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SWISS POLICY AND COMING LEGISLATION ON BIOFUELS BASED ON FULL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

SWISS EFFORTS AND INITIATIVES TO DEVELOPE TOOLS TO FACILTATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BONN GUIDELINES AND ABS AGREEMENTS

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Recent Biodivesrity-related Events in the pan European Region and the 5th Biodiversity in Europe Conference

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Progress in Implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) and Launch of the Plant Conservation Report

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plants and Climate Change - a call for action by Botanic Gardens Conservation International

A new report from Botanic Gardens Conservation International "Plants and Climate Change - a synthesis report" will be launched at this side event. The report highlights the fundamental importance of plants in supporting human livelihoods as well the role of plant diversity in both mitigating cli ...

Plant breeding - an industry using and generating biodiversity

Experts will explain in a few presentations how genetic resources are used and biodiversity is generated, in other words how plant breeding and biodiversity go hand in hand. Using examples they will illustrate how genetic resources for food and agriculture have moved around the world and the res ...

Plant Variety Protection Under the UPOV Convention

Pastoralism and Biodiversity

This event will highlight the role of pastoralists in conserving various aspects of biodiversity (domestic animal diversity, plant diversity, eco-systems and cultural landscapes) and discuss options for rewarding these environmental services.

PROTECTED AREAS: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF LAW

There is a vast array of studies and guidelines available regarding the management of protected areas (PAs). However, little has been done to accompany them by analyses of and guidance for supportive legal frameworks. It is increasingly recognized that national legislation play a critical role i ...

PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES (PES): KATOOMBA GROUP/UNEP JOINT EVENT TO LAUNCH THE PRIMER ON GETTING STARTED WITH PAYMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

KATOOMBA GROUP/UNEP JOINT EVENT TO LAUNCH THE MANUAL ON GETTING STARTED WITH PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES.

One Convention Family - Thousands of Species - Our Planet [OFFSITE EVENT - Langer Eugen (UN Campus in Bonn), 29th Floor]

Year of the dolphin: Active conservation of marine mammals Last hope for gorillas: A new agreement to ensure their survival Presentation of new Publication on Alien Species Launch of CMS of CMS Family Guide One further topic: Avian Influenza

OCEAN FERTILIZATION AND GEOENGINEERING - THE IMPLICATIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY.

Geo-engineering refers to the intentional, large-scale manipulation of land, sea and stratosphere by humans to bring about environmental change. One such proposed strategy is the dumping of iron, urea and other nutrients into the high seas to increase growth plankton as a means of sequestering a ...

Natura 2000 - Europe's practical commitment to the 2010 target

To celebrate and present recent progress in establishing Natura 2000, Europe's protected areas network contributing to the CBD programme of work on protected areas. Short interventions by high level representatives from the European Commission, host country Germany, EU Presidency Slovenia, NGOs ...

National System of Protected Areas (SNAP) in Ecuador

To present the experience of the SNAP in Ecuador

National Commitments and regional challenges: factors of success, things to avoid, and building the movement

National Alliances for Zero Extinction and the 2010 Targets

As part of the Program of Work on Protected Areas, the CBD has mandated national protected area gap analyses to assess how well protected areas conserve biodiversity, and where the highest priorities are for expanding and reinforcing existing protected areas. Additionally, the Potsdam Initiativ ...

Multifunctionality of the Forest, Biodiversity and Climate Change

Monitoring and sustainably managing forest biodiversity

The event will present and discuss efforts in assessing forest biodiversity and progress towards the Biodiversity Target 2010 and in conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity with special focus on the role of production forests.

Migratory Birds : Ambassadors for Biodiversity

Presentation of the World Migratory Bird Day in connection with the Wings Over Wetland project. Highlighting the significance of the Critical Site Network Tool.

Management Effectiveness of German National Parks -Quality Criteria and Standards

Introduction into the theme Power Point Presentation by EUROPARC-Germany Discussion with participants

Making Informed Decisions about Biofuels: The Role of Strategic Environmental Assessment

Making Benefit sharing work for plant breeding - Access, Conservation and Utilization

In this side event representatives of seed companies and related enterprises will share their experiences on the use of genetic resources and ABS legislation. Using the case of the SMTA of the ITPGRFA an example of how ABS can work will be presented. The event will be wrapped up by an open discu ...

Looking ahead to COP-10 for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas: WHat's working, what's not, and how we can improve it.

COP8 called for regional workshops to strengthen knowledge sharing and capacity for implementing the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. In response, a series of 9 regional workshops involving over 450 protected area practitioners were delivered in 2007-8. It is clear that a more comprehensive ...

Linnaeus Lecture