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#846272011-12-19
2011-2020 United Nations Biodiversity Decade Launched in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Montreal, 19 December 2011 – A future of life in harmony with nature is possible, if the world takes action now. The United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB) was launched in Kanazawa, Japan, on 17 December 2011, in a ceremony organized by the United Nations University, in collaboration with ...
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#845992011-12-16
Rio+20 conference should capitalize on the values that forests offer to sustainable development
New York, 16 December 2011 - As preparations for Rio+20 continue at the 2nd Inter-sessional Meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in UN Headquarters and the International Year of Forests draws to a close, members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), are call ...
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#846002011-12-16
UN Decade on Biodiversity launched at Meso-American workshop on National Biodiversity Strategies
Montreal, 16 December 2011 – Costa Rica was the host for the launch of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity for the Central American Region, setting in motion a process to build a future of life in harmony with nature. In addition to the launch, 40 participants from nine countries attended ...
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#844432011-12-12
UN Biodiversity Chief Signs Memorandum of Understanding with World Future Council
Hamburg/Montreal, 12 December 2011. Today, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Future Council in Hamburg, Germany, in order to establish a framework of cooperation in promoting the implementation ...
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#843752011-12-07
Latvia becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress
Montreal, 7 December 2011 – On 30 November 2011, Latvia became the first country to ratify the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The first ratification comes just over a year after the Supplementary Protocol was adopted ...
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#839102011-11-21
Vanuatu becomes sixty-eighth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing
Montreal, 21 November 2011 – On 18 November 2011, Vanuatu, became the sixty-eighth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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#839172011-11-21
Scientific body of global biodiversity treaty adopts eight recommendations
Montreal, 21 November 2011 – At the first meeting of the Convention’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice since the adoption of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, held last October ...
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#838002011-11-16
Argentina becomes sixty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Montreal, 16 November 2011 – Yesterday, 15 November 2011, Argentina became the sixty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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#836832011-11-14
UNESCO launch of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity takes place in Paris
Montreal, 14 November 2011 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) joined with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to launch the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity at its headquarters in Paris.
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#836852011-11-14
Gabon becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources
Montreal, 14 November 2011 –On 11 November 2011, Gabon, became the first Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biologica ...
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#835352011-11-08
Expanding scientific expertise for implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 at the margins of the seventh meeting of Working Group on Article 8(j) and the fifteenth meeting of SBSTTA
Montreal, 8 November 2011– The opening reception of the fifteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), witnessed the continuing growth of the Consortium of Scientific Partners (CSP) to the Convention, as ...
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#835582011-11-08
CBD Secretariat and IUCN sign supplementary agreement for the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 regarding invasive species
Montreal, 8 November 2011 –At the margins of the fifteenth meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific Technical and Technological Advice, the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Global Director, Biodiversity Conservation Group, of the Inte ...
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#835202011-11-07
Scientific body of global biodiversity treaty discusses biodiversity indicators at Montreal meeting
Montreal, 7 November 2011 – Global experts are meeting this week to discuss ways to measure progress on the achievement of the Global Strategy for Biodiversity. Over 600 delegates are in Montreal for the fifteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice ...
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#835082011-11-06
Uruguay ratifies the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Montreal, 6 November 2011 – On 2 November 2011, Uruguay deposited its instrument of ratification of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and will become the 162nd Party to the Protocol on 31 January 2012.
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#834392011-11-03
United Kingdom releases a new biodiversity strategy in response to the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
In accordance with the commitment to develop an updated national biodiversity strategy and action plan, made at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, Japan, from 18 to 29 October 2010 the United Kingdom Department of Environ ...
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#833732011-11-01
Indigenous and local communities meet with governments to discuss traditional knowledge and the implementation of the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
Montreal, 1 November 2011— Representatives of indigenous and local communities from around the world are meeting side by side with delegates from Governments for this week in Montreal to discuss ways to integrate traditional knowledge related to biodiversity protection into the global Strategic ...
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#833462011-10-31
Benin becomes sixty-sixth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol and the thirty-sixth signatory of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress
Montreal, 31 October 2011 – Benin, on 28 October 2011, became the sixty-sixth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the thirty-sixth signatory of ...
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#832242011-10-26
Rio Conventions Pavilion helps raise awareness
Montreal, 26 October 2011 – Over the two weeks of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), held in Changwon, Republic of Korea, from 10 to 21 October 2011, more than one thousand partners and Parties discussed themes r ...
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#831972011-10-25
United Nations report identifies innovative solutions for resolving bushmeat crisis
Montreal, 25 October 2011 – A new United Nations report says resolving the crisis in the harvesting of bushmeat is possible if governments combine new management models, including community-based management, game-ranching and hunting tourism, with new mechanisms for monitoring and law enforcement.
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#830942011-10-21
Djibouti becomes sixty-fifth signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources
Montreal, 21 October 2011 – Djibouti, on 19 October 2011, became the latest country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), bringing the number of sig ...
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#830072011-10-19
Towards the Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea: The Living Ocean and Coast
Montreal, 19 October 2011 – The contribution of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea: The Living Ocean and Coast was discussed in Seoul on 14 October 2011 at a meeting between Mr. Samuel Koo, United Nations Co-Commissioner-General for the Expo, and M ...
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#829712011-10-18
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 ...
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#829692011-10-17
Regional workshop for Central Asia on updating NBSAPs
Istanbul, Turkey, 17 October 2011 – Biodiversity experts and officials from across the Central Asia region are meeting for the next four days to work towards implementing the Nagoya Biodiversity Compact at the Regional Workshop on Updating National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).
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#828792011-10-14
World Association of Zoos and Aquariums mobilized for the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
Montreal, 14 October 2011 – At its annual conference, and in a unanimous resolution, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) formally endorsed the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB) and decided to develop a framework to guide the participation of zoos and aquariums in the ac ...
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#828402011-10-13
In the Republic of Korea, the Rio Conventions Pavilion will showcase actions that address the problems of land degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change
Montreal, 13 October 2011 – As governments meet in the Republic of Korea to address the challenges of land degradation under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, global actors will meet at the Rio Conventions Pavilion to communicate their coordinated actions to stop land degr ...
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#828092011-10-12
Japan Airlines introduces United Nations Decade on Biodiversity logo on special “Eco Jet”
Montreal, 12 October 2011 – To symbolize its passion for living life in harmony with nature and to help raise biodiversity awareness, Japan Airlines (JAL) today announced at a press conference in Tokyo’s Haneda Airport that it has added the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB) logo to it ...
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#827352011-10-11
Hyderabad ready to host the world biodiversity community
Montreal, 11 October 2011 –The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, paid a working visit to India from 5 to 8 October 2011 to discuss preparations for the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and its sixth meeting serving a ...
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#827822011-10-11
United Nations University launches Master of Science programme in Environmental Governance with specialization in Biodiversity
Montreal, 11 October 2011 – A Master of Science (MSc) programme in Environmental Governance which includes a specialization in Biodiversity was launched in Tokyo by the Institute of Applied Studies of the United Nations University (UNU-IAS).
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#826072011-10-04
Regional workshop for Pacific on updating national biodiversity strategies and action plans celebration of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
Nadi, Fiji, 4 October 2011 – Biodiversity experts and officials from across the Pacific region are working towards implementing the Nagoya Biodiversity Compact at the Regional Workshop on Updating National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans being held in Nadi, Fiji, from 3 to 7 October and ...
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#824482011-09-29
The 132 Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China call for implementation of Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Montreal, 29 September 2011 – At their thirty-fifth annual meeting, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77, in adopting in New York on 23 September 2011 their Ministerial Declaration, recognized the important outcomes of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) t ...
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#824892011-09-29
Cooperating for nature: South Africa as a regional hub for South-South cooperation on biodiversity for development
Montreal, 29 September 2011 – The Government of South Africa, through its Department of Water and Environmental Affairs, and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further promote South-South and triangular cooperation on biod ...
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#824122011-09-28
Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 64 signatures
Montreal, 28 September 2011 – Cape Verde, Mozambique, Slovenia and Togo are the latest signatories to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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#823582011-09-27
Nature at the service of the noble objectives of the United Nations
Montreal, 27 September 2011 – Through the Convention Secretariat’s partnership with the Conseil Général de Moselle, marked apples have been produced with the logo of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity and offered to the signatories of the Convention’s Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic ...
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#823002011-09-26
Biodiversity Convention signs Memorandum of Understanding with UN-Habitat
Montreal, 26 September 2011 – The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and UN-HABITAT signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in New York last week on the margins of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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#823022011-09-26
Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 60 signatures
Montreal, 26 September 2011 – On the margins of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, six more countries—Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Grenada, Madagascar, Niger and Serbia—have become the latest signatories to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resourc ...
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#822482011-09-21
Future Policy Award crowns world’s best forest policies
New York, 21 September 2011. Rwanda’s National Forest Policy was proclaimed the winner of the 2011 Future Policy Award. The Gambia’s Community Forest Policy and the US Lacey Act with its amendment of 2008 received the Silver Awards. The three winning policies which most effectively contribute to ...
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#821722011-09-20
Modus operandi agreed by Rio conventions
Montreal, 20 September 2011 – The Joint Liaison Group of the Rio Conventions has agreed to mechanisms and procedures that will improve their coordination and therefore their contribution to sustainable development.
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#821742011-09-20
Aichi biodiversity heads of agencies task force established with 27 global partners
Montreal, 21 September 2011 – At a signing ceremony organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed with 27 of the largest international agencies, organizations and environmental conventions for implementation and achievement o ...
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#821752011-09-20
International treaty on damage resulting from living modified organisms receives four new signatures
Montreal, 20 September 2011 – Four countries—Belgium, Germany, Poland, and Portugal—today signed the Nagoya–Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at a ceremony held at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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#821782011-09-20
Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources achieves 54 signatures after seven months
Montreal, 20 September 2011 – At a signing ceremony organized in New York on 20 September at the margins of the high-level event on desertification of the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 more countries signed the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and t ...
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#821462011-09-19
The Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention joins forces for the implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Montreal, 19 September 2011- Demonstrating the continued and growing collaboration on the biodiversity and water agendas, Anada Tiéga, Secretary-General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, paid a visit to the seat of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ...
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#820132011-09-15
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 ...
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#820942011-09-15
The Preparation of the Global City and Biodiversity Outlook launched
Montreal, 15 September 2011 – In the context of the Second Meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities on Biodiversity, held in Bonn, Germany, from 4 to 6 September 2011, Stockholm University (SU), through the Stockholm Resi ...
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#818652011-09-08
Bangladesh becomes the forty-second signatory to the Nagoya Protocol
Montreal, 8 September 2011 – On 6 September 2011, Bangladesh became the forty-second Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biolo ...
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#818082011-09-07
Geneva Call for Urgent Action on the Implementation of the Successful Nagoya Outcomes
Montreal, 7 September 2011. On Saturday, 3 September 2011, the past, present and future Presidents of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed and signed, at their annual high-level meeting at Chateau Bossey, Switzerland, the “Geneva Call for Urgent Ac ...
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#815082011-08-24
The Society for Ecological Restoration confers its 2011 Special Recognition Award to the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Montreal 24 August 2011. The Society for Ecological Restoration has conferred its 2011 Special Recognition Award to the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the Gala Awards Banquet on 23 August 2011 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, on the margins of the 4th World Conference on ...
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#814092011-08-19
Biodiversity community comes together in Geneva to launch the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
Montreal, 19 August 2011 – In conjunction with the 61st meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Government of Switzerland, in partnership with the Japanese presidency of the tenth meeting of the Confere ...
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#813662011-08-18
UEBT and CBD sign MOU to help stop biodiversity loss
Montreal, 18 August 2011 – In the context of the launching of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that seeks to contribute to the i ...
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#811902011-08-10
Antigua and Barbuda becomes twenty-sixth signatory to the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol
Montreal, 10 August 2011 – Yesterday, Antigua and Barbuda became the twenty-sixth Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the first small island developing State, to sign the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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#811382011-08-08
Ninety per cent rate achieved in submissions of fourth national reports
Montreal, 8 August 2011 – Ninety per cent of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have submitted their fourth national reports. The Convention Secretariat has to date received 175 fourth national reports. Submitting a national report is an obligation that needs to be implem ...