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Latest developments of the Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM)

The purpose of this side-event is to highlight recent developments to on the central Clearing-House Mechanism and its information services. The side event will include a presentation followed by an online demonstration

Framing Biodiversity and Health in the Context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Keynote presentation followed by a multidisciplinary discussion panel on thematic issue areas included in the State of Knowledge Review on biodiversity and health (under COP 12 Agenda item 16). To be carried out jointly with WHO and several core partners who have co-led work for the publication ...

WORKSHOP FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF BIODIVERSITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITY MODELS ON ISLANDS

This event is an international workshop aimed at maintaining biodiversity and seeking new models for sustainable local communities on islands whose biodiversity is vulnerable to climate change, inflows of introduced species, and an increase of residents moving in from outside local communities. ...

RESEARCH FOR RESTORATION OF SOUTH KOREAN WALLEYE POLLOCK, THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA

Walleye pollock fishery was one of the largest fisheries in Korea. Due to a population decline since a dozen years ago, a project has been initiated to restore the fishery which provides only a total of one ton a year. The event offers presentations and workshops on the research findings.

THE 4TH WADDEN SEA-KOREA JOINT WORKSHOP FOR CONSERVATION OF TIDAL FLATS

Under the theme of “Contribution of intercontinental tidal flat conservation efforts between Korea and Wadden Sea to biodiversity conservation in last 5 years,” the workshop aims to urge government and civil society representatives to expand the partnership beyond the region.

Addressing a new and emerging issue: What is covered by the Cartagena Protocol and what not? And what are the socio-economic effects?

ACHIEVING THE AICHI TARGET 7 : BUILDING A GREEN ECONOMY WITH SATOYAMA-SATOUMI APPROACH

How to mainstreaming Green economy for achieving the Aichi target 7, overcoming the diverse values? This side event provides 2 cases with Satoyama-Satoumi approaches and 1 methodology for multi-stakeholder communication.Furthermore, we will also discuss life&work-style innovation in Satoyama-Sa ...

ICCAs and Aichi: The contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities to meeting the Aichi Targets

Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs), spread throughout the world, have significant contributions to make in meeting all the 20 Aichi Targets. These contributions are not currently adequately understood and recognised. With appropriate legal and other kinds of ...

Tackling common drivers of disease and biodiversity loss: a One Health approach

Human disease and biodiversity loss share common drivers, providing opportunities for cross-sectoral collaboration for co-benefits for health and biodiversity. For example, the overexploitation of wild fauna and flora places pressure on wild populations and threatens the health-supporting ecosys ...

EcoValores Mexico: Mainstreaming Natural Protected Areas´ ecosystem services within the development agenda

Mexico´s Natural Protected Areas (NPA) provide ecosystem services necessary to human wellness and key economic activities. However, multiple anthropic pressures and limited infrastructure, financial and human resources compromise their effective management and the provision of ecosystem services ...

Regional Seas @ 40: supporting CBD decisions for the next 40 years.

The side event will explore how the Regional Seas Convention and Action Plans Programme, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary and has supported CBD decisions since 1992, can strengthen its support in implementing CBD decisions in the coming years. As part of the 40th celebrations the Progra ...

Achieving the World Flora Online by 2020

This side event will outline progress towards the achievement of the World Flora Online, representing Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. The ways in which national bodies can contribute, access and use the World Flora will also be outlined.

Advancements and reflections on fulfilling National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) are the principal instruments for implementing the CBD at the national level. Aichi Biodiversity Target 17 states that by 2015, each Party has developed, adopted as a policy instrument and has commenced implementing an effective, partici ...

Biocultural Diversity in Cities: Mainstreaming policies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the context of Olympics Games

This side event seeks to contribute to the debate on implementation and effectiveness of the international regime on biocultural diversity at the local level. Firstly, it focuses on the relationship between nature and culture in cities and the role of culture in sustainability, particularly rega ...

TEEB for Agriculture & Food

The ‘TEEB for Agriculture & Food’ project will ultimately seek to provide a comprehensive economic evaluation of the ‘eco-agri-food systems’ complex. In so doing, the study will demonstrate that the economic environment in which farmers operate is significantly distorted by externalities, both n ...

LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE FOR WORLD NATIONAL PARKS & PROTECTED AREAS - The role and vision for sustainable development

o Purposes - To build a social consensus to urge the UN to designate "World National Parks and Protected Areas Day" - To strengthen the importance of National Parks and Protected Areas in achieving Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) - To refocus the role and direction of protected areas(natio ...

FORUM ON REINTRODUCTION OF ORIENTAL STORK IN KOREA AND JAPAN

Present the process of reintroducing oriental stork in Korea and Japan; Discuss the future directions of bilateral cooperation between Korea and Japan.

WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE BIODIVERSITY-ECOSYSTEM OBSERVATION SYSTEMS AND CONSTRUCTION OF INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM

○Discuss how to cooperate towards successfully achieving Aichi Targets and fully activating Biodiversity Observation Network (BON) across nations. ○Discuss the importance of EBV (Essential Biodiversity Variables) for biodiversity conservation /observation. ○Draw up measures to build an ecologica ...

RESILIENCE ASSESSMENTS AND INDICATORS - DIALOGUE

This event explores resilience principles that can be applied in undertaking assessments of social-ecological resilience at various scales, including the role of biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Methods for conducting resilience assessments, and possible development and monitoring of related ...

Monitoring indicators relevant to indigenous peoples, biodiversity and community-based monitoring systems (CBMIS)

The side event will showcase how selected indigenous peoples' communities crafted their action plans to address biodiversity loss, address poverty and mitigate and adopt to climate change. It will highlight the process undertaken to investigate specific indicators within a holistic perspective, ...

The Science behind GBO4 - Introducing the Technical Support Document

A number of chapter lead authors of the GBO4 technical support document will introduce delegates to the different lines of evidence used for the assessment of the state of biodiversity. They will also provide more detailed information on findings and country case studies related to specific targ ...

GEF ENGAGEMENT WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

This side- event will present an overview of the action undertaken by the GEF partnership with the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group in implementing the Principles and Guidelines for Engagement with Indigenous Peoples and future plans to enhance monitoring, financial arrangements, and capacity d ...

The Fift Overal Performance Study of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

This side event will include the presentation and discussion of the key findings, conclusions and recommendations of the Fifth Overall Performance Study of the Global Environment Facility: At the Crossroads for Higher Impact. The side event will address, among other topics the GEF performance in ...

Findings and recommendations of the High-Level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources for Implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Following the request from COP-11, through decision XI/4, the High-Level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources for Implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 will present the outcomes of its bottom-up research on the range of the costs of implementing the activities needed to a ...

THE GLOBAL INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES INFORMATION PARTNERSHIP

This event will provide updates on information resources developed by GIASIP partners and will demonstrate access to combined information from partners on invasive alien species (IAS) through the GIASIP Gateway (http://giasipartnership.myspecies.info/). Partners are sharing essential informatio ...

Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas in World Oceans

This event will update the results of seven regional EBSA workshops held in various regions around the world, convened by the CBD Secretariat together with various global and regional partners, involving more than 100 Parties and other Governments.

El rol de la mujer indigena en el sistema de gobernanza para el uso consuetudinarios de los recursos de la biodiversidad

Se presentaran estudios de caso sobre el rol de las mujeres indigenas en el uso consuetudinario de la biodiversidad.

TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Under the theme of “Traditional Agricultural Systems and Biological Diversity,” discussions at the workshop will focus on how the conservation of traditional agricultural systems can play a major role in activating the conservation of biodiversity and contribute to the COP12 goal and theme of "B ...

EFFORTS TO RESTORE ENDANGERED SPECIES, PROVIDE WILDLIFE HABITATS, AND ENSURE HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS

Share the experiences of managing rice paddies and enhancing their biodiversity to provide wildlife habitats for Japanese Crested Ibis and Oriental White Stork. Discuss how public services can support the restoration of White-naped Cranes and how partnerships among companies, universities, and ...

Aichi 2020 in Mongolia

To introduce and share National Biodiversity Action Plan and the Aichi Targets and the progress, results, success And challenges of implementation.

SCALING UP BIODIVERSITY FINANCE: - Outcomes of the Quito II Dialogue on the value of biodiversity for mainstreaming, financial mechanisms, and Safeguards

The Second Dialogue Seminar on Scaling up Financing for Biodiversity took place from 9-12 April 2014 in Quito, Ecuador. The conveners were the Governments of Ecuador, Norway, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, Uganda, the European Commission and the CBD Secretariat. Nearly 90 participa ...

Plant Conservation 2014: a mid-term review of progress towards the GSPC

This side event will feature the launch of a new report from the CBD Secretariat and BGCI on the current status of global plant conservation. The report provides details of the value of wild plants both to the global economy and to local communities. It also provides an assessment of the conser ...

GEF-6 BIODIVERSITY STRATEGY: SUPPORTING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BIODIVERSITY, 2011-2020

The side-event will provide an overview of the GEF-6 biodiversity strategy and programming opportunities for countries.

Mutually supportive implementation of the CBD/NP and ITPGRFA/MLS: capacity building for implementation (tentative title)

Panelist will present progress, experiences, plans and perspectives on mutually supportive national-level implementation of the CBD/Nagoya Protocol and the access and benefit sharing mechanisms pursuant to the International Treat on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

ValuES: Bringing theory to practice and implementing the ecosystem service approach: Inventory of Methods and country application to assess, value and integrate ecosystem services into decision making

“ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning and practice” is a Global Project on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Construction and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). In the side event ValuES will present and demonstrate an Inventory of ...

3D views on the rice paddy fields for wild biodiversity conservation - science, policy and business

Rice paddy fields are important habitat for wild species. Three speakers from different sectors(scientific society, government organization and business) will report on practical approaches to conserve biodiversity in rice paddy fields. <p></p> Programme <br> 13:15 Greetings <br> 13:20 Presentat ...

Conservation of Cranes’ Wintering Habitat in Korean DMZ area as Ramsar Site with special link to North-east Asian Crane Flyway

Korean DMZ area has been important wintering habitat for many migratory waterbirds, especially it supports several hundred birds of White-naped Crane (Grus vipio) and Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis) in North-east Asia. This event is aims to seek how to promote these important sites as intern ...

Biodiversity in rice-based farming systems - meeting the dual challenge of food security and environmental protection

This Side Event addresses recommendations from CBD COP10 in Nagoya, Japan, and RAMSAR COP11 in Bucharest, Romania. Based on experiences from several countries, it shows that the goals of food security and environmental protection are not only compatible, but synergistic.

Helping to implement the Aichi Targets - the UK's Darwin Initiative.

An event to highlight the work being done by the UK Government through the Darwin Initiative, a grant scheme which funds projects in developing countries to help them meet the Aichi targets. Showcasing a current project supporting the revision process of national biodiversity strategies and acti ...

Experience in the construction of the Raizeiras Community Protocol on the traditional use of the biodiversity in Brazilian and the right to free, prior and informed consultation

From the collective construction of tools for valuation, validation and protection of traditional knowledge on sustainable use and free access to local biodiversity to safeguard and secure the practice of traditional medicine in the local communities of the Brazilian Cerrado, the Articulação Pac ...

Testing the roadmap for risk assessment – lessons learned

Lessons learned from “The Eastern European Regional Course on Integrative Impact Assessment of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) under the Cartagena Protocol “Advancing LMOs assessment: Principles, Practice and Progress”, a course organized 3-8 February 2014, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. O ...

International Liability Regime for Biodiversity Damage: The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol

This side-event is an academic and policy-oriented seminar examining the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol (NKL-SP) adopted in 2010 in Nagoya, and intends to provide a forum for an exchange of information and views regarding its future implementation by the Parties. The speakers and pan ...

Towards Effective Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Southern Africa

RAEIN-Africa seeks to share observations and experiences on challenges and prospects with implementation of the CPB in southern Africa and further seek wide inputs into a capacity building project proposal on capacity building for LMO detection in support of biosafety decision-making.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES POLICY AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

○ Purpose : - To understand Industry Trends and the status of the Nagoya Protocol - To seek for ways to conserve biological resources, while pursuing sustainable industrialization ○ Organizer : CBF(Chuncheon Bioindustry Foundation), koreaBio (Korea Biotechnology Industry Organization) ○ Parti ...

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, THE NEW BREEDING TECHNOLOGIES AND LMOS – WHERE ARE THE GAPS IN REGULATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT AND HOW CAN WE ADDRESS THEM.

This side-event gives an updated overview of the many DNA based technologies currently in use or development. We will present the different technologies, including the new breeding and genome editing technologies and ask which of these are captured by the LMO definition, what is covered by risk ...

RISK ASSESSMENT AND DECISION MAKING ON GMOS INCLUDING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

We would like to discuss developments in GMO Risk Assessment and would like to highlight legal and scientific backgrounds, advancing risk assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as well as Socioeconomic Considerations in GMO Decision Making.

CropLife International Detection Methods Website

CropLife International and its members have made their detection methods for commercialized biotech-derived products — and related materials and information — available in an online and searchable database. A representative will present the website and share with participants CropLife member vi ...

Agricultural Biotechnology in Korea

In 2011, The world’s population reached 7 billion people, and by 2050 it will surpass 9 billion. This means farmers will need to produce 70% more food on less land than ever before. Crop protection products and plant biotechnology can improve yields to help farmers meet this goal. Biotech crops ...

Joint Report from South Korea and Japan Regarding GMO Contamination: Serious Threats to Our Local Biodiversity

This side event will explore our efforts to deal with GMO contamination in our respective countries. We will expose evidence of imported canola that is resistant to Roundup Ready and Basta, growing wild near harbors and along roads to food oil factories. Unless import of GMOs is stopped, testing ...

Agricultural Biotechnology Trends - What Opportunities for post-patent data access and stewardship?

The event will discuss the possibilities of accessing post-patents' data for genetically modified traits in crop biotechnology and the approaches that interested parties could use to ensure proper stewardship. This is particularly important for developing countries and public sector researchers ...