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Convention on Biological Diversity Launches Adaptation Website

Bali, 13 December 2007 – To promote efforts that will allow all forms of life on Earth to cope with climate change, the Convention’s Biodiversity Adaptation website was officially launched today by the Executive Secretary, Ahmed Djoghlaf and the Director General of Germany’s Federal Ministry for ...

Recommendation XIII/6

Biodiversity and climate change: options for mutually supportive actions addressing climate change within the three Rio conventions

Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Conference-Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Adaptation and Mitigation, Manila, Philippines, 19 – 20 February 2008

Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the Occasion of the International Conference-Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change in Southeast Asia: Adaptation and Mitigation, Manila, Philippines, 19 – 20 February 2008

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CBD Technical Series No. 25: Guidance for Promoting Synergy Among Activities Addressing Biological Diversity, Desertification, Land Degradation and Climate Change

List of Selected Participants for the International Expert Meeting on Responses to Climate Change for Indigenous and Local Communities and the Impact on their Traditional Knowledge related to Biological Diversity - The Arctic Region, Helsinki, Finland, 25-28 March 2008

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/ac/62607 (2008-028)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Indigenous and Local Communities

Thanks to the generous financial support from the Government of Finland, an international expert meeting for the Arctic region on “responses to climate change for indigenous and local communities, and the impact on their traditional knowledge related to biological diversity”, will be held in Hel ...

Call for comments on a proposal for terms of reference of a possible Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/lj/62957 (2008-035)
To:

At the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties noted, through decision VII/15 there are opportunities to implement climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in ways that are mutually beneficial and synergistic, and ...

Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening Press Conference for the 7th Session of the UNPFII, UN Headquarters, New York, 21 April, 2008.

Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening Press Conference for the 7th Session of the UNPFII, UN Headquarters, New York, 21 April, 2008.

Biodiversity: A Missing Link for Mitigating Climate Change - World Environment Day celebrated in Montreal.

Biodiversity: A Missing Link for Mitigating Climate Change - World Environment Day celebrated in Montreal

Montreal: 6 June 2008 –World Environment Day was celebrated in Montreal yesterday by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Montreal diplomatic community by the hoisting for the first time of the United Nations flag at the entrance to the Montreal World Trade Centre, w ...

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, at the G8 Dialogue Series convened by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University (UNU-IAS): “Climate Change and Biodiversity or the Unprecedented Planetary Environmental Challenge Facing Mankind”, Tokyo, 16 June 2008.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, at the G8 Dialogue Series convened by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University (UNU-IAS): “Climate Change and Biodiversity or the Unprecedented Planetary Environmental Challenge Facing Mankind”, Tokyo, 16 June 2008

European Community Members and Their Overseas Entities meet to counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss.

European Community Members and Their Overseas Entities meet to counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

Montreal, 11 July 2008. More than 450 participants representing 43 countries attended the first-ever international conference “The European Union and its Overseas Entities: Strategies to Counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss”, which was held from 7 to 11 July 2008 at Saint Denis on Reuni ...

Nomination of Experts for the Ad hoc Technical Expert group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/jg/64477 (2008-091)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change will be held from 17 to 21 November 2008 in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Request for submissions of information on experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/RH/64589 (2008-100)
To: Parties and other Governments, indigenous and local communities, and relevant stakeholders and organizations

I invite you to submit information on experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels as well as relevant information from research on, and monitoring of, the positive and negative impacts of the production and use of biofuels on ...

Meeting on "Climate Change and Biodiversity: Global Public Goods in International Cooperation"

11 - 15 August 2008, Bonn, Germany

Submission of views on ways to integrate biodiversity considerations in climate-change related activities

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/64561 (2008-106)
To: CBD National Focal Points

The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9), through paragraph B.13 of decision IX/16, requests Parties to submit views on ways to integrate biodiversity considerations in climate change related activities. These views will also serve to ...

In response to decision IX/16 requesting the Executive Secretary to summarize information found within existing documents on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity relevant for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries for transmission to the third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action, the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has made this submission available.

29th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

31 August - 4 September 2008, Geneva, Switzerland

First General Meeting of Caring for Climate (C4C) Signatories (UNEP DTIE)

1 September 2008, New York, United States of America

Reminder: Nomination of Experts for the Ad hoc Technical Expert group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/64477 (2008-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Reference is made to my earlier Notification dated 22 July 2008 with respect to the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change, to be held from 17 to 21 November 2008 in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland available at h ...

Nomination of Experts for the Ad hoc Technical Expert group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/64477 (2008-114)
To:

The first meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change will be held from 17 to 21 November 2008 in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I am pleased to invite organizations actively parti ...

Nomination of Experts for the Ad hoc Technical Expert group on Biodiversity and Climate Change.

Capacity-building Workshop for the Caribbean region for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, mainstreaming of biodiversity and the integration of climate change

Reference: SCBD/ITS/STTM/DC/JW/ac/mc/64688 (2008-105)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the Caribbean region, c.c. SBSTTA Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that a regional workshop for countries of the Caribbean region on capacity-building for national biodiversity strategies and action plans, mainstreaming of biodiversity and the integration of climate change will be held in Trinidad and Tobago, from 3 to 7 November 2008.

Online Dialogue on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/65050 (2008-126)
To: National Focal Points

The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change through its decision IX/16.

Selected Experts for the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/65087 (2008-133)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that after careful consideration of all nominations, the Bureau of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties have approved the list of experts for the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expe ...

World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Message from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Food Day, 16 October 2008.

World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Message from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Food Day, 16 October 2008

Statement by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the occasion of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, London, United Kingdom , 17 – 21 November 2008.

Statement by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the occasion of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, London, United Kingdom , 17 – 21 November 2008

First meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

17 - 21 November 2008, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis (TGICA) - IPCC

19 - 21 November 2008, Geneva, Switzerland

Conférence Africaine des Ministres de l'Environnement sur les changements climatiques pour l'Apres 2010

19 - 20 November 2008, Algiers, Algeria

On Monday, 1 December 2008, Robert Watson, Co-Chair of the first meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Biodiversity and Climate Change convened under the Convention on Biological Diversity and former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will present the draft findings of the first meeting of the AHTEG to the scientific advisory body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Nomination of Experts for the Second Meeting of the Second Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/66077 (2009-007)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the second meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change will be held from 18 to 22 April 2009 in Helsinki, Finland.

Nomination of Experts for the Second Meeting of the Second Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/66077 (2009-008)
To: Relevant organizations

I am pleased to inform you that the second meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change will be held from 18 to 22 April 2009 in Helsinki, Finland.

Opening Remarks on behalf of the Executive Secretary at the Regional Capacity Development Workshop for the Pacific on National Biodiversity Strategies, Biodiversity Mainstreaming and the Integration of Climate Change, 2 February 2009, Nadi, Fiji.

Opening Remarks on behalf of the Executive Secretary at the Regional Capacity Development Workshop for the Pacific on National Biodiversity Strategies, Biodiversity Mainstreaming and the Integration of Climate Change, 2 February 2009, Nadi, Fiji

Online Dialogue for the Preparation of the Second Meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/66678 (2009-028)
To: CBD National Focal Points

The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change through its decision IX/16. Furthermore, the Conference of the Parties, through paragraph 7(b) of annex III to ...

Selected Experts for the Second Meeting of the Second Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/66682 (2009-029)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that after careful consideration of all nominations, the Bureau of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice has approved the list of experts for the second meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and clim ...

International Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions

10 - 12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

UNFCCC: Seventh Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and Fifth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)

29 March - 8 April 2009, Bonn, Germany

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening Session of the Second Meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, Helsinki, 18-22 April, 2009.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening Session of the Second Meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, Helsinki, 18-22 April, 2009

Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

18 - 22 April 2009, Helsinki, Finland

30th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

21 - 23 April 2009, Antalya, Türkiye

Expert Meeting on Revisiting the Use of Managed Land as a Proxy for Estimating National Anthropogenic Emissions and Removals

5 - 7 May 2009, Sao Paolo, Brazil

World Ocean Conference 2009

11 - 15 May 2009, Manado, Indonesia