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Greening trade for biodiversity conservation

Trade, if managed under sustainable practices, can enable biodiversity conservation. This is what UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and its partners are promoting. Creating an enabling environment for developing sustainable businesses and fostering public-private sector engagement, while establishing S ...

HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE WITH THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE RIO CONVENTION AND FINANCIAL MECHANISM

HIGH LEVEL PLENARY MEETING ON THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY

HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY

The Himalaya, which represents youngest but complex mountain system on the earth, is still evolving, and it has been recognized amongst the 34 global biodiversity hotspots. The ecosystem components in the region exhibit great dynamism. The variations in topographical features along three dimensi ...

Health, Biodiversity and Traditional knowledge: Strengthening linkages

The side event will focus on mechanisms to advance self reliance in health and nutritional security at a local community level. Case studies will be used to demonstrate how available biological resources and specific knowledge within communities can be utilized for this purpose, through a proce ...

Heart of Borneo Trilateral Event: From Vision to Action

The main purpose of this event is to celebrate achievements in the Trilateral Implementation of the Heart of Borneo Initiative, launch their commitments to sustainable financing and joint support to REDD+ in the Heart of Borneo.

How GEO BON can monitor progress towards the CBD's goals and targets

The GEO Biodiversity Observation Network is an international partnership committed to improving access to biodiversity data and information that is critical for informed decision making. This side event will explore how GEO BON can support the CBD at both the national and global levels.

How Japanese companies work on TEEB, certifications, PES, offsets: Many cases presented by Nikkei BP EMF.

Nikkei BP's EcoManagement Forum (EMF) is a consortium of 170 large corporations which work hard on biodiversity. EMF is also partnered with Nikkei Ecology. a leding Japanese magazine of environmental issues in business. The member companies present many cases of their approach to biodiversity an ...

How the business sector is contributing to biodiversity in China

Leading businessmen in China will show cases of their action on biodiversity. Blive will introduce its platform role in promoting biodiversity protection work in China.

Hyogo Environmental NGO/NPO Symposium Resolutions

Global climate change is predicted to have profound effects upon ecological systems and human society. The conservation of biodiversity and its sustainable use are also challenges of great importance for mankind as means of addressing global climate change. To slow down global climate change and ...

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 ...

III INTERNATIONAL CAUCUS OF INDIGENOUS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATIONS AND PRACTICES RELATED TO GENETIC RESOURCES, INTERNATIONAL REGIME ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING, GENDER PLAN AND CLIMATE CHANGES ON THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

This event has as goal the capacity building about indigenous right on the subject to guarantee their participation on genetic resources, access and benefit sharing discussions.

ILCs Capacity Building Initiatives with a focus on LAC ILC 3 years capacity building strategy with the SCBD and the IWBN LAC region and the indigneous leadership programme of Conservation international.

Efforts to build capapcity of ILCs to effectively participate in international processes will be presented by IWBN (LAC region), SCBD and Conservation International (CI) and others.

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.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BIODIVERSITY ACT

The Government of India has enacted the Biological Diversity Act 2002. The Act provides for conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components, and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources and/or associated knowledge. The Nati ...

INSPIRING MARINE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: BEST PRACTICES AND NEW IDEAS FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION AND EDUCATION WITH THE WORLD OCEAN NETWORK

Educational organisations, aquaria, science centres, natural history museums, research centres, zoos, media and NGO are at the interface of different publics and very good vehicles for communication towards the public at large. Together they reach hundreds of millions of people each year. World ...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND BIODIVERSITY IN THE WIPO IGC: IDENTIFYING LINKS BETWEEN THE CBD AND WIPO

The Secretariat of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will update the participants on the text-based negotiations underway in the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) process (namely the renewed mand ...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADE AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: A SOUTH - SOUTH EXCHANGE

Capitalising on lessons learned from joint African and Latin American initiatives on promoting the pro-poor and pro-biodiversity commercialisation of biological and genetic resources, this session will highlight emerging good practices and pinpoint streams of action as to strengthen mutual suppo ...

IUCN-WCPA GLOBAL PROTECTED AREA PROGRAMME: IMPLEMENTING THE POWPA

The side event will present IUCN's views on how to enhance implementation of CBD/POWPA in a post-2010 context as a tool to strengthen protected areas planning and management for biodiversity conservation, sustainable livelihoods and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The side event will ...

Identifying Impacts and Planning Adaptive Management Responses to Climate Change in Asia and Africa

Presentation of the results of recent and on-going work that has examined the projected impacts of climate change on the distribution of birds and other biodiversity throughout Africa and Asia, and the resilience of the network of Important Bird Areas across the two regions. An Adaptive Manageme ...

Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Mountain Biodiversity: Regional Approaches

Jointly hosted by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Alpine Convention, the Carpathian Convention, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA), and the CBD Secretariat the event showcases successful implementation of the Mountain Biodiversity Progra ...

Implementing ABS in Africa

The ABS Capacity Development Initiative and its national and international partners present experiences and lessons learned while building capacities of African stakeholders to develop and implement national ABS regulations. Focus will be set on the enabling R&D environment for bioprospecting ac ...

Implementing innovative financial mechanisms in Environmental Funds portfolios

The event will present information on the Capacity Building project for Environmental Funds (EFs) led by RedLAC - the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds. RedLAC will present the new initiative, which has the main goal of strengthening EFs to implement innovative and sus ...

Improving PA Governance for Secure Livelihoods and PoWPA Implementation in Southern Africa

Effective and equitable governance is critical in helping to ensure that protected areas (PAs) meet their conservation objectives, while enhancing livelihood security of local people. Governance is an important element in the realization of CBD objectives, in particular within the Programme of W ...

Indicators Relevant for Indigenous Peoples

IIFB Working Group on Indicators work, updates since COP9

Indigenous Peoples and Protected Territories in Russia

Presentations from various regions of Russia made by indigenous representatives concerning the work in the field of protected areas, positive and negative outcomes of the process.

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

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 ...

InforMEA - A Collaborative Approach to Information and Knowledge Management by MEAs and UNEP

Twelve MEAs and UNEP are developing a joint portal called "InforMEA" to provide a gateway to MEA knowledge. InforMEA is able to harvest and aggregate information from MEAs and on international environmental law from a variety of different sources. With seed funding, a prototype of the InforMEA p ...

Integrated Financing Strategies for Resource Mobilization

The Global Mechanism (GM) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is assisting developing countries in the design and implementation of comprehensive strategies for mobilizing traditional and innovative financial resources for initiatives that contribute to the synergistic impleme ...

Integrating Biodiversity management into the building materials sector

The event will focus on what are the risks and opportunities related to biodiversity in the building material sector. The Biodiversity Management System, which has been proposed for Holcim by the IUCN-Holcim Independent Expert panel will be presented, followed by an interactive discussion on the ...

Integrating Religious Values and Greater Stakeholder Participation into Environmental Governance

Organised by VIVAT International, an international Catholic NGO, and the Institute for Social Ethics of VIVAT's affiliate, Nanzan University, a Catholic university in Nagoya. The panel of two Catholic religious and a lay member of an Anglican order will open the discussion on the need for a m ...

Interlinkage between REDD mechanism and Biodiversity conservation

The main objective of the proposed side event is to discuss how we can incorporate the concept of biodiversity conservation to the REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), namely as REDD+ or REDD ++ which is now key issue for the protection of pristine forest particula ...

International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Project

Signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding with CBD and presentations on DNA barcoding and the International Barcode of Life Project, a consortium of 26 countries for non-commercial biodiversity research.

International Wetland Awards

The World Wetland Network (WWN) is running a new international NGO wetland awards scheme and will be announcing the winners at the CBD CoP 10. Awards will be given for best practice in wetland management, best wetland restoration scheme, and highlighting wetlands at risk.

International Youth Work for Biodiversity

Youth from fourteen countries have drafted an International Youth Accord on Biodiversity. This side event will showcase the Accord, and highlight youth biodiversity projects from around the world with various speakers and multimedia presentations. It will also include a framework for youth rep ...

Investing in Biodiversity and Economic Prosperity: An Integrated Approach to an economically and environmentally prosperous Greater Mekong Subregion

In 1992, the governments of the six countries that host the Mekong River formed the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program, a platform for promoting investments in key priority sectors through stronger economic integration. As with economic development challenges, threats to biod ...

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 ...

LARGE-SCALE BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS - RESEARCH CENTRES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN SUPPORT OF THE CBD

Large-scale biological collections such as natural history museums and botanical gardens play a crucial role not only as centres of international biodiversity research, but also for providing expertise and relevant resources, and in building capacity for Parties to better fulfill their obligatio ...

LAUNCH OF A PRIMER ON "BIODIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT: SOUTH AFRICA’S LANDSCAPE APPROACH TO CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY AND ENSURING ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE"

Launch by South Africa’s Minister of Environmental Affairs, Minister Buyelwa Sonjica, on behalf of the Department of Environmental Affairs, in collaboration with the South African National Biodiversity Institute, supported by the United Nations Development Programme, of a publication aimed at a ...

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 ...

LIFE Institute Certification

Presentation of LIFE Certification for Biodiversity Conservation

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 ...

LOCAL BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY AND ACTIONS PLANS

Landcare International: Local Action-Global Progress

A gathering of professionals, practitioners and supporters of Landcare international initiatives. Landcare is a a community-based approach to natural resouce management, based on broad partnerships between communities, governments and the private sector to address key NRM and livelihood challen ...

Launch of ProtectedPlanet.net and the United Nations List of Protected Areas 2012

ProtectedPlanet.net is the newest initiative of UNEP-WCMC and IUCN to put digital information about national parks and protected areas at the fingertips of internet users globally. ProtectedPlanet builds upon the work achieved by the World Database on Protected Areas and adds new features focuss ...

Launch of Regional Seas Biodiversity Outlook

The session will launch Marine Biodiversity Outlook Reports in the 18 Regional Seas along with a Global Synthesis on Marine Biodiversity. These outlook reports provide insights into the current and future trends in marine biodiversity on a regional basis by utilising series of Pressure, State an ...

Launching of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative

Launching ceremony of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative with partners including national governments, international organizations, and NGOs. The Minister of the environment of Japan is expected to participate in the side event.

Local Solutions to Global Biodiversity Challenges

This side event is proposed in acknowledgement of the key role that local authorities play in assisting the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in achieving the objectives of the CBD, and their potential for vastly increased and facilitated involvement. The implementation of ...

Local communities within the context of the CBD

Local community representatives will present the case for greater involvement of local communities in the CBD. This event is linked to a major 8(j) decision.