Resultados de Búsqueda

Nominations for the North Africa Regional Workshop of the UN-Water Initiative “Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies”, to be held from 17 to 20 November 2014, in Cairo, Egypt

Reference: SCBD/SAM/SS/ac/va/83888 (2014-117)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen

Nominations for the West Africa Regional Workshop of the UN-Water Initiative "Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies", 4 to 7 May 2015, Accra, Ghana

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SS/AC/84397 (2015-024)
To: CBD NFPs from: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal and Togo

Nominations for the joint workshop of the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity and of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification on synergies for the design, development and implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and National Action Programmes, from 21 to 22 November 2014, in Cairo, Egypt

Reference: SCBD/SAM/SS/ac/va/83889 (2014-118)
To: CBD National Focal Points

North Africa Regional Workshop of the UN-Water Initiative “Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies”

17 - 20 November 2014, Cairo, Egypt

North-East Asian Cooperation on Migratory Bird and Habitat Conservation

The North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) is an intergovernmental mechanism of six North-East Asian countries, supported by UNESCAP. As part of NEASPEC's Nature Conservation programme, it currently carries out field surveys and studies for conservation an ...

Oceans and Coasts at Rio+10: Assessing Progress, Addressing Continuing and New Challenges

3 December 2000 - 7 December 2001, Paris, France

On World Water Day, United Nations Report Demonstrates Role of Forests and Wetlands for Clean Water and A Healthy World

Montreal, 22 March 2010 – To mark World Water Day and highlight the linkage between biodiversity and clean water, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), today released Water, Wetlands and Forests: A Review of Ecological, Economic and Policy Linkages.

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/AC/88272 (2019-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations

Pacem in Maribus (PIM) 2002

8 - 14 December 2002, Cape Town, South Africa

Preserving the Yangtze River Basin's biodiversity

The Yangtze River Basin has unique biodiversity due to its distinctive geological history, topography and geographical location.

Press Release: On World Water Day, United Nations Report Demonstrates Role of Forests and Wetlands for Clean Water and A Healthy World.

Ramsar STRP Mid-term Workshops

20 - 24 July 2004, Wageningen, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

Ramsar Standing Committee - 29th Meeting

26 - 28 February 2003, Gland, Switzerland

Ramsar Standing Committee - 30th Meeting

12 - 16 January 2004, Gland, Switzerland

Ramsar Subsidiary Body, the Scientific and Technical Review Panel

8 - 11 April 2003, Gland, Switzerland

Researchers lay out plan for managing rivers for climate change

New strategies for river management are needed to maintain water supplies and avoid big crashes in populations of aquatic life, researchers argue in a perspective piece published today in Nature.

Rivers are the world’s heritage. Time to treat them as such (commentary)

This July represents a critical opportunity to protect rivers and the World Heritage sites that depend on them.

SPACE OBSERVATIONS FOR INLAND WATER BIODIVERSITY

Inland water ecosystems encompass one of the most threatened world’s habitats. In some areas, depletion and pollution of important water resources have gone beyond the point of no return. Demands placed by people on natural resources in and around inland waters, particularly the unsustainable us ...

Seafarming and Health Management Workshop

16 October 2002, Trieste, Italy

Second Meeting of the Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea

7 - 11 May 2001, New York, United States of America

Seventh Session of the International Seabed Authority

2 - 13 July 2001, Kingston, Jamaica

Sixth Session of the International Seabed Authority

3 - 14 July 2000, Kingston, Jamaica

Space agencies support to Ramsar/CBD for inland and coastal wetland observation and reporting

The overall objective of the Ramsar convention is the conservation and wise use of wetlands by national actions and international cooperation as a means to achieving sustainable development. According to the UN-CBD, inland water ecosystems are amongst the most threatened ecosystem types. Physica ...

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Water Day, 22 March 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Water Day, 22 March 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Water Day, 22 March 2024: Water for Peace

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2024

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: “Restoration. Land. Recovery”

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: “Restoration. Land. Recovery”

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Wildlife Day - "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet"

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Water Day Launch Event, 22 March 2010, Cali, Colombia

Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Water Day Launch Event, 22 March 2010, Cali, Colombia.

Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Water Day, 22 March 2020

Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Water Day – 22 MARCH 2021 – "Valuing water"

Statement of Mr. Braulio F. De Souza Dias. Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the 6th GEF-UNDP-IMO Research and Development Forum and Exhibition on Ballast Water Management

Streamlining and making more explicit the roles of the CBD and Ramsar Convention

Reference: SCBD/STTM/DCO/va/65040 (2008-125)
To: All CBD National Focal Points

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands acts as the CBD's lead implementation partner on wetland issues. This is implemented through the CBD/Ramsar Joint Work Plan. The current (4th) plan was endorsed by the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diver ...

Sturgeon population makes comeback after near extinction

After thriving for 200 million years, sturgeon were pushed near extinction by dams, pollution, and overfishing. Now they're rebounding around the U.S

Sustainable Management and Development of Mountainous and Island Areas

29 September - 1 October 2006, Naxos Town, Greece

Tanzania calls for joint actions to reverse environmental degradation of Lake Tanganyika

Tanzanian Vice President Philip Mpango on Thursday called on countries sharing Lake Tanganyika to take bold steps aimed at reversing environmental degradation facing the lake, the second-oldest freshwater lake in the world.

The 59th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

21 - 25 June 2021, Gland, Switzerland

The 7th Intecol International Wetlands Conference

25 - 30 July 2004, Utrecht, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

The 8th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention (COP-8)

18 - 26 November 2002, Valencia, Spain

The Chartered Insitution of Water and Environment Management (CIWEM) Annual Conference 2009 - Water and the Global Environment

21 - 23 May 2009, Toronto, Canada

The Current Situation and Biodiversity of Korea's Wetland

Biodiversity of Korea's Important Wetlands including the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project and the Reality of the Korean Government's Biodiversity Conservation Policies

The Fourth International Symposium of Water

3 - 7 June 2002, Cannes, France

The Global Conference on Oceans and Coasts at Rio+10: Assessing Progress, Addressing Continuing and New Challenges

3 - 7 December 2001, Paris, France

The International Workshop on Mainstreaming Wetland Biodiversity Conservation: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Practical Applications of Mainstreaming was organized by the GEF Wetland Project Office, State Forestry Administration, in Yueyang, Hunan province, China from 2 to 4 December, 2007. One of the main outcomes was the Donting Lake Declaration. (This news is provided for information purposes only and does not necessarily represent endorsement of any statements by the Secretariat of the CBD).

The U.N. World Water Development Report: The Modelling Workshop

11 - 12 December 2000, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

Mongabay published a four-part series on the peatlands of the Congo Basin. Only in 2017 did a team of Congolese and British scientists discover that a sprawling wetland known as the Cuvette Centrale spanning the border between the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) actu ...