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Biodiversity of inland waters

In this session, nature-oriented river works, which started 20 years ago in Japan, will be reviewed first with various examples for the purpose of sharing knowledge among international participants. Then the discussion will cover how the works can contribute to the post 2010 Strategic Goal B, “r ...

Sustainable use of Wild Plants

More than 50,000 medicinal and aromatic plants(MAP) species are used globally, especially for those in developing countries both in terms of their of their own health purpose and their income resource. However, at the same time, 20% of MAP species are endangered due to over-harvesting and land c ...

Assessment Process: Exploring Satoyama-Satoumi Renaissance

The side event will present the findings of the Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA) which has recently completed. The JSSA applied the approach of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) to assess the condition and trends of the socio-ecological production landscapes in Japan and to sugges ...

A REPORT FROM THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT – 1) BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE, AND; 2) A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE GENETIC DIVERSITY

Presentations addressing the issue of biodiversity will be given from the macro and micro perspectives. 1. Australia currently conserves more than 13 per cent of the country through the protected area network. Threats to reserves, however, go beyond boundaries and influences are often landscap ...

FINANCIAL MOBILIZATION FOR FOR FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Mobilization of financial resources on Forests and Biodiversity Conservation remains one crucial aspect in meeting the challenges of Biodiversity resource Conservation, poverty and hunger, climate change and improving lives of communities and forests users. Unfortunately several communities and ...

Threatened Ecosystems, Vulnerable People

This event will showcase two of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management’s latest flagship products: the recently-initiated process to develop categories and criteria for assessing the conservation status of ecosystems, and a new publication on ecosystems and climate adaptation – the latest i ...

Why Global Forest Governance Matters

Forest challenges, such as REDD and access and benefit sharing, are highly cross-sectoral, necessitating engagement across sectors and interests in a complex forest regime. Over the past 10 months, an IUFRO-led Expert Panel on the International Forest Regime carried out a global scientific asses ...

Recent developments in Patent Law relevant for Genetic Resources

The side-event will look at relevant develoments in patent law relevant for ABS and rights ot genetic resources.

Biodiversity conservation in tropical forests

1) Debate on the ITTO/IUCN Guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests. 2) Report on the ITTO/IUCN/CBD Conference on Biodiversity Conservation in Transboundary Tropical Forests (Quito, Ecuador)

Science-policy interfaces - examples from Europe

To better interlink biodiversity research and biodiversity policy there are several national science-policy interfaces in different European countries. The German Network Forum for Biodiversity Research and colleagues from Belgium, France, Switzerland and EPBRS present the respective approaches ...

Pacific SIDS: Value Island Biodiversity: Its Our Life

The side event aims at sharing success stories from around the Pacific region and to highlight some of the key challenges in the Pacific with regards to biodiversity conservation. There will be presentations by selected key note speakers as well as an exhibition and display of products from the ...

Biodiversity of Marine and Coast - MPAs and Sustainable Fisheries Supported by Citizens

Conservation of Coastal&Marine Biodiversity WG, CBD Citizens Network Japan has organized the movement to propose the potential site of MPAs in Japan. To support MPAs, citizens may support the sustainable fishery to support fishery local small communitiies. Our WG discuss the ideal system of MPAs ...

Global Sustainable Tourism Council

The event will highlight the work of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC). The GSTC is an international membership council that aims to foster the increased knowledge and understanding of sustainable tourism practices and the adoption of universal sustainable tourism principles. At the ...

Valuing and managing marine resources for human wellbeing

This session will examine the complexities of valuing and managing the oceans for human wellbeing. The importance of the oceans to people will be demonstrated by the first global economic valuation of marine ecosystem services, specifically shoreline protection, recreation and fisheries. The s ...

Business and biodiversity: cooperation between stakeholders and strategies

Exchanges and cooperation between biodiversity stakeholders are crucial to comply both with business needs and research needs. The French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity and Orée, an organisation for companies, territories and environment, act as a science-society interface through the ...

MULTI-YEAR PLAN OF ACTION FOR SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION ON BIODIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT

The main objectives of this side event are to, following the submission of an elaborated Multi-Year Plan of Action for South-South Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development to COP 10 under agenda item 4.9, by Yemen on behalf of the G-77, provide Parties, regional agencies, relevant organizatio ...

Gender Mainstreaming in the three Rio Conventions: Promoting synergies for sustainable development

This side event will present gender mainstreaming in the three Rio Conventions, including an analysis of gaps and challenges for better coordination between the three conventions.

LOCAL BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY AND ACTIONS PLANS

Shaping the Future for Asia's Protected Areas - taking the PoWPA forward

The objectives of this event are - to Launch Progress Report of CBD PoWPA in EA region, - to Share experiences and lessons learned in Asia region, - to Communicate and shape Post2010 plan of PoWPA in Asia region, - and to Share the future WCPA Asia strategy

EcoFunds database – Monitoring Conservation Investments in the Andes Amazon Region

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds - RedLAC - and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation present the Ecofunds Database, a georeferenced portal for monitoring conservation needs and investments in the Andes Amazon region. Ecofunds has tracked more than 600 projects and ...

Current status on Biological Diversity in Iraq

Iraqi has become the 192th party to the Convention of Biological Diversity in 2009. Iraq has relatively rich biological diversity in the Middle East, but its importance was ignored for a long time. The session will introduce the recent progress and action plans in the field of biological diversi ...

Cities, Local Authorities and Biodiversity: Improving cooperation for local implementation of the CBD

ICLEI, the SCBD and participants of the Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity will update delegates on the development of a plan of action to complement decision IX/28, and highlight examples of successul cooperation between national, sub-national and local governments

LANDSCAPE APPROACHES TO CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT – Guidelines and recommendations built on a combination of scientific knowledge and multiple field experiences

CIFOR and FFPRI, as development-oriented research organizations, have joined forces with conservation and development agencies operating in tropical multifunctional landscapes of high biodiversity value. CIFOR, FFPRI, WWF, IUCN, Intercooperation, Ecoagriculture partners and many others have exch ...

The new CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas Web Portal and E-Curriculum

The completely revised and updated PoWPA web portal on the CBD website is unveiled with new functionalities including thousands of easily searchable resources and an e-curriculum on the PoWPA.

Addressing the Bushmeat Crisis: Recommendations from the CBD Bushmeat Liaison Group

Please join the CBD Secretariat, FAO, CIFOR, and CIC to learn more about the Liaison Group on Bushmeat’s recommendations towards a more sustainable use of bushmeat. The recommendations will be addressed by COP 10 as part of the review of implementation of Article 10 of the Convention (Sustainab ...

ICCAs in coastal and marine environments: learning from long-standing and brand new examples throughout the world

ICCAs— sites and landscapes/ seascapes voluntarily conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities—are a phenomenon of global significance in both terrestrial and marine and coastal environments. This event will feature tools and guidance on how CBD Parties, indigenous peoples, local commu ...

Indigneous and local communities, their traditional Knowledge and responses to Climate change

Global climate change is expected to transform the world’s biodiversity, with major impacts on livelihoods of indigenous and local communities. While scientists struggle to predict climate change outcomes at global and regional scales, indigenous communities grapple with assessing impacts on the ...

TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: key findings for Local Policy and Business

This session presents key findings and recommendations for Local Policy and Business including Japanese best practices and other findings based on the “policy studies of environmental economics” program of MOE-J. It includes responses from the public and private sector and highlights practical n ...

East and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Information Initiative (ESABII)

Introduction of the goal and progress of ESABII, activities for the development of biodiversity information and taxonomic capacity building in accordance with 2010-2011 ESABII Work Plan.

LEGAL AND POLICY TOOLS TO ADAPT BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Employing adaptive management principles and techniques, this side event discusses opportunities to use national legal and regulatory frameworks to adapt biodiversity management to climate change and strengthen resiliency in biodiversity governance. The Environmental Law Institute will release f ...

The Census of Marine Life: A New Scientific Baseline for Policy

The Census of Marine Life, a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans will be released in October 2010. This unprecedented effort involved over 2500 scientists from 80 countries and spanned all realms of the ocean, from ...

LIVING WITH DYNAMIC EARTH FLOWS―FROM STEEP MOUNTAINS TO THE OPEN OCEAN

n the Japanese Archipelago, people in coastal and mountainous areas live on land marked by severe geological morphology, geology and climate. They have held on to traditional wisdom about nature while introducing modern technologies in adapting to these severe environments. The Chubu Region of c ...

Understanding The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): An IUCN Workshop and Seminar Series (Sponsored by Mercuria)

In 2010-2011 IUCN will offer training opportunities, building on the TEEB project and designed to support developing country policy-makers in the preparation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and other environmental policies. This side event will outline the initiativ ...

UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING THE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE

This side event will present a new volume of the CBD Technical Series dedicated to an analysis of the systemic character of global change, biodiversity and human development, and the relationships between them. The papers describe and evaluate the complicated relationships and dynamics between h ...

GEF: Fourth Overall Performance Study

The GEF Evaluation Office conducted the fourth independent evaluation of the GEF as an input to its fifth replenishment process. The Director of the Evaluation Office will present the main conclusions and recommendations of the study and will request feedback from the participants.

New Pathways for Conservation Finance

The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) presents innovative approaches for financing biodiversity conservation. This event will bring together representatives from different working groups to discuss the role of Environmental Funds in scaling up conservation resources; cutting-edge Innovative Fi ...

Biodiversity and Carbon in China: Opportunities and challenges for local governments

Biodiversity in China is under immense pressure. Loss of biodiversity is much worse than previously expected due to the cumulative impact of human disturbance and climate change. To achieve sustainable development and tackle climate change, biodiversity and carbon are vital for policy forming of ...

Common pools of genetic resources: A solution for effective and fair ABS?

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has widely been understood as arranging access to genetic resources and benefit sharing in the form of bilateral exchanges between providers and users. This arrangement has often proved to lack efficiency and distributional justice. Based on a reading ...

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, WORLD COMMISSION ON PROTECTED AREAS

Managing protected areas as part of an integrated, connected landscape has gained momentum as an approach that delivers multiple benefits, including conserving biodiversity, securing local livelihoods, and strengthening the resilience of natural and human communities to the impacts of climate ch ...

Indigenous Wisdom for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security

Timeless and resilient practices and new initiatives presented by indigenous communities and their partners to achieve agrobiodiversity and food security

Biodviversity and Climate Justice

This side event will showcase the different food cuisines from rice, ranging from hors d’ vors, appetizers, main course and desserts that are so delicious and tempting that one cannot imagine living without rice. The different rice varieties and food cuisines will be exhibited to the negoti ...

Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil

Study of cases and signal new tendencies in management of agriculture in Brazil.

An Interactive Ocean Data Viewer: Enhancing marine and coastal data accessibility and quality, and building technical capacity for implementation of CBD Programmes of Work.

Effective use of data and information, and the technical capacity to do so, is an essential prerequisite for successful implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, including the Programmes of Work on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, Island Biodiversity, and Protected Areas. However ...

Beyond 2010: Defining science based targets for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

At this side event organised by DIVERSITAS and UNEP, leading scientists will look ahead towards 2020 and beyond, and propose a new framework for efficient indicators and targets: - that places biodiversity in a socioeconomic/ecological framework, following up on outcome of the Millennium Ecosyst ...

ILCs and the Private Sector "Open for Business"

ILCs working with the private sector and in particular the Aromatic, Flavourings and Cosmetics Industry and representative of the industry will discuss good practices in the light of the IR ABS.

Alien species management-2.

Presentation and discussion on management of alien species causing problems all over the world (the second part: involvement of local government, NGOs and private sector etc.).

FISHERIES AND BIODIVERSITY

The purpose of this event is to share the information on the most recent status of marine protected areas and other coastal conservation activities in Japan. Discussion will be made on governance mechanisms and socio-economic incentives behind several good practices. The role of coastal fishing ...

GRAINS OF WISDOM: FARMER INNOVATIONS, AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Presentation of community based management of agricultural biodiversity from different regions. Special focus on Community Seed Banks, and a launch of a report on Community Seed Banks.

Economic values for biodiversity & ecosystem services in real-life decision making

The economic evaluations of biodiversity and ecosystem services provide new powerful and useful points to argue in favour of biodiversity conservation. The event will look at different case studies to illustrate this power of figures and economic values during decision processes concerning biodi ...

Mountain Biological Diversity: Meeting the challenges of enhanced implementation of the programme of work

This side event will explore how to achieve enhanced implementation of the programme of work on mountain biological diversity by first identifying the constraints and challenges and then providing innovative examples and cases from governments, civil society, IGOs and the private sector which ha ...