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Side Event
#1346
COP 9
2008-05-21

Policy-related indicators measure the effectiveness of the German National Biodiversity Strategy

Within this side-event we present a set of indicators forming an essential part of the German National Biodiversity Strategy. In a first presentation, Mrs Nickel from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) will introduce the key elements of the Bio ...

Side Event
#1525
COP 9
2008-05-23

Potential Impact of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies on Farmers Seed Systems

The Community Biodiversity Development and Conservation (CBDC) Network will present updates on current undertakings and projects on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTS) as biocontainment tool and will present results of participatory research done in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast ...

Side Event
#1412
COP 9
2008-05-27

Preparing for 'Sustainable Use' at COP10: the role of customary use of biodiversity in the implementation of the Convention.

While a lot of discussion has taken place concerning two pillars of the Convention (conservation and fair and equitable sharing of benefits) less attention has been given to the third pillar: sustainable use of biodiversity. Given the growing recognition of the linkages between biodiversity, hum ...

Side Event
#1415
COP 9
2008-05-21

Presentation of the postgraduate education programme "Management of Protected Areas"

Planning and management of protected areas are complex tasks and therefore demands on protected area managers are very high. This side event presents the unique MSc programme "Management of Protected Areas" of the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) in cooperation with international organisations ...

Side Event
#1395
COP 9
2008-05-23

Priority Areas for Conservation in the Amazon Biome: Experiences and methodologies.

The Program of Work on Protected Areas under the CBD (Decision VII/28, goal 1.1) emphasizes the need to complete gap analyses and to designate protected areas according to the national or regional gap analysis (including precise maps). Evaluation and identification of areas and priority actions ...

Side Event
#1506
COP 9
2008-05-29

Private Sector Leadership in Conserving Marine and Freshwater Biodiversity

The private sector is a primary user of marine and aquatic areas and resources – and is best placed to ensure ocean and lake ecosystem use is sustainable. This side event will highlight private sector initiatives that conserve and sustainably use ocean and freshwater biodiversity – and the needs ...

Side Event
#1277
COP 9
2008-05-22

Private Sector Proposal for Sustainable Agriculture: Replicate and Expand Winning Solutions

This event will highlight how plant breeding and integrated crop management, which combines good agriculture practice and technological solutions, offer the best hope for sustainable agriculture. The event will be staged as a contribution by the private sector to International Biodiversity Day.

Side Event
#1312
COP 9
2008-05-26

Private sector engagement in the cosmetic sector, verifying business conduct.

A trend is visible in the cosmetics sector towards more sustainable and ethical sourcing practices. More and more companies are committing to the objectives of the CBD and are greening their supply chains. Some pioneering companies have decided to submit their efforts to a new system of independ ...

Side Event
#1492
COP 9
2008-05-23

Protecting Biocultural Heritage

The side event will present the findings of a multi-country action-research project on protection of traditional knowledge and biocultural heritage, being conducted with indigenous and local communities. A video will be shown with clips from the case studies in Peru, India and China. Coorganised ...

Side Event
#1527
COP 9
2008-05-29

Protecting the Pacific High Seas Enclaves: The Need for Marine Reserves

The side event will highlight the importance and benefits of marine reserves in the high seas, using the case study of the Pacific, where a number of Pacific Island countries are taking action to safeguard their marine resources by calling for marine reserves in three distinct high seas areas wi ...

Side Event
#1621
COP 9
2008-05-26

ProÁrbol and the Climate Change

In 2007, Mexico’s Government launched the ProÁrbol program that grants economic supports and also in species for the sustainable advantage of the forest resources and the combat at poverty within the inhabitants of the forest, tropical forests and arid areas of the country. Mexico presents to ...

Side Event
#1209
COP 9
2008-05-19

Public Research on GM Trees: objectives and progress

In this side event, public researchers from different parts of the world will present their research on GM Trees and the objectives for that research.

Side Event
#1474
COP 9
2008-05-21

REDD versus People: Will Carbon Trade and Markets for Environmental Services Undermine Rights-based Biodiversity Conservation?

The side event will elaborate on the formal and informal outcomes of the 13th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and how they might impact forests and forest peoples. It will elaborate on the concerns of a large number of NGOs, IPOs and other social movements ...

Side Event
#1433
COP 9
2008-05-27

Rapid Review of Conservation Trust Funds

Issues that will be considered include: 1) A review of the purpose, role and monitoring and evaluation system of CTF; 2) CTF governance and legal and financial issues; 3) future roles and opportunities.

Side Event
#1356
COP 9
2008-05-21

Real World Experience in ABS from Sarawak, Malaysia

Various business sectors will describe how they use and create value from genetic resources, and the type of policy framework which will best stimulate research and development based on genetic resources.

Side Event
#1464
COP 9
2008-05-22

Recent OECD Work on the Economic Aspects of Biodiversity

Recent OECD work on the economic aspects of biodiversity will be presented. Presentations will focus on: the new OECD publication on the distributive issues related to biodiversity policies; the review of OECD country progress in the use of incentive measures to promote the conservation and sust ...

Side Event
#1304
COP 9
2008-05-20

Recent developments in the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Recent developments in the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Side Event
#1388
COP 9
2008-05-20

Regional Action Plan for the Amazonian Biodiversity [Closed Meeting for member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO)]

Presentar a consideración de los miembros delegatarios de los ocho países miembros de la Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica (OTCA) el estado de avance del PLAN DE ACCION REGIONAL PARA LA BIODIVERSIDAD AMAZONICA, y recibir comentarios y aportes, previos a la elaboración de la propu ...

Side Event
#1310
COP 9
2008-05-21

Regional Amazon Biotrade Program

Recognising the vast biological wealth of the Amazon Region, the eight Member Countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), with the support of UNCTAD and the Regional Amazon Program OTCA/DGIS/GTZ, have developed a sustainable development programme focused on the sustainable us ...

Side Event
#1227
COP 9
2008-05-21

Regional Challenges: Financing, lessons learned and growing the movement.

Lessons being learned in Micronesia, the Coral Triangle, Caribbean, and other regions abut the factors of success and viable mechanisms for designing, financing, and implementing regional country to country challenges. In collaboration with Parties and the Global Island Partnership.

Side Event
#1436
COP 9
2008-05-22

Regional cooperation on genetic resources in support of global processes : a Nordic approach.

Nordic genetic resources work within the framework of Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Genetic Resources Council is presented. It includes presentation of the new Nordic institution "Nordgen"as well as strategical polical matters related to plant, animal, and forestry genetic resources.

Side Event
#1429
COP 9
2008-05-20

Relation between the IMoSEB initiative and the MA Follow up

Presentation of the joint work conducted since November 07 and based on the IMoSEB consultative process results and the Follow up of the MA

Side Event
#1576
COP 9
2008-05-29

Resilience in a Dangerous Time: Farmer-led Climate Change Strategies

This event will showcase the experiences of Southern farmers and activists in using agrobiodiversity conservation and an ecosystems approach to small-scale farming as key climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. They will pay special attention to participatory in-situ seed conservat ...

Side Event
#1332
COP 9
2008-05-22

Roadmap to Recovery: Greenpeace's Plan to Save the World's Forests and the Climate

The Greenpeace side event will have three components. First, Greenpeace will identify recent trends in deforestation, including Indonesian case studies and mapping projects. Second, it will present an international proposal to halt emissions from tropical deforestation. Third, it will explain ...

Side Event
#1534
COP 9
2008-05-26

SCBD/LAB (ICLEI-IUCN) Side Event on "Cities and Biodiversity"

The side event will focus on the critical role of local governments in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Developments at the local level will be presented, such as results of the Curitiba Declaration on Cities and Biodiversity adopted in March 2007 in Brazil, and the ...

Side Event
#1468
COP 9
2008-05-28

SEBI 2010: a pan-European set of biodiversity indicators to measure progress towards 2010

This event will present the regional set of streamlined biodiversity indicators to measure progress towards the 2010 target, as well as the future plans for assessments based on the set. The event will consist of 2-3 short presentations, followed by an open discussion. Input from SEBI 2010 par ...

Side Event
#1485
COP 9
2008-05-20

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: THE IMPLICATIONS OF "EXTREME GENETIC ENGINEERING" FOR BIODIVERSITY AND THE CBD'S PROGRAMME OF WORK.

Enabled by the convergence of biology, computing and engineering, synthetic biology refers to new technologies that permit the design and construction of any specified DNA sequence, allowing the chemical synthesis of entire genes or genomes and synthetic life-forms. Working virus genomes have a ...

Side Event
#1204
COP 9
2008-05-21

Small-scale fishing communities: Perspectives on marine conservation and management

Studies undertaken in several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, on marine protectected areas and small-scale fishing communities, will be presented at this side event.

Side Event
#1241
COP 9
2008-05-26

Space supporting the RIO (UNCBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC), World Heritage and RAMSAR Conventions

Earth Observation (EO) from space provides the means to monitor globally trends in indicators of biodiversity over space and time. This side event highlights the overarching role of EO satellites providing critical information on benchmarks and indicators for the implementation of several United ...

Side Event
#1583
COP 9
2008-05-29

Sustainable Financing of the Taï National Park (PNT), Ivory Coast

After fifteen years of joint and successful conservation efforts by the “Office Ivoiren des Parcs et Réserves (OIPR)” and its partners (KfW, GTZ, WWF, WCF), securing sustainable financing of the Park management has become a major challenge for the “Fondation Ivoirienne des Parcs et Réserves (FPR ...

Side Event
#1425
COP 9
2008-05-23

Sustainable forest management in Europe.

The side event will demonstrate the achievements of SFM in Europe in support to biodiversity conservation. Regional approach to support implementation of the Expanded WP on Forest Biodiversity.

Side Event
#1521
COP 9
2008-05-26

Systematic Conservation Planning for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity

Conservation planning is the process of locating, configuring, implementing and maintaining areas that are managed to promote the conservation of biodiversity and other natural values. Many systematic methods for planning protected areas and other conservation actions are being proposed and app ...

Side Event
#1560
COP 9
2008-05-27

TWO PRACTICAL TOOLS TO HELP IN THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ABS: A FOLDER AND AN ELECTRONIC PRESENTATION TEMPLATE

This event will launch two new tools developed by the Quebec Government, and its collaborators, to help countries to implement policies on ABS at national level, especially in developing countries. These attractive colour tools, in English and French, are intended to be used by ABS focal points ...

Side Event
#1278
COP 9
2008-05-20

Technology transfer activities under the UNFCCC

The development and transfer of technologies play an important role under the UNFCCC. Lessons learned from the technology transfer activities undertaken sofar under the UNFCCC will be discussed, in particular in the areas of technology needs assessments, innovative financing and technologies for ...

Side Event
#1344
COP 9
2008-05-19

Teufelskralle goes public

A plant from the arid regions in southern Africa begins its journey through Germany. The African Devil's Claw is at the centre of a travelling exhibition that makes "sustainability" and "equitable benefit sharing" accessible through the use of interactive elements. The "Botanischer Verein zu H ...

Side Event
#1501
COP 9
2008-05-23

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership - Working together to track global biodiversity trends

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership (2010BIP) brings together over forty UN agencies, IGOs, NGOs, scientific institutions, Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and representatives of national governments to deliver and report on indicators measuring progress towards achieving the CBD 2 ...

Side Event
#1454
COP 9
2008-05-21

The 2010 Target: Experiences From Singapore

Singapore will share her experiences particularly on urban biodiversity conservation and the ABS regime in Singapore.

Side Event
#1460
COP 9
2008-05-22

The ASEAN Biodiversity: Its Significance in Maintaining Global Ecological Sustainability

Lecture forum on the significant role of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Region in maintaining global ecological sustainability. Despite occupying only three percent of the earth’s surface, 20 percent of all known species live deep in the ASEAN region’s mountains, jungles, ...

Side Event
#1432
COP 9
2008-05-29

The Alpine Ecological Network- a Contribution to the Global Network of Protected Areas

The Parties to the Alpine Convention started to set up an ecological network in the Alps approximately 10 years ago. Today this initiative is - together with the issues of climate change and the loss of biodiversity - embedded in a far reaching and overarching context and makes a significant co ...

Side Event
#1319
COP 9
2008-05-27

The Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil – world records of forest biodiversity but highly endangered hotspot – state of the art and what is to be done…

Presentation and discussion about the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil with government and social society representatives • Presentation of biodiversity features of the Atlantic Rain Forest • History and state-of-the art of deforestation and other threatens • Tendencies of natural regeneration an ...

Side Event
#1414
COP 9
2008-05-23

The Bern Convention: A tool for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in Europe.

To inform about the Bern Convention: its aims, main issues covered and key succeses, as an important framework for the implementation of international biodiversity obligations in Europe.

Side Event
#1431
COP 9
2008-05-26

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program

This workshop is intended to bring experts experienced in biodiversity offset design together with CBD government delegates to explore the potential of biodiversity offsets. Specific topics will include: 1) Reviewing emerging best practice on biodiversity offsets internationally; 2) Reviewing p ...

Side Event
#1347
COP 9
2008-05-21

The Clearing-House Mechanism: an update on recent developments and cooperation

The purpose of this side-event (jointly organized by SCBD, Belgium, Germany, Morroco, and the European Community) is to highlight recent developments and cooperation on the Clearing-House Mechanism. Several Parties will share their experience and a new version of the European CHM Portal Toolkit ...

Side Event
#1569
COP 9
2008-05-20

The Co-Operation On Health And Biodiversity (COHAB) Initiative

The COHAB Initiative Co-Operation On Health And Biodiversity is an international programme of work on human well-being and sustainable development. The side event is presented in cooperation with the Government of Ireland and the SCBD.

Side Event
#1606
COP 9
2008-05-28

The Darwin Initiative

A presentation on the UK's Darwin Initiative which assists countries that are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through the funding of collaborative projects which draw on UK biodiversity expertise. The event will expla ...

Side Event
#1520
COP 9
2008-05-21

The Ecosystem Approach

Information dissemination/knowledge sharing on Ecosystem Approach

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