcement
#103058
2015-03-08

This year, International Women’s Day highlights the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that twenty years’ after its adoption remains an essential roadmap for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights.

Web Announcement
#108247
2016-04-19

This year, International Mother Earth Day coincides with the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at UN Headquarters in New York, where world governments will demonstrate their commitment to meet the challenges of climate change.

Web Announcement
#110441
2016-10-14

This week marks the two-year anniversary of the entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Web Announcement
#108453
2016-05-02

This is a historic day in the life of our Convention on Biological Diversity for two reasons. First, we open the first meeting of this body, the Subsidiary Body on Implementation. Second, the Secretariat celebrates 20 years in this beautiful and diverse city of Montreal.

Web Announcement
#19204
2006-01-26

There will be no biological diversity on our planet if there is no cultural diversity

Remarks by Doña Cristina Narbona Ruiz, Minister of the Environment for Spain at the fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-Sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions. (Text in Spanish)

Web Announcement
#43512
2008-02-05

There will be an international NGO forum inform the public about important COP 9 matters, major obstacles and progress that needs to be achieved at COP 9. The 100-days-to-COP-9 Forum will be held in Berlin from 8 to 9 February 2008.

Web Announcement
#47820
2008-05-22

The “Green Wave” launched at the UN Bonn Biodiversity Summit.

Web Announcement
#120944
2019-05-06

The world needs transformative change if life on Earth is to be safeguarded and people are to continue to receive the services and benefits that nature provides, according to a new report from an international team of leading researchers.

Web Announcement
#110440
2016-10-14

The world is facing profound challenges to meet the future needs for food of a growing population.

Web Announcement
#118797
2018-11-05

The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief

Web Announcement
#118498
2018-10-11

The winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2018 were announced today. The MIDORI Prize is a prestigious biennial international prize organized by the AEON Environmental Foundation and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Web Announcement
#110666
2016-10-31

The winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2016 have today been announced.

Web Announcement
#107020
2016-01-28

The wetlands of today are essential for human health and prosperity, and the benefits they provide have enormous economic and social value. As confirmed by the 2013 report, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Water and Wetlands, which we are proud to have contributed to, the ecosystem services provided by wetlands, on a per unit area basis, are the most valuable of all of our ecosystem types.

Web Announcement
#22219
2006-06-04

The very successful GreenWeek (May 30 – June 2) hosted by the European Commission featured a major international conference, exhibition and numerous activities under the theme Biodiversity is life!

Web Announcement
#118882
2018-11-21

The two-year wait is over! Amidst the beating sun of Sharm-el-Sheikh comes a project from the cold, dark winter of Northern Europe.

Web Announcement
#108470
2016-05-04

The twentieth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-20) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came to a close on 30 April 2016 with the adoption of a number of key recommendations that provide the scientific basis for enhanced implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and achievement of its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

Web Announcement
#107268
2016-02-14

The theme of this conference, “biodiversity for sustainable development”, could not come at a better time. Finally, the world is waking up to the essential role of biodiversity and healthy ecosystems for all life on earth, including humans and our well-being. The opportunity for us to make lasting change has arrived.

Web Announcement
#107550
2016-03-07

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality”, is well-aligned with the ambitious Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, which integrates gender equality and women’s empowerment as a cross-cutting theme across the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets, making it clear that equality and empowerment are a necessary part of a sustainable future.

Web Announcement
#114023
2017-08-08

The ten-year anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples presents a fitting opportunity to draw attention to the significant contribution of indigenous peoples to the conservation and sustainable use of the world’s biodiversity.

Web Announcement
#19296
2006-01-31

The successful conclusion of your negotiations will put an end to the current uncertainty

Remarks by Ahmed Djoghlaf at the Opening session of the fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-Sessional Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing.

Web Announcement
#90515
2012-10-02

The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (COP-MOP 6) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety opens in Hyderabad, India.

Web Announcement
#101982
2014-11-25

The signature on 15 November 2014 of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations will ensure joint implementation of the Pacific region’s Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in the Pacific Island Region 2014-2020, and the CBD Strategic Plan for Biological Diversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

Web Announcement
#101118
2014-09-29

The seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (or COP-MOP 7) opened today at the Alpensia Convention Center in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea. The meeting is the first of three major biodiversity meetings being held in Pyeongchang.

Web Announcement
#115552
2017-12-11

The science body under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meets this week to discuss a wide array of biodiversity-related issues critical for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and tackling climate change. These discussions, taking place at the twenty-first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-21), being held in Montreal, Canada, from 11 to 14 December 2017, will lay the foundation for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

Web Announcement
#116784
2018-05-21

The rich variety of life on Earth is essential for the welfare and prosperity of people today and for generations to come.

Web Announcement
#42675
2008-01-11

The report of the "Expert meeting in preparation of SBSTTA-13 and WGPA-2" is now available. This meeting was held at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation's conference centre (the International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm, 2 - 7 December 2007) and focused on the exchange of scientific information.

Web Announcement
#26085
2006-10-16

The release of the first issue of the SCBD newsletter on business and biodiversity --<i> Business.2010</i>.

<br>Click<a href="/doc/newsletters/default.asp#biz"> here</a> to download high resolution version.

Web Announcement
#26086
2006-10-16

The release of the first issue of the SCBD newsletter on biosafety -- <i>Biosafety Protocol News </i>(BPN).

<br>Click <a href="/doc/newsletters/default.asp#bpn">here</a> to download the newsletter in other resolution and format.

Web Announcement
#51586
2008-09-26

The province of Santa Elena, Ecuador, proclaims “A Provincial Day for Protected Areas”

Montreal, 26 September 2008 – The province of Santa Elena, the newest province in Ecuador, emerged as the first jurisdiction in the world to proclaim a provincial day for protected areas, the Prefecta of the province, Ms. Ana Triviño Cisneros, has announced. To be celebrated annually on 23 Septe ...

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