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Revitalizing the Ecosystem Approach: Lessons from Fisheries to Forestry

<br>In recent years a whole new set of environmental management buzzwords have emerged: ecoregional approaches to development, landscape approaches, the ecosystem approach, integrated catchment management, and community-based natural resource management. But many claim these are no more than fa ...

MCPAs and Networks for Biodiversity: Practical Applications of SBSTTA Recommendation VIII/3B

Protection of New Plant Varieties under the UPOV Convention

<br>The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is an intergovernmental organization, based on the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of December 2, 1961, revised in 1972, 1978 and 1991 (“the UPOV Convention”). The Mission of ...

Biodiversity & Business

What synergies can and should Parties and NGOs develop with the private sector? How can this work?

THE GEF'S MOUNTAINS PROJECT

CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY IN MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS

<br><b>Locale</b><br>Pan-Pacific Hotel<br>Ballroom C<br><br>Lunch will be provided

Rights and Access to Genetic Resources: Nordic Co-operation and EC Approach

<br><b>Programme<br><br> Words of welcome,<br></b> Peter Johan Schei, Directorate for Nature Management, Norway<br><br> <b>The Nordic Council of Ministers´ work in the field of biodiversity and genetic resources</b><br> Lise Lykke Steffensen, Nordic Council of Ministers <br><br> <b>A Nordic ...

Screening of the Documentary "Woods were lovely, dark and deep", a film on Biodiversity Conservation with a special focus on Access to Traditional Knowledge & Benefit Sharing

Workshop on Management Tools for Genetic Resources Access and Benefit-sharing Activities

New Tools for Conserving Inland Water Ecosystems

<br><b>LOCALE<br> LEGEND HOTEL<br><br></b> The programme will include the announcement of an major new Ramsar designation, and presentations of WWF's Managing Rivers Wisely, a book of integrated river basin management case studies and a new study on the economic values of wetlands. The discuss ...

Legal and Practical Issues in Development, Negotiation and Implementation of the ABS Regime

<br>This side-event will focus on the legal mechanisms for the creation and implementation of an ABS regime, that could be functional and effective at all levels (local, national, regional, international.) It is based on the outcomes and information developed in the first year of work under a p ...

Marine Biodiversity and Coastal Fishing Communities: Recognizing Rights and Defining Obligations

<br><b>Tentative Programme</b> <br><br> 18.30 to 18.45 hrs: Presentation by Anna Rosa Martinez I Prat, member of ICSF, on<i> Impact of TRIPS and CBD on Coastal Fishing Communities</i> <br><br> 18.45 to 19.00 hrs: Presentations on <i>Community-based Management Initiatives: Achievements and Chall ...

Tiger Conservation: Scenario of the World and Role of the Global Tiger Forum

<br><b>Principal Presenter</b> - Mr. S.C. Dey, Secretary General, Global Tiger Forum. <br><br> <b>Main Topic </b> - Scenario of Tiger Conservation over years – Role of Global Tiger Forum. <br><br> The presentation will cover worldwide historic distribution and shrinkage of tiger habitat an ...

Climate Change and Biodiversity: Report of the Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group

<p>The key results of the Report of the Ad-Hoc Group on Biological Diversity and Climate Change will be presented by several of the authors (Bob Watson, Habiba Gitay, Braulio Dias, and Horst Korn and Kanta Kumari) on the following topics:</p> <li>Biodiversity and Linkages to Biodiversity <li>Cl ...

Technology Transfer Beyond IPRs

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The Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) and the CBD Clearing House Mechanism

<br>The newly established international Secretariat for the Global Invasive Species Programme seeks to introduce its role, function and potential services to - and cooperation with - CBD member states in accordance to its mandate regarding Invasive Alien Species (IAS) from the CBD to become the ...

Biodiversity Loss and a Call for Action

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Land and Water Degradation and Persistent Organic Pollutants

<p>Reliable scientific knowledge is a necessary condition for informed policy formulation. Habiba Gitay, Ivar Baste, Walt Reid and Bob Watson will discuss four assessment processes that will provide critical information for all stakeholders involved in the conservation, sustainable use and equi ...

Indigenous Communities, Biodiversity Conservation and Capacity Building

<br><b>Locale</b><br>Pan-Pacific Hotel<br>Bilik Meranti Room<br><br>Lunch will be provided

Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Briefing on WIPO-CBD Cooperation

Biodiversity: its Importance to Human Health

Workshop on a Management Tool for Genetic Resource Access and Benefit Sharing Activities

Migratory Species conservation in the Seas of East Asia

Key Biodiversity Areas

<br><b>Key biodiversity areas</b> are places of international importance for the conservation of biodiversity through protected areas and other governance mechanisms. <br><br>This side event will help explain the key biodiversity areas approach, and how it is being used to determine priority sit ...

Sustainably Financing Protected Areas

<br>Financing protected areas remains a significant challenge to effective biodiversity conservation. There are, however, a number of tools and approaches now used to diversify and stabilize financial flows to protected areas. Based on the themes and outcomes of the Vth World Parks Congress Sust ...

Poverty Reduction and Ecosystem Services: the Role of Biodiversity

<br><b>Main Presenters:</b><br><br>Dr. Anantha Kumar Duraiappah, Mr. Thierry de Oliveira and Dr. Walt Reid <br><br> The session will be in two main sections. The first session will present the work done to date by UNEP on addressing Poverty-ecosystem links. UNEP has been over the last two yea ...

Critical Issues in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

International Treaty on PGRFA

EVALUATION OF THE GEF BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM

<br><b>Locale</b><br>Pan Pacific Kuala Lumpur Hotel <br>Biliki Meranti Room – Level 4<br><br> <b>Introduction by: </b>Claudio Volonte, GEF M&E Unit, GEF <br><b>Chair: </b>Dr. Holly Dublin, Lead Consultant on the Evaluation <br><br>The Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Global Environment Fa ...

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Informal Advisory Committee (IAC) of the CHM

GTI: International Response to Research, Capacity-Building and Networking

<br>Decision II/8 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity identified the lack of taxonomists as a significant impediment to the implementation of the Convention at the national level. The Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) was established by the Conference of th ...

The 2003 World Parks Congress and the WCPA Protected Areas Learning Network (PALNet): Implications for the CBD

Global Drylands Imperative: Challenging Concepts of Drylands Biodiversity

IMCAM and Marine Biodiversity

<br>In 2001 The Netherlands government initiated a consultative and participatory process aimed at providing practical guidance on better incorporation of CBD elements in both the design and implementation phases of IMCAM projects aimed at IMCAM practitioners. IMCAM approaches are recognised as ...

THE GEF PROTECTED AREAS

Conservation Finance

Wetlands, Rivers & Water: the Developing Ramsar Convention

Reflections on Biodiversity: A tri-national conservation effort in the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas

<br><b>BY INVITATION ONLY</b><br><br><b>Locale:</b> Pan Pacific Hotel, Ground Floor<br><br>This SSME side event will highlight cooperation towards biodiversity conservation between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion through the signing of a Memorandum o ...

Workshop on the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

<br>The Purpose of the workshop is two fold:<br> - To provide an interactive forum for parties and regional initiatives to deliberate on the ways and means for supporting national parties in the implementation of the strategy. <br> - To provide a platform for the relevant regional and internatio ...

Book Presentation on Genetic Resources Governance in Africa

<br>This event is jointly organised by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and the Southern Environmental & Agricultural Policy Research Institute (SEAPRI) to present a new book “African Perspectives on Genetic Resources: A Handbook on Laws, Policies and Institutions” edited by Kent Nnadozie, ...

Demonstration of resources and support available for people working in education and communication (Parties and NGOs) through CBD, CCCF, Ramsar, IUCN and related Web sites (daily)

CEPA DEMONSTRATION OF PORTALS

Protected Areas: Diverse Problems, Holistic Solutions

<br>Throughout the world, ancient forests are in crisis. Many of the plants and animals that live in these forests face extinction. Many of the people and cultures who depend on these forests for their way of life are also under threat. But the news is not all bad. There is a last chance to prot ...

Challenges and Opportunities in Nature Reserve Management in South China

<br>Dr Michael Lau, China Programme Coordinator, Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden. <br><br> South China is one of the hotspots for biodiversity. There are over 240 nature reserves covering 23,000 sq. km. However, like many protected areas in developing countries, they face many challenges. Most ...

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Protected Areas Categories: Speaking a Common Language

<br>The aim of this side event will be to inform governmental delegates at COP 7 of the relevance of the IUCN protected area management categories system to their needs, convey IUCN's message from the Vth World Parks Congress to the CBD re the categories, and to help dispel misconceptions about ...

Traditional Knowledge & Acces and Benefit- Sharing

Community Based Approaches for Understanding Ecosystems and Building Capacity among Participants

<br>The goal of this side-event is to give participants an understanding of resilience theory, panarchy, socio-ecological systems, adaptive ecosystem management and its application to ecosystem approaches to management of natural resources as developed by the Resilience Alliance (RA). These po ...