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The Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil – world records of forest biodiversity but highly endangered hotspot – state of the art and what is to be done…

Presentation and discussion about the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil with government and social society representatives • Presentation of biodiversity features of the Atlantic Rain Forest • History and state-of-the art of deforestation and other threatens • Tendencies of natural regeneration an ...

The Bern Convention: A tool for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in Europe.

To inform about the Bern Convention: its aims, main issues covered and key succeses, as an important framework for the implementation of international biodiversity obligations in Europe.

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program

This workshop is intended to bring experts experienced in biodiversity offset design together with CBD government delegates to explore the potential of biodiversity offsets. Specific topics will include: 1) Reviewing emerging best practice on biodiversity offsets internationally; 2) Reviewing p ...

The Clearing-House Mechanism: an update on recent developments and cooperation

The purpose of this side-event (jointly organized by SCBD, Belgium, Germany, Morroco, and the European Community) is to highlight recent developments and cooperation on the Clearing-House Mechanism. Several Parties will share their experience and a new version of the European CHM Portal Toolkit ...

The Co-Operation On Health And Biodiversity (COHAB) Initiative

The COHAB Initiative Co-Operation On Health And Biodiversity is an international programme of work on human well-being and sustainable development. The side event is presented in cooperation with the Government of Ireland and the SCBD.

The Darwin Initiative

A presentation on the UK's Darwin Initiative which assists countries that are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) through the funding of collaborative projects which draw on UK biodiversity expertise. The event will expla ...

The Ecosystem Approach

Information dissemination/knowledge sharing on Ecosystem Approach

The European pulp and paper industry is committed to enhance biodiversity

During the side-event, the European Forest Institute will present the results of an assessment of the impacts of biodiversity protection on the availability of wood for the industry. Protecting biological and landscape diversity has resulted in various protection regimes in Europe. At the same t ...

The Green Initiative Experience - Enhancing Biodiversity through Carbon Neutral Projects

Based on GHG inventory commissioned by private companies seeking the carbon free status, The Green Initiative developed a model, which foresees that the yearly GHG emissions will be offset through riparian forest restoration. Thus, these forests planted by TGI will, in a 30-year period, remove f ...

The ITT Initiative: keeping the oil in the ground

Present the proposal to keep close to one billion barrels of heavy crude in ground. The oil reserves known as Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini (ITT) would remain underground in exchange for intenational compensation of at least 50% of Ecuador`s forgone revenue if extraction had taken place.

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture - Implementing Farmers' Rights in Practice

At the side event, the organizers will present a workshop module on Farmers' Rights and the results of a sub-project collecting Farmers' Rights success stories. The side event will also mark the launching of the new Farmers’ Rights Legislation & Policy Database.

The MPA Network in West Africa: The Subregional Programme on Marine and Coastal areas Management (PRCM) delivering on CBD Commitments

Enable the countries of the PRCM region to use the opportunity of the COP 9 to showcase outstanding achievements towards the 2010/2012 targets of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA).

The Potential of the ARPA program in reducing deforestation and associated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon

An event in which the WWF and IPAM will present the conclusion of a study related to the potential of the ARPA Program in reducing deforestation and associated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon. The study includes an evaluation of the historical effect of ARPA Program in the management o ...

The Social and Ecological Impacts of Genetically Engineered Trees

An expert panel will address the impacts on forests and forest-dependent communities that would result from the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment. The panel will also look at the impacts of using GE trees as a feedstock for "second generation" cellulosic ethanol.

The Steppe and the Saiga: large-scale landscape scale steppe protection and species conservation – Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative

Steppes are the least protected ecosystem worldwide and under great threat. Kazakhstan once held large part of these natural grasslands. The Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative (ADCI) is a large-scale programme of the Government of Kazakhstan in partnership with the Association for Conservation ...

The Strategic HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

The side event will present the strategic HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan adopted last year by the nine Baltic Sea coastal countries and the European Community. It is an ambitious overarching programme of actions to drastically reduce pollution to the Baltic Sea and restore its good ecological sta ...

The Swedish Taxonomy Initiative - documenting and describing all multicellular organisms in Sweden

Learn about the challenge to find and describe unknown species and producing one of the largest encyclopedias of the world! The event will provide a presentation of a unique project with the aim to document all living organisms found in Sweden and to present them in the Encyclopedia of Swedish ...

The UN List of Protected Areas: Launch of a New System for National Authorities to Update, Edit and Add Information

This session will provide an opportunity for participants to view the newly redeveloped UN List of protected areas system (part of the World Database on Protected Areas, a joint project of UNEP and IUCN) built specifically for national authorities to provide data into the global system by reveal ...

The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee: State of Play, Future Prospects , Linkages with the CBD

The contribution of zoos to biodiversity conservation: the link between in-situ and ex-situ

Introduction to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) and their partners (like IUCN) in the worldwide "Amphibian Ark" campaign. Concrete case studies will be presented from Germany and Vietnam and information provided on the European zoos involvement in education and ex-situ conserv ...

The future of biodiversity, linking figures to landscapes and global to local scales

The future of biodiversity according to GBO2 and GEO4, the main causes, and policy options to achieve the 2010-target. The results will be visualised from figures into maps and into real landscapes, from global to local. A Powerpoint presentation combined with Googel Earth visualisation

The markets of biodiversity

Presentation of the research carried out at the French Research Institute for Development (IRD) on the market approach to biodiversity conservation, genetic resources and local knowledge.

The significance of the potato in relation to the CBD or, "mucho mas que un alimento..."

The potato; biological resource industrial feed stock, part of the Andean culture....Are these factors a help or a hidrance in the task of combating hunger and poverty? One of the themes of the CBD COP9 in Bonn is biological diversity for food and agriculture ( agricultural biodiversity work pr ...

Tools and resources for managing biological prospecting

UNU-IAS will present the tools it is developing on ABS. These include a pocket guide and a bioprospecting database.

Tourism and Protected Areas

Acto will be presenting and discussing its Protected Areas Programm as well as its Tourism Programm, specially its Initiative Destination Amazonia Year 2009

Traditional Knowledge and the International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing

Panel Discussion on traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and Access and Benefit Sharing

Training Session on Business and Biodiversity

Business, Biodiversity and Challenges

Trans-boundary Conservation and Conflict Resolution

The aim of this event is to find ways of implementing the CBDs program of work that pertains to transboundary conservation and the development of "peace parks" or other measures that use environmental cooperation as a means of conflict resolution. The event will build on the publication of a new ...

UNDP/GEF Support to Implementation of CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

The CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA), adopted at COP-7, is the internationally agreed path towards sustainable in-situ conservation, striving to reach a global network of representative terrestrial and marine protected areas by 2010 and 2012 correspondingly. UNDP/GEF/CBD project ...

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/1/ADD1/REV1

Revised Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/1/ADD1/REV1/CORR1

Revised annotations to the provisional agenda (Corrigendum)

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/1/ADD2

Draft Decisions for the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/1/ADD2/CORR1

Draft Decisions for the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Corrigendum)

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/10

Report of the Executive Secretary on the Administration of the Convention and the Budget for the Trust Funds of the Convention

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/11

In-Depth Review of Ongoing Work on Alien Species that Threaten Ecosystems, Habitats or Species

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/12

In-Depth Review of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures - Summary of views, experiences and options provided by Parties

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/12/ADD1

In-Depth Review of the Work on Incentive Measures - Synthesis report of information on incentive measures provided by Parties in the third national reports

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/12/ADD2

In-Depth Review of the Programme of Work on Incentive Measures (Addendum)

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/13

Follow-Up to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/14/ADD1

Updating and Revision of the Strategic Plan

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/14/REV1

Implementation of the Convention and Its Strategic Plan

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/15

Global Biodiversity Outlook - Considerations for the preparation of the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/16

Financial Resources and the Financial Mechanism - In-depth review of the availability of financial resources

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/16/ADD1/REV1

Financial Resources and the Financial Mechanism - Revised draft strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the Convention’s objectives

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/16/ADD2

Review of Implementation of Articles 20 and 21 - Draft message on biological diversity and finance to the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/17

Review of Implementation of Articles 20 and 21 - Review of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/18

Technology Transfer and Cooperation: Draft Strategy for the Implementation of the Programme of Work

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/18/ADD1

Exploring Possibilities of Developing a Biodiversity Technology Initiative, Taking Into Account the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI)

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/19

Programmes of Work - Progress Report and Consideration of Proposals for Future Action