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The Arguments for protection series aims to identify, and where possible quantify, a wide range of the benefits derived from protected areas in order to increase support for protection and strengthen management strategies. This side event presents the series so far and introduces a new tool for ...
Assessing and communicating how countries and programmes contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed development and conservation goals is a challenging task. Building on experiences with a poster generation tool to illustrate how the implementation of NBSAPs contributes to the 2010 ...
Presentation of the results of a trial run of a report card developed by WWF’s Protected Areas for a Living Planet programme. The card aims to give a rapid assessment of national implementation of the programme of work on protected areas. The results will be presented to participating countries ...
Envi Quiz 2012 with focus on Bio Diversity for school students
Presentation about the preservation, revitalization and promotion of Aboriginal languages in Canada as a vehicle for the protection of Traditional knowledge.
To inform and discuss current developments on ABS related issues in the Nordic countries.
Country studies were commissioned in 2004-2005 to find out what progress had been made in implementing ABS measures in Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia. The side event presents the updated detailed country reports on the institutional and policy framework for ABS in each country and identifi ...
Academic research is in various functions involved in access to genetic resources: basic research as e.g. taxonomic research which is essential for the conservation goal as well as research that might in some cases lead to the development of products. In particular for basic research rigorous A ...
Presentation of case studies prepared by Indigenous Peoples commissioned by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB).
Explanation of the use of genetic resources by the Biological Control Industry and the impact of the ABS IR
Ten research organizations held an international workshop on ABS in Non-commercial Research in Bonn, Germany in November 2008 (see http://barcoding.si.edu/ABSworkshop.html). This side-event will include a presentation of the workshop's findings and recommendations and an open discussion.
National Biodiversity Authority, India is currently implementing the first National Project on Access and Benefit Sharing under the UNEP-GEF-MoEF Project on “Strengthening the Implementation of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and Rules, 2004, with focus on its Access and Benefit Sharing Provi ...
While governments fiddle with false solutions like minor adaptations in patent law, biopiracy is growing unabated. All over the world new cases of shameless biopiracy have been reported over the past years. Addressing these problems requires a fundamental review of existing intellectual property ...
The ABS-CH team invites you to participate in a hands-on interactive training session on the Access Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House. The ABS Clearing-House (https://absch.cbd.int/) is a platform for exchanging information on access and benefit-sharing established by Article 14 of the Nagoya Pro ...
Though academic research contributes essential elements to the conservation, sustainable use and valuation of biological resources, it is often faced with challenges in accessing these resources. Some of these challenges may be attributed to the legal and administrative requirements for accessin ...
Advances in genomics and synthetic biology are combining with satellite and aerial imaging techniques that make it potentially possible to conduct three-dimensional assays of species density and diversity, via airplane, over large areas and for others, on the ground, to take single samples of co ...
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.
<p>In the context of access and benefit sharing discussions, outstanding speakers from China, Philippines, Ecuador, Malaysia, and the US make vivid the many faces and forms of biopiracy. Presentations focus on how bioprospecting, genetic research, and even apparently well-meaning NGO initiat ...
This is one of the five (5) workshops being organised by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) which has an Advisory Status to the COP.
Sharing of business experience concerning access and benefit sharing arrangements and the protection of traditional knowledge
As of August 1, the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) comprises 117 various members working on maintaining and rebuilding socio-ecological production landscapes around the world. At this event, some IPSI members will give some presentations to share the outcome of the ...
The Programme of Work on Protected Areas has some great success stories in implementation; some of which have come to light during the recent series of regional workshops on capacity building and review of implementation held from October to December 2009. In collaboration with PoWPA Friends, th ...
The Programme of Work on Protected Areas has some great success stories in implementation; some of which have come to light during the recent series of regional workshops on capacity building and review of implementation held from October to December 2009. In collaboration with PoWPA Friends, t ...
In partnership with the Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) and with the participation of selected parties of the CBD (countries participating still to be decided), Island Conservation describes how to prevent species extinction on small islands (Aichi Target 12) by removing invasive alien specie ...
The event will showcase progress in meeting the ambitious commitments made by Wet African countries at COP10 to expand their protected area systems and promote benefits to local people. The Nagoya commitments were followed-up with a donor roundtable meeting in 2011 with the Lifeweb Initiative an ...
Background: A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed in 2010 between the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), on the occasion of the CBD COP 10 held in Nagoya, Japan. The key purpose of the MOU is to identify ...
Australian APEC Study Centre, Monash University
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) was a prominent issue during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) latest Convention of the Parties (COP), which was held December 3-14, 2007, in Bali, Indonesia. One of the main outcomes of the Bali meet ...
Bringing the right areas under some sort of management regime is a crucial piece of the strategy for achieving the CBD’s objectives and several of the proposed post-2010 targets – namely targets 5, 11, 12, 14 and 15. This side event will showcase analyses of where the most important areas for pr ...
Both the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the international protected area community have hailed the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) as the most successfully implemented of the CBD programmes. A unique partnership between the CBD, civil society, NGOs, Par ...
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 ...
This side event will outline progress towards the achievement of the World Flora Online, representing Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. The ways in which national bodies can contribute, access and use the World Flora will also be outlined.
In accordance with its“Hyogo Biodiversity Strategy” the Prefectural Government is undertaking, together with people of Hyogo, NPOs and private companies, significant efforts, for example, in order to improve and revitalize the ecosystem of“Satoyama”, and use the outcomes and experiences of this ...
Climate change is quickly undermining the ability of laws and policies governing biodiversity to achieve long-term objectives. These laws generally assume that ecological conditions are static, at least within certain parameters. They may forbid translocation of organisms, provide management or ...
BirdLife will present the results of recent work that has examined the projected impacts of climate change on the distribution of birds and other biodiversity throughout Africa and the resilience of a network of over 800 Important Bird Areas across the region. An Adaptive Management Framework i ...
Worldwide, specific agricultural systems and landscapes have been created, shaped and maintained by generations of farmers, herders and forest peoples, based on diverse natural resources, and using locally adapted management practices. Building on traditional knowledge and experience, these inge ...
To present and discuss the Fisheries Expert Group's Scientific Workshop on "Governance for Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Interactions and Coevolution," held in Bergen, Norway, in March 2012. This meeting is organized under the aegis of the Fisheries Expert Group of the IUCN Commission on Ec ...
This side-event will highlight the key results of the Joint Expert Meeting on Addressing Biodiversity Concerns in Sustainable Fishery, held 7-9 December 2011 in Bergen, Norway, and discuss ways and means to apply the key conclusions of the meeting in effectively addressing biodiversity concerns ...
The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in its tenth meeting, requested the Executive Secretary to collaborate with FAO, UNEP, regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs), IUCN-CEM-FEG, and other relevant organizations, processes, and scientific groups, o ...
The National and International Level Recommendations towards a more Sustainable Use of Bushmeat will be addressed by SBSTTA as part of item 3.1.6 of the provisional agenda on the implementation of Article 10 of the Convention (Sustainable Use of Biodiversity). The review of implementation inclu ...