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UNEP/CBD/IPA/SNGCOLA/1/2

Final Report

UNEP/CBD/COP/9/INF/10

Cities and Biodiversity: Engaging Local Authorities in the Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/EW.DCBI/1/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/EW.DCBI/1/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/EW.DCBI/1/1/INF/1

First Meeting on the Development of the City and Biodiversity Index

UNEP/CBD/EW.DCBI/1/2

First Meeting on the Development of the City and Biodiversity Index

UNEP/CBD/EW.DCBI/1/3

Report of the First Expert Workshop on the Development of the City Biodiversity Index

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Information Note for Participants

Second meeting of the Advisory Committee of Subnational Governments of the Global Partnership on Local and Subnational Action for Biodiversity

18 - 20 June 2013, Barcelona, Spain

Mediterranean Biodiversity Network: from ecological urban planning to management in the Mediterranean – subnational cooperation and knowledge transfer

15 - 17 May 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Local action moves the world: Cities as implementation agents

What are local governments already doing for biodiversity and how can their full potential be unlocked? By drawing from a series of local experiences as well as science-policy developments, this event will explore the local and urban dimensions of nature conservation. It will reflect on progress ...

Urban Eco-Efficiency

The world is increasingly urban. By 2050, another three billion people will inhabit the world’s cities—this equals to adding one new city of one million people every ten days for the next 89 years. 70% of the human ecological footprints are marked by cities. Despite only representing 2% of th ...

Press Release: Biodiversity Conservation can Improve Human Health in World’s Growing Cities, says UN assessment

Opening Remarks by Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Cities for Life Summit, Hyderabad, India, 15 October 2012

Cities for Life: Cities’ and Sub-national Governments’ Biodiversity Summit

15 - 16 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

Release of First Greater Hyderabad City Biodiversity Index

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is the local authority of Greater Hyderabad City which is the host city of CBDCoP-11. GHMC is also looking after the biological diversity elements of the city as per the provisions of the Indian Biological Diversity Act 2002 & The Andhra Pradesh B ...

Importance of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and celebration of the United Nations on Biodiversity at the local level

The Side event will share experiences and design implementation strategy for celebration UNDB in local level i.e. village, community and in student and youth institutions or organisations. The event also shows importance of celebration United Nations Decade on Biodiversity in local level. A shor ...

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/32

Report of the Executive Secretary on the Implementation of Decision X/22: Progress Made by National, Subnational and Local Governments

UNEP/CBD/SNG/1/2

Report of the Meeting of Subnational Governments in Support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

UNEP/CBD/COP/11/INF/45

Progress Report on the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity

"Cities for Life: City & Subnational Biodiversity Summit" A Forum for Local and Subnational Governments in parallel with the 11th meeting of Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 15-16 October 2012 - Hyderabad, India

Reference: SCBD/AM/OH/80589 (2012-117)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

World Cities Summit 2012: Liveable and Sustainable Cities - Integrated Urban Solutions

1 - 4 July 2012, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Press Release: Managing biodiversity data from local government: Guidance for local authorities on publishing through the GBIF network, helping preserve knowledge about biodiversity

Managing biodiversity data from local government: Guidance for local authorities on publishing through the GBIF network, helping preserve knowledge about biodiversity

Copenhagen, Denmark – Local governments around the world have a new tool to help share and use vast amounts of biodiversity knowledge collected in the course of their work.

Communiqué: Meeting of sub-national governments opens new chapter in implementation of the CBD

Meeting of Subnational Governments in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

24 - 27 April 2012, Curitiba, Brazil

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Third Meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity, Nagoya, Japan, 22 March, 2012

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Third Meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity, Nagoya, Japan, 22 March, 2012

Third meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity 2011-2020

22 - 23 March 2012, Nagoya, Japan

Communiqué: Global alliance of cities and governments to save biodiversity of the Mediterranean region

Global alliance of cities and governments to save biodiversity of the Mediterranean region

Montreal, 19 January 2012– For the first time, local authorities and representatives of government met in Montpellier from 17 to 19 January 2012 to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, including the 20 Aichi Targets, in the Mediterranean region. Eighteen countries from the ...

Report of the Third Expert Workshop on the Development of the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity, 11-12 October 2011, Singapore

Reference: SCBD/STTM/OH/fs/78394 (2011-235)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I would like to inform you that the final report and documents related to the Third Expert Workshop on the Development of the City Biodiversity Index (CBI), also known as the Singapore Index (SI), held on 11–12 October 2011, in Singapore City, Singapore, have been posted online at http://www.cbd ...

Colloque 2011 du CSBQ (Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec) / QCSB 2011 Symposium

8 - 9 December 2011, Montreal, Canada

Communiqué: City of Edmonton a model of local government support for the CBD

City of Edmonton a model of local government support for the CBD

Montreal, 18 October 2011 – In recognition of the need to complement Parties’ uptake of decision X/22 and the associated Plan of Action on Subnational Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity (2011-2020), the City of Edmonton, Canada, has formally aligned its own city-wid ...

Third Expert Workshop on the City Biodiversity Index (Singapore Index)

11 - 13 October 2011, Singapore City, Singapore

Communiqué:Cities and the United Nations pulling together for biodiversity: Global partnership meets in Bonn

Cities and the United Nations pulling together for biodiversity: Global partnership meets in Bonn

Montreal, 15 September 2011— At an international strategic meeting, held in the Old Town Hall, Bonn, on 5-6 September 2011, Bonn Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf invited the members of the Global Partnership on Local and Sub-Na ...

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Evening Dinner during the Second Meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-national Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities on Biodiversity, 5 September 2011, Bonn, Germany

Ecocity World Summit 2011

22 - 26 August 2011, Montreal, Canada

Implementation of the Plan of Action on Subnational Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/STTM/OH/cr/76469 (2011-122)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Pursuant to Decision X/22 on the Plan of Action on Subnational Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity, requesting the Executive Secretary to report on the implementation of the Plan of Action at future meetings of the Conference of the Parties and encouraging Parties an ...

Communique: Mayor of Montpellier, France, visits Convention Secretariat

Mayor of Montpellier, France, visits Convention Secretariat

Montreal, 8 June 2011- Serving as a reminder of the importance of translating international policy into local action, the Mayor of Montpellier, France, Madame Hélène Mandroux, paid a two-day visit to the seat of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Mo ...

First meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities for Biodiversity 2011-2020

17 - 19 January 2011, Montpellier, France

Local Solutions to Global Biodiversity Challenges

This side event is proposed in acknowledgement of the key role that local authorities play in assisting the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in achieving the objectives of the CBD, and their potential for vastly increased and facilitated involvement. The implementation of ...

Meeting on Parliamentarians and Biodiversity

25 - 26 October 2010, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the Occasion of the City Biodiversity Summit, 24 October 2010, Nagoya, Japan.

City Biodiversity Summit 2010

24 - 26 October 2010, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Cities, Local Authorities and Biodiversity: Improving cooperation for local implementation of the CBD

ICLEI, the SCBD and participants of the Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity will update delegates on the development of a plan of action to complement decision IX/28, and highlight examples of successul cooperation between national, sub-national and local governments

Cities and Biodiversity.

Presentation of Japanese approach on urban biodiversity conservation through urban policy by the national government and local governments, for example developing city parks, conservation of green spaces and promotion of urban greenery with participation of communities to contribute to discussio ...