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Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA-IAC)

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/DAIN/fd/84275 (2015-031)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities

Call for nominations: Equator Prize 2021

The UNDP-led Equator Initiative announces its global call for nominations for the Equator Prize 2021 on the eve of the Earth Day. This worldwide outreach effort aims to identify exceptional local solutions for climate, people and planet. Nominations are open through 10 May 2021.

Call for urgent action by the Aichi International Youth Conference on Biodiversity

Montreal, 7 September 2010 – The representatives of youth from 66 countries gathered in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, to build solidarity and discuss the importance of biodiversity, vital for survival of the next generation.

Calling all creatives: Biodiversity needs a global advertising campaign

We need a global advertising campaign that excites people to start safeguarding the Earth’s biodiversity on which we all depend and which we are currently losing at an alarming rate,” says South African scientist, Emeritus Professor Richard Cowling of the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience ...

Canada Post releases new stamps to raise awareness for endangered whales

Canada Post is hoping a new set of stamps will raise awareness of the plight of endangered whales in Canadian waters. The stamps feature images of five whale species currently considered endangered - including the orca, beluga and blue whale.

Canadians are worried about climate change, but many don't want to pay taxes to fight it: Poll

CBC News poll finds about half of Canadians unwilling to pay more to help the cause

Candid Animal Cam YouTube show Episode 4: Coatis

Every Tuesday, Mongabay will bring you a new episode of Candid Animal Cam, our new show featuring animals caught on camera traps around the world and hosted by Romi Castagnino, our writer and conservation scientist.

Canon Focuses the Lens on the Endangered Tamaraws and their Brave Protectors

Canon Philippines continues to strengthen its biodiversity conservation programs, partnering once again with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) – Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN). The partnership made possible a by c ...

Capturing the Climate crisis: the Evidence Project – in pictures

The Evidence Project is a photography-led campaign created by Britta Jaschinski, Keith Wilson and Arturo de Frías focusing on the impact of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the causes of viral pandemics.

Celebrating Biodiversity Day

Showing Cecilia Lam, Director of the world's first climate change museum “When the director alerted me that the Museum was celebrating 1 million visitors, I asked Cecilia Lam whether I could interview her ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversit

Central and Eastern European Regional Workshop on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

21 - 23 February 2006

Chelsea Clinton Shares Her New Picture Book, 'Don't Let Them Disappear' - EXCLUSIVE

Chelsea Clinton remembers the poaching crisis of the late '80s, back when she was a child. "I remember my mom [Hillary Clinton] and I in Arkansas, trying to learn whatever we could about what was happening and what we could do to try and help elephants," she tells Romper by phone.

Chelsea Clinton’s next children’s book will look at endangered species

Chelsea Clinton's fifth book for young readers will urge children to fight to protect endangered animals, the former first daughter announced this week on Twitter. "Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe" will be published on April 2 by Penguin imprint Philomel Books.

Children are forgetting the names for plants and animals

How nature-oriented was your childhood? Do you remember admiring flowers in full bloom, while chasing the butterflies and bugs hovering nearby? That may not be an experience shared by youngsters today. A recent UK study has revealed 83% of children between the ages of five and 16 can’t identify ...

China's Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

This event will provide updates on China's progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Information covers the distribution of biodiversity in China, China's national biodiversity conservation strategy and action plan, main actions carried out, biodiversity monitoring, assessment of progres ...

China’s first plant-based documentary series

“Humans settled near certain plants, and then those plants spread as humans migrated. Over the millennia the soybean has fed countless people; and without the mulberry tree, there would have been no Silk Road.”

Chris Packham urges TV makers to shout louder about nature crises

Wildlife and environmental TV programmes have “failed wholeheartedly” in the past to spark action on the climate, biodiversity loss and the growing human population, Chris Packham has told an audience of TV executives.

Citizen scientists to boost bushfire recovery activities

Members of the public are being invited to participate in a citizen science research program to boost existing bushfire recovery, data collection and monitoring activities for impacted wildlife.

Citizens of the world invited to participate in virtual conference and help to sustain life on earth THE VIRTUAL CURITIBA BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE January - March 2006 - <a href=http://2010.biodiv.org>http://2010.biodiv.org</a> ACHIEVING THE 2010 TARGET!

CURITIBA – 19 January 2006. Never before in human history has the rate of biodiversity loss been so great. The rate of loss of biodiversity now exceeds 100 times natural rates. For some experts we are on the eve of the greatest extinction crisis. Humans are changing environments to the poin ...

Clean Up the World

16 - 18 September 2005, Sydney, Australia

Cleveland Museum of Natural History expands role of planetariums with software update

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Dr. Nicole Gunter, has brought to life her vision to display biodiversity data on planetarium domes with the worldwide release of a new planetarium software plug-in. W

Climate Change Comic Aiming For a Better Future

Alert your little eco-warriors, as there is a new comic on the scene and it is taking on the biggest global challenge there is! HAPSIE is a comic strip that comes from the minds at renewable energy company, Clean Planet Energy. It is comic that is trying to inspire, educate and entertain young e ...

Climate Change and Biodiversity: theme for International Day for Biological Diversity 2007

Climate Change education to be introduced in Islamabad schools

Pakistan has announced to integrate climate change education in Islamabad schools to better equip young people to prepare for future climate challenges.

Climate change communication fundamental

A new climate change document will be fundamental in the future decision-making of about 70 Otago councils and organisations, Otago Regional Council staff say.

Climate change communication should focus less on specific numbers

What’s in a number? The goals of the 2021 United Nations’ climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, called for nations to keep a warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius “within reach.” But when it comes to communicating climate change to the public, some scientists worry that too much emphasis on a spec ...

Climate change news coverage reached all-time high, language to describe it shifting

United States news coverage of climate change reached an all-time high in October and November, according to recent data from the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO), an international, multi-university collaboration based at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Climate change: 'We're not perfect', says Marion Cotillard on Antarctica trip

Actor Marion Cotillard has travelled to Antarctica with Greenpeace to learn about how climate change, plastic waste and industrial fishing are damaging wildlife.

Climate change: An A-Z glossary of the words you need to know in the fight against global warming

Climate change affects everybody on this planet, so it is important to know all the terminology surrounding it. Here are some of the most important words and phrases:

Climate change: Don't let doom win, project tells worriers

A new project has been launched to address rising climate anxiety in students at the University of East Anglia.

Climatosfera 2100: El futuro en nuestras manos

Presentation and gaming session of the Development Education tool: Climatosfera 2100: El futuro en nuestras manos

College Students UN on Biodiversity Conservation

Students from all over the country would be representing one country each they learn about Biodiversity conservation, access, benefit and sharing.

College Untied Nations event on Biodiversity conservation.

Students will be encouraged to learn about country positions on various issues of biodiversity. College UN offers a platform to the students to get a first hand prospective of UN functioning as well as learning more about access and benefit sharing.

Colloque "Imaginons la Terre!"

3 November 2006, Montreal, Canada

Comedy wildlife photography awards 2021 – finalists

This year’s shortlist celebrating the joy of the natural world includes dancing bear cubs, a musical rodent and a giggling seal pup

Committed to biodiversity - Biodiversity in German International Cooperation (preliminary title)

The German federal government is committed to providing suitable financing to reach the goals of the Strategic Plan 2011 - 2020 of the CBD to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems and to support sustainable development in partner countries. In 2008 German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in 200 ...

Communicating about climate change: What's politics got to do with it

In the United States, climate change is controversial, which makes communicating about the subject a tricky proposition.A recent study by Portland State researchers Brianne Suldovsky, assistant professor of communication, and Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez, assistant professor of statistics, explored h ...

Communicating health issues in climate change

The health component is the most fundamental aspect of human well-being, but it is often ignored or back-grounded when talking about climate change impacts. This essential community of practice is not normally a favourite of journalists reporting on climate change issues

Communiqué : CNN International Spotlights Biodiversity.

Communiqué: Alarming Global Survey on Children’s Perceptions of Nature.

Communiqué: 500 Tunisian Schools to Join the Green Wave for Biodiversity.

Communiqué: Call for urgent action by the Aichi International Youth Conference on Biodiversity.

Communiqué: G8 Leaders Highlight Critical Importance of Biodiversity.

Communiqué: The Green Wave for Biodiversity in 2010.

Communiqué: The Green Wave to support forest rehabilitation in the devastated region of Tohoku, Japan

Communiqué: The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity at the service of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity

Communiqué: Winners announced: Young Hands Together for Diversity International Biodiversity Art Competition.

Communiqué: Winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity announced at the United Nations.

Communiqué: Young Talent Recognised in Global Photography Competition.

Community protocols and FPIC: Lessons from practice and challenges ahead

The Nagoya Protocol requires countries to support the development of community protocols for ABS by indigenous and local communities. This event will launch a new IIED publication: Biodiversity and culture: Exploring community protocols, rights and consent, published in association with Natural ...