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MEDITERRANEAN HIGH SEAS

Protecting and managing mountain ecosystems in the Alps and in the Carpathians - a case study of cooperation for mountain regions of the world

NATURAL PROTECTED AREAS IN THE REPUBUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: CURRENT STATE AND TRENDS

GOVERNANCE, PARTICIPATION, EQUITY AND BENEFIT SHARING— IMPLEMENTING ELEMENT 2 OF THE CBD PROGRAMME OF WORK ON PROTECTED AREAS

IUCN/TILCEPA and IIED invite indigenous peoples’ representatives, community representatives and CBD Parties representatives to explore key issues concerning the implementation of element 2 of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. This side event will discuss the governance innovations that ...

Biodiversity and coastal disasters: the 2004 Tsunami case study

BOOK RELEASE: TSRIPLING THE PACIFIC: THE CASE FOR A UNITED NATIONS MORATORIUM ON HIGH SEAS, INDUSTRIAL LONG LINE FISHING

Il Veliero dei Delfini

Parte la terza edizione del Veliero dei Delfini, la campagna promossa dal CTS Ambiente insieme al Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio ed in collaborazione con le Capitanerie di Porto. Obiettivo primario dell’anno 2005 è la salvaguardia della biodiversità mediterranea

Reference: SCBD/STTM/mr/49418 (2005-080)
To: CBD Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) adopted, at its seventh meeting, decision VII/31 on its multi-year programme of work up to 2010. In paragraph 3 of that decision, the COP decided that, at each of its meetings until 2010, it should assess the state of progress, including obstacles, in achievin ...

Recommendation 1/1

Implementation of the Convention and Strategic Plan

Recommendation 1/8

Framework for monitoring implementation of the Convention and achievement of the 2010 targets, and for review of the programmes of work

Multistakeholder consultative process to assess the need for an international mechanism of scientific expertise on biodiversity

The aim of this side event is to open the floor to the participants of the CBD-WGRI meeting and discuss a consultative process to assess the need for and feasibility of an international mechanism of scientific expertise on biodiversity. This consultative process is one of the follow up of the Pa ...

RSPB Chatham House Workshop on Implementation and Effectiveness

Presentation of outcome of workshop held in May 2005 with support from: the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development (France); the Ministry of the Environment, Denmark, Danish Forest and Nature Agency; and BirdLife Nether ...

Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge

This side event will provide an overview of the Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge initiative, which is a multistakeholder initiative that aims to more effectively engage business in the implementation of the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity. A presentation on the o ...

ISSUE BASED MODULES FOR THE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY RELATED CONVENTIONS

The 2010 biodiversity target makes efforts on synergy and harmonization among biodiversity related agreements important and urgent. Since different MEAs often relate to common issues, UNEP is developing issue-based modules on four crosscutting issues: Inland Water, Sustainable Use, Invasive Alie ...

Implementing the CBD: Experiences in Canada

Implementation of the CBD in a large and diverse nation such as Canada involves numerous government and private sector actors, and a variety of approaches. Biodiversity conservation has emerged as an important consideration for Canada’s natural resource-dependent economy. Sub-national governme ...

HUNGER OF SOY. THE OTHER FACE OF THE TRANSGENIC SOY IN ARGENTINAL

Reference: SCBD/EDM/DC/AB/50357 (2005-101)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Thanks to the generous support of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Ministry of Environment of Brazil, and the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development, a second informal “Business and the 2010 Bi ...

Reference: SCBD/EDM/DC/AB/50882 (2005-114)
To: CBD National Focal Points (those who submitted nominations)

This Notification serves to inform you that 10 experts have been selected from those nominated by Parties in response to Notification 2005-101, dated 15 September 2005, to participate in the second Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge meeting.

Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge

3 - 5 November 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/INF/23

Draft Outcome Oriented Targets for the Programmes of Work on the Biological Diversity of Dry and Sub Humid Lands, Forests and Mountain Biological Diversity

Recommendation XI/15

Options for the refinement of the framework of the goals and targets in annex II to decision VII/30

Environmental Valuation Databases and Benefit Transfer: Overview, Methods and Operational Issues

Presentation on environmental databases, their main accomplishment in natural resources valuation and main challenges in their maintenance and ongoing update

DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity

An information session that will provide background information on DNA barcoding and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL). Barcoding is the use of short standardized gene regions to identify species. It can be used in biodiversity research, regulatory enforcement and other application ...

THE 2010 BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS PARTNERSHIP : PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF THE GEF PROJECT

Remote sensing is a tool that could be used more widely to support biodiversity conservation decision making. A number of conservation NGOs have been working with NASA and UNEP to develop guidance for those working at the national level on how remote sensing could be used to assess progress in a ...

'Mountains to Sea': a tool for ecosystem-based, cross-biome, integrated implementation of the CBD.

Presentation of the 'Mountains to Sea' discussion paper and open discussion of its value as a tool for Parties to implment the CBD .

The Conservation Commons: Addressing Challenges of Integrating Biodiversity and Geospatial Data

Environmental degradation and habitat loss continue to accelerate. Solutions may be found to reverse this trend, but only with comprehensive data, information and knowledge on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Data access and knowledge sharing are not simple tasks, however. D ...

Update on the ISSUE BASED MODULES FOR THE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION OF BIODIVERSITY RELATED CONVENTIONS

The 2010 biodiversity target makes efforts on synergy and harmonization among biodiversity related agreements important and urgent. Since different MEAs often relate to common issues, UNEP is developing issue-based modules on four crosscutting issues: Inland Water, Sustainable Use, Invasive Alie ...

BioTrade: An incentive measure for sustainable use

The session will address three topics related to Articles 10 and 11 of the CBD: · Biotrade principles and the Addis Ababa principles · Biotrade and sustainability certification schemes · Biotrade and sustainable use plans

Consortium for the Barcode of Life Member Organization Business Meeting

Member Organizations of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) are invited to meet informally to discuss progress since the last meeting in London (8 February 2005).

Putting Article 10(c) into Practice: Protecting and Encouraging Customary Use of Biodiversity

A workshop to discuss and explore ways and means to further the implementation of Article 10 (c) of the Convention, which requires Parties to “…protect and encourage customary use of biological resources in accordance with traditional cultural practices that are compatible with conservation and ...

An integrated approach to the valuation and sustainable management of agrobiodiversity: Is it what the Doctor orders?

Following a review of the state of the art of valuation of the components of agrobiodiversity (crops, livestock, trees and aquatic genetic resources), an integrated research agenda is presented for discussion based on the hypotheses that: i) scientific research about agrobiodiversity can be adva ...

Sustainable Use Indicators: Needs and challenges

This Side Event is designed as a public forum to examine and discuss the needs and challenges faced in the development and application of indicators of sustainable use. The experience of the European approach to development of sustainable use indicators will be shared. Attempts at developing su ...

Whole Forest Observatories: A proposed Internaitonal Network for Monitoring Canopy Biodiversity and Global Climate Change

The UNEP Global Environmental Outlook and how it relates to CBD

Over more that ten years, UNEP has established a process for regular delivery of a peer-reviewed state of environment report, the Global Environmental Outlook. There is clear potential both for ensuring that this report and the associated process are of more direct value to the CBD, and for ensu ...

GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FOREST BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: RESULTS FROM THE GLOBAL FOREST RESOURCES ASSESSMENT 2005

Meeting of the GTI Coordination Mechanism

Closed meeting for current members of the GTI Coordination Mechanism

INFORMAL JOINT MEETING FOR PARTICIPANTS IN SBSTTA-11 AND THE 23 RD MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE OF THE UNFCCC. FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION PROVIDED BY ENVIRONMENT OF CANADA

The status of the world’s leading species-level biodiversity indicators: What will they tell us about biodiversity trends in 2010 and beyond?

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.

Moving from Rhetoric to Action on Adaptation

The World Resources Institute is bringing together experts from the climate, biodiversity, and development arenas for a new dialogue on helping people and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate.

"The Global Terrestrial Observing System and the Global Land Cover Network: mapping progress towards 2010"

The side event is structured to provide an opportunity for presenting and discussing GTOS and GLCN products and services with respect to CBD requirements within the framework of Target 2010. The Agenda of the Side Event is currently being finalised.

Conservation of Nordic Nature in a changing Climate

Seeing that e.g. -  plants bloom at an earlier time  the growing season is extended  butterfly species from more southern parts of Europe show up in the Nordic nature  the fishermen more frequent get tropical fishes in their nets  cold-water species like cod and plaice are reduced in numbe ...

SEFA, A user-friendly reference database on environmental follow-up

Just need a table (for flyers display and other informative material) and a panel for a poster. Material would be available in english, french and spanish.

V-GURTS (TERMINATOR) AS BIOLOGICAL CONTAINMENT TOOL?

Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target Message of Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, the New Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to Citizens of the World

3 January 2006<br><i>Montreal Canada

Development of an indicator for the direct measurement of the status and trends of indigenous and traditional knowledge

In accordance with Article 8j of the CBD, the 2010 Targets identify Focal Area 5, "Status of traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices" as one of the key areas for the development of indicators relevant to the goal to “achieve a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity l ...

Potential Impacts of Terminator technology - Genetic Use Restriction Technolgies (GURTS)

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property Rights: An Enabling Tool for Development with Identity

It reports some creative ways in which documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge can be carried out without losing community ownership over intellectual property rights. It also presents the general findings of the documentation, current and future uses of the documented knowledge, and how this ...

Illegal access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge

Presentation of videos regarding ilegal access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as well as the Andean Amazonic Iniciative against biopiracy

Biodiversity and local ecological knowledge : what lessons from the French experiences ?

Presentation of a collective book presenting some French experiences of TEK protection and promotion

The Protection of Collective Bio-Cultural Heritage/ La Protección Colectiva de Patrimonial Bio-Cultural

The aim of this event is to further explore the relatively new concept of 'Collective Bio-Cultural Heritage', an alternative, more responsive approach to developing international standards regarding access, use and benefit sharing of indigenous traditional knowledge. / El objetivo de este event ...