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African Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OH/MRe/56264 (2006-113)
To: CBD National Focal Points

In paragraph 5 of decision VII/12 on sustainable use, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to convene a series of technical expert workshops on ecosystem services assessment, financial costs and benefits associated with conservation of biodiversity, and sustainable use ...

African Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use Nairobi, Kenya, 11-15 December 2006

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OH/MRe/55441 (2006-087)
To: CBD National Focal Points from Africa

I have the pleasure to inform you that, with financial assistance from the Government of the Netherlands, the Secretariat is organizing the African Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use, to complement previous workshops in Moscow (30 May to 2 June 2005) and Buenos Aires (13 - 16 September 2005). ...

"You can count on Brazil to protect the biodiversity of our planet".

Speaking today in New York, where he was meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, hailed the decision of the President of Brazil, H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to place 6.4 million hectares ...

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/MR/52093 (2005-130)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Relevant organizations

The purpose of this notification is to invite Parties and relevant organizations to take specific action to assist the Secretariat in the preparation of a compilation of initiatives, processes and organizations that develop and consolidate indicators on the sustainable use of biodiversity, for c ...

Recommendation XI/13

Sustainable use: further consolidation of the work on the use of terms and on associated instruments

Seminar organized by Switzerland in the frame of the UN-EEC on environmental services and sustainable use of ecosystems

10 - 11 October 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use

13 - 16 September 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Reference: SCBD/I&O/CHM/DA/50346 (2005-098)
To: CBD National Focal Points CHM Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that members of the Liaison Group of the Biodiversity-Related Conventions have released a joint statement on the contribution of biodiversity to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The statement is entitled: “Biodiversity: Life Insurance for our ...

Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals requires the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

Montreal 12 September 2005 – World leaders and representatives of civil society attending the Millennium Summit in New York this week must take action to conserve and use biological diversity sustainably, and distribute its benefits equitably if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development ...

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/mr/50101 (2005-092)
To: CBD National Focal Points

In paragraph 5 of decision VII/12 on sustainable use, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to convene a series of technical expert workshops on ecosystem services assessment, financial costs and benefits associated with conservation of biodiversity, and sustainable use ...

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/RR/48849R (2005-068)
To: CBD National Focal Points from the GRULAC

In paragraph 5 of decision VII/12 on sustainable use, the Conference of the Parties (COP) requested the Executive Secretary to convene a series of technical expert workshops on ecosystem services assessment, financial costs and benefits associated with conservation of biodiversity, and sustainab ...

Central and Eastern European Regional Expert Workshop on Sustainable Use

30 May - 2 June 2005, Moscow, Russian Federation

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/RR/48849 (2005-062)
To: CBD National Focal Points from the GRULAC

With financial assistance from the Government of the Netherlands, the Secretariat is organizing the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Workshop on Sustainable Use. The workshop is tentatively scheduled to take place in Argentina, at the kind invitation of the Government of Argentina, from 13 ...

Reference: SCBD/SEL/ML/RR/48633 (2005-051)
To: CBD National Focal Points

In paragraph 5 of decision VII/12 on sustainable use, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to convene a series of technical expert workshops on ecosystem services assessment, financial costs and benefits associated with conservation of biodiversity, and sustainable use ...

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/RR/47101 (2005-033)
To: CBD National Focal Points Relevant organizations

The Secretariat organized an electronic forum in order to gather further comments and proposals on issues pertaining to use of terms for sustainable use, adaptive management, monitoring and indicators, which was informed to Parties through notification <a href="/doc/notifications/2004/ntf-2004-0 ...

Reference: SCBD/SEL/PD/45661 (2005-023)
To: CBD National Focal Points in Central and Eastern Europe

I have the pleasure to inform you that, subject to the availability of financial resources, the workshop for the Central and Eastern European region is tentatively planned to be held in the Russian Federation from 30 May to 1 June 2005.

Recommendation X/10

Agricultural biodiversity: further development of the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/14

Agricultural biodiversity: Further development of the international initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of soil biodiversity

Third IUCN World Conservation Congress

17 - 25 November 2004, Bangkok, Thailand

SCBD congratulates Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai

SCBD joins the rest of the world in congratulating professor Maathai.

Reference: SCBD/SEL/PD/43569 (2004-072)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Relevant organizations

Request the contribution and assistance of Parties, Governments and relevant organizations to the work of the Secretariat in response to decision VII/12 on sustainable use. Specific action required is outlined as: Information gathering and experiences, Technical expert workshops and Electronic ...

Peatland Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use

7 - 9 July 2004, Gansu, China

5th International Symposium on Tropical Biology

2 - 6 May 2004, Bonn, Germany

Statement by Dr. Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary, to the 19th Session of the Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF)

This address to the 19th session of the GBF, focuses on the theme of the forum: "Biodiversity and Prosperity" and identifies their fundamental and inseparable relationship.

Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biological Diversity: A Challenge for Society

1 - 4 December 2003, Berlin, Germany

Recommendation IX/7

Draft Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/23

Achieving sustainable management of tropical marine ecosystems: The action statement from the second International Tropical Marine Ecosystems Management Symposium (ITMEMS 2) and its relevance to the Convention on Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/5

Management of forest biodiversity, sustainable use to derive products and services, and benefit-sharing: compilation of the responses to the questionnaire on forest biodiversity submitted by Parties

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/9/ADD2

Sustainable use: Proposals for the prevention of losses caused by unsustainable harvesting of timber and non-timber forests resources

Statement by the honourable Lee Kah Choon, representative of Malaysia

Environment and sustainable development: Convention on Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/8

Sustainable use: Development of practical principles, operational guidance and associated instruments<br>Report of the Fourth Open-ended Workshop on Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/10

Incentive measures: Proposals for the application of ways and means to remove or mitigate perverse incentives<br>Report of the Workshop on Incentive Measures for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the components of Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/8

Ecosystem approach: further elaboration, guidelines for implementation and relationship with sustainable forest management

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/9

Sustainable use: Development of practical principles, operational guidance and associated instruments

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/3/INF/28

World transition: Ways towards sustainable management of freshwater resources (1977 annual report, executive summary, German Advisory Council on Global Change)

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/2/INF/20

Submissions by the Government of Sweden on biodiversity and sustainable agriculture

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/2/INF/4

Submissions received by the Executive Secretary concerning the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biological diversity

Equator Prize 2004 - Call for Nominations. The Equator Prize will recognize six local initiatives or activities that exemplify extraordinary achievement in reducing poverty through the conservation and sustainble use of biodiversity in the equatorial belt.

8 July - 5 October 2003, New York, United States of America

UNEP/CBD/EM-EA/1/INF/12

Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity

UNEP/CBD/WS-Sustainable Use/4/4

Report of the fourth open-ended workshop on sustainable use of biological diversity

International Day for Biological Diversity<br>Biodiversity and poverty alleviation – challenges for sustainable development

Montreal, 22 May 2003 – On the occasion of this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is reminding the world that, “Biological diversity is essential for human existence and has a crucial role to play in sustainable development and the era ...

Fourth workshop on sustainable use

6 - 8 May 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

International Workshop on Underutilized Plant Species

6 - 8 May 2003, Leipzig, Germany

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Visa letter from the Ethiopian Authorities

UNEP/CBD/WS-Sustainable Use/4/3

Compilation of case-studies on best practices and lessons learned from the use of biological diversity under the thematic areas of the convention

UNEP/CBD/WS-Sustainable Use/4/1/ADD1/REV1

Organization of work: Adoption of the agenda<br>Annotations to the provisional agenda

UNEP/CBD/WS-Sustainable Use/4/INF/1

World Summit on Sustainable Development - Plan of Implementation

UNEP/CBD/WS-Sustainable Use/4/INF/2

The sustainable use of biological diversity within the framework of the ecosystem approach

UNEP/CBD/WS-Sustainable Use/4/2

Practical principles and operational guidelines for the sustainable use of biological diversity

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Draft list of participants