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The Aichi Biodiversity Targets are 20 ambitious goals that make up part of the CBD’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, adopted by the parties in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture in 2010. The targets provide a framework for action for all stakeholders, including sub-national and local government ...
<p><b>Principal Presenters:</b></p> <p>Tomas Azcarate, President of the Institute of Responsible Tourism, Cipriano Marin, Vice Secretary-general of Insula (International Scientific Council for Island Development), and Paola Deda Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.</p> <p><b>M ...
CBD and SEMEIA are launching a publication on tourism concessions and partnerships in parks. The side-event and publication aim to mobilize stakeholders (park agencies and relevant networks) at the global level and to develop their capacity to work with the tourism sector, from training to tech ...
Presentation of Case studies from tourism and sustainable financing in World Heritage sites in Europe and Latin America
The UNWTO side-event will present the work undertaken by the organization on tourism and biodiversity such as a UNWTO background paper on tourism and biodiversity, the activities developed within the framework of the YDB and World Tourism Day (WTD) and other global initiatives relevant for bio ...
Acto will be presenting and discussing its Protected Areas Programm as well as its Tourism Programm, specially its Initiative Destination Amazonia Year 2009
In preparation for COP10, many civil society groups working around the CBD, facilitated by the CBD Alliance, joined together to identify the 10 most critical issues to be resolved at COP 10 from a civil society perspective. This side event will feature speakers from North and South, small and la ...
GMO ERA Project members will give presentations about scientific methodologies and teaching tools for environmental risk assessment and management of transgenic plants, in accordance with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and other international agreements.
“During this side event the CBD-Secretariat will launch a tool box with new training modules for NBSAPs, several sectoral and a cross-sectoral good practice guides for mainstreaming biodiversity into broader development and poverty reduction processes. The guides cover a wide range of fact sheet ...
UNU-IAS will present the tools it is developing on ABS. These include a pocket guide and a bioprospecting database.
From the rise of Synthetic Biology and new nanotechnologies to the introduction of climate-ready crops and next generation biofuels, for SBSTTA to fulfill its mandate requires a capacity for continual monitoring, reflection and foresight with regard to new technologies. In its latest foresight r ...
<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 ...
The theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity 2014 was "Island Biodiversity". Islands and their surrounding sea has often unique ecosystem connected to rivers and forests. They are rich in biodiversity, endemic and endangered species/subspecies. However, in islands and their coasta ...
This event will showcase two of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management’s latest flagship products: the recently-initiated process to develop categories and criteria for assessing the conservation status of ecosystems, and a new publication on ecosystems and climate adaptation – the latest i ...
The main objective of the event will be to present the experience of introducing the National Commission for the Sustainable Development of Peoples and Traditional Communities in Brazil as an initiative in the creation of spaces for the inclusion of indigenous peoples and local communities in th ...
The Arctic environment is experiencing unprecedented and rapid change from a variety of stressors that often interact in unpredictable ways. Understanding and responding to current and emerging concerns facing Arctic biodiversity requires coordinated circumpolar scientific information. Panelists ...
Jointly organized by the Global Youth Biodiversity Network and the CBD Alliance, the side event will focus on how engagement by youth, civil society organizations as well as indigenous peoples and local communities adds value to the CBD-process. It will look at ways and platforms for stakeholder ...
The presentations will highlight current trends in species level biodiversity, outline some of the major gaps in our knowledge, and discuss the type of policy relevant information the LPI and IUCN SRLI could potentially produce for the 2010 target and beyond.
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 ...
Outcomes of the January 2004 IUBS Conference. Presented jointly by SCBD and UNESCO
Analysis and experience exchange on the importance of Customary Law and its role in conservation and sustainable use of the biodiversity, as well as in the protection of the associated traditional knowledge.
Participants including donor countries/organizations and recipient countries/organizations will discuss the achievement and future roles of CEPF in implementing CBD.
Presentation on the results of the International Youth Conference on Biodiversity in Aichi 2010., which will be held from 21st to 27th of August. Youth participants of the conference will serve as presenters and will present their statement and action plans for their own future.
During this side-event, indigenous and local community organizations and experts will share their experience on repatriation of traditional knowledge and genetic resources. After they discuss how it will complement or not the effective implementation of the Nagoya Protocol. They will share infor ...
The history of the conservation of the once disappeared Crested Ibises in Japan, and the history and current status of their reintroduction.
The history of the conservation of the once disappeared Crested Ibises in Japan, and the history and current status of their reintroduction
Thanks to the variety of points of view and experiences that Federparchi and the other partner PAs have contributed with, a vast series of elements have emerged that have allowed the project to identify the “ingredients” that make the difference between a thriving PA and a PA trying to survive. ...
This meeting gives an introduction to emerging multiple layers of partnerships at international as well as local levels from diverse sectors including international organizations, local governments, NGOs as well as the corporate sector for conservation and management of biodiversity of the Yello ...
The result of the International Symposium on Domestic Measures to Implement Obligations under the Nagoya Protocol held 8 March in Tokyo will be presented. In addition, some ideas for effective implementation of the Protocol will be presented to seek any other ideas, opinions and inputs. Expect ...
The Event will present Friends of the Earth's views on the priority areas in the context of the upcoming CBD strategic plan and illustrate some of the core areas of work
1. Presentation of the the Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPOW), adopted by the Commission, at its Eleventh Regular Session and discuss the work plan for CGRFA-12. 2. Identification of possible country-led initiatives to support the implementation of the sectorial and cross-sectorial components ...
The completely revised and updated PoWPA web portal on the CBD website is unveiled with new functionalities including thousands of easily searchable resources and an e-curriculum on the PoWPA.
The European Commission has completed the new Soil Biodiversity Atlas as a contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity. The Atlas represents a major initiative to compile and disseminate information on soil biodiversity, its interaction with above-ground biodiversity, and other soil ...
This side event will feature a discussion about the need to include, in the definition of damage; the impacts produce by the technological package used in the GE crops, based on cases studies of RR soy plantations in the South Cone.
In this side event public researchers will present the rationale for and progress of public research on GMOs.
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 Japanese NGOs in marine fields(Marine and Coastal Biodiversity network-Japan, Nakatsu Waterfront Conservation Association, Kaimin Network, NPO Omotehama network, and Nature Conservation Society of Japan) would like to hold a side event for information exchange of status of coastal areas of J ...
The promotion of gender equity and equality has been pointed out as one of the key elements to sustainable development and poverty alleviation. An analysis of the importance of mainstreaming gender criteria in ABS process will be examine. Suggestions of practical ways of addressing gender issue ...
Achieving a viable balance between human use of marine living resources and conservation of marine biodiversity and habitats is essential to secure long-term ecosystem service delivery, including healthy and productive fish populations. This side event will present a report prepared by FAO,UNEP ...
The process of defining EBSAs around the World has begun with a number of regional workshops. This side event will address some of the lessons learnt from these first workshops and will look forward to the progress that can be made to realise the CBD 2020 Aichi Biodiversity targets.
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 lunch-time meeting will focus on the prerequisites for the effective regulation and sustainable utilisation of GMOs in a developing country. It will consist of three short (10min each) presentations covering aspects of a workable regulatory framework, sustainable GMO utilisation and South Af ...