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GEF SUPPORT TO BIODIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

This side event will highlight experiences acquired through the GEF’s programmatic approach to biodiversity conservation in West and Central Africa. Lessons and best practices will be presented. Delivering impacts in the field will be the guiding thread. Take home messages and recommendations fo ...

From International Year of Biodiversity to UN Decade of Biodiversity

International Year of Biodiversity 2010 has been successful in raising awareness on Biodiversity worldwide through many events and supporting materials. To link the success to implementation of the new strategic plan to be adopted in COP10, a global action plan for at least a medium range of 10 ...

Friends of the CBD: A multistakeholder participatory model

Developed through an MOU partnership between The Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) and the Secretariat of the CBD, The Canadian Friends of the CBD is a civil society multistakeholder association empowering civil society to take actions- while working collaboratively with federal government- ...

Facing the Challenges of Mountain Biodiversity Conservation and Management in Changing Climate across the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region

During the side event, ICIMOD aims to invite a high level delegation from its eight regional member countries namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. A panel discussion by the high level delegation is envisaged. ...

FUTURA Channel: a platform for education and community outreach in Brazil

Founded in 1997, as the first private TV channel in Brazil totally dedicated to education, FUTURA is committed to providing quality information and addressing the most challenging subjects in the agenda of the Brazilian society. Thus, a large portion of FUTURA’s programs aim at encouraging sust ...

FROM CARBON NEGATIVE TO BIODIVERSITY POSITIVE: A NEW PARADIGM FOR BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY? Merged side event: “Net Positive Impact: A New Business Trend” And “Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme

This side event aims to share information on actions by leading companies to ‘neutralise’ their residual environmental impacts and to introduce the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme. It seeks feedback from CBD delegates on what Parties and others can do to stimulate more companies to ...

FPIC: Experiences of Indigenous Peoples

The SEARCO and IPF, with support from Misereor conducted a two year project on FPIC aimed at learning from direct experiences of indigenous communities. The project looked at how FPIC was used by indigenous communities in securing their rights to lands and resources, including biological resour ...

FISHERIES AND BIODIVERSITY

The purpose of this event is to share the information on the most recent status of marine protected areas and other coastal conservation activities in Japan. Discussion will be made on governance mechanisms and socio-economic incentives behind several good practices. The role of coastal fishing ...

FINANCIAL MOBILIZATION FOR FOR FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Mobilization of financial resources on Forests and Biodiversity Conservation remains one crucial aspect in meeting the challenges of Biodiversity resource Conservation, poverty and hunger, climate change and improving lives of communities and forests users. Unfortunately several communities and ...

Experience in Implementing High Seas Marine Protected Areas

The side event will showcase the first successfully installed High Seas MPAs and the approaches organizations have taken for the establishment. From the North-East Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern Ocean speakers will present institutions’ responses to the challenges of protectin ...

European research supports international biodiversity governance

Research funded by the European Union contributes to international biodiversity governance in many ways. In this side event we present three such projects. The first shows how biodiversity conservation alleviates poverty in the highland regions of Asia. The second examines issues of scale in bio ...

European Capitals of Biodiversity

This side event is dedicated to biodiversity protection specifically on the local level. In the project "European Capitals of Biodiversity", over 300 local authorities in France, Hungary, Germany, Spain and Slovakia participated in national competitions on local biodiversity protection. During t ...

Establishment of the Pannon Seed Bank for the long-term ex-situ conservation of Hungarian plants

At the side event we intend to present the so-called Pannon Seed Bank Project started in January 2010. The main goal of the project is the long-term seed preservation of the wild vascular flora of the Pannonian biogeographical region in order to assist and complement in situ species conservation ...

Engaging the CBD to Build on Existing Biofuel Sustainability Initiatives

The primary objective of this side event is to demonstrate how existing biofuel guidelines and standards address ways and means to promote the positive and minimize the negative impacts of the production and use of biofuels on biodiversity. Additional objectives are to discuss the linkages to ot ...

Empowering people to identify, conserve and monitor areas of importance for biodiversity across the world

The BirdLife International Partnership will present, for the first time, a global inventory of over 10,000 terrestrial Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and their protection status. It will also highlight key aspects of its site conservation approach that involves working with local communities across ...

Emergency Marine Rescue Plan: Implementing the Roadmap to Recovery

Oceans are the least protected areas of the planet and progress is lamentably slow, with less than 1% of the world’s oceans given comprehensive protection. The current rate of protection means that there is little chance of the world’s governments meeting the 2012 target to establish a global ne ...

Ecosystem based management and adaption lessons from the Pacific

As part of the Pacific's celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)-Fiji and its partners will launch an Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) guide for the EBM practitioners in the Tropical Western Pacific, which is based on lesson learned from four ye ...

Economic values for biodiversity & ecosystem services in real-life decision making

The economic evaluations of biodiversity and ecosystem services provide new powerful and useful points to argue in favour of biodiversity conservation. The event will look at different case studies to illustrate this power of figures and economic values during decision processes concerning biodi ...

EcoFunds database – Monitoring Conservation Investments in the Andes Amazon Region

The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Environmental Funds - RedLAC - and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation present the Ecofunds Database, a georeferenced portal for monitoring conservation needs and investments in the Andes Amazon region. Ecofunds has tracked more than 600 projects and ...

East and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Information Initiative (ESABII)

Introduction of the goal and progress of ESABII, activities for the development of biodiversity information and taxonomic capacity building in accordance with 2010-2011 ESABII Work Plan.

EFFECTIVE BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM POLICY AND REGULATION – BUSINESS INPUT TO THE CBD

In response to the emerging reality of natural resource limits, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, business must anticipate new and changing policies and regulatory frameworks to be developed and deployed by governments to address these pressing environmental challenges. However, busin ...

ECOSYSTEM BASED VISION OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION FOR THE AMAZON BIOME

Demostrate progress in the implementation of the program of work of protected area in the Amazon Biome, as complementarity effort among the Amazonian countries’ national system of protected areas. The Ecosystem Based Vision of Biodiversity Conseration for the Amazon Biome has the goal of comple ...

ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF BRAZILIAN PROTECTED AREAS

To understand that protected areas are necessarily to be "untouched" is overpast. Most of the soil uses and natural resources exploitation allowed in brazilian conservation units - a type of protected area - suppose and enable those activities that contribute to the income and employment generat ...

Driving Innovation for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Asia and the Pacific

Innovative policy measures and local actions are key to promoting biodiversity/ecosystem service conservation and sustainable use of biological resources for environmental sustainability and human well-being. Panellists address key factors for driving innovation through enhanced macro-policy and ...

Drifting woods: the voyage from Eastern Africa to Nagoya

Climate change, a truly global challenge, has brought the strong interconnectivity of global ecosystems to the highest political agenda. Yet, in other environments, the understanding of global ecosystem functioning may be relatively well understood by scientists, sometimes recognized by Governme ...

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Use of Cameras and Audio/Video Recording Devices by Participants at Meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity

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Guidelines for the Participation of Representatives of Observer Organizations at Meetings of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Subsidiary Bodies

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Information Note for Participants (updated on September 20, 2010)

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Registration procedure from 04 October 2010.

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Discussion on IPBES

Discussion on IPBES

Discussion on Access and Benefit-sharing

Discussion on Access and Benefit-sharing

Design your tailor-made MAT! Presentation of a model ABS Agreement for non-commercial research with optional clauses and Launch of the report on the ABS program 2003-2010 of the Swiss Academy of Sciences

The Swiss Academy of Sciences presents the first of its kind ABS agreement on Mutually Agreed Terms, containing Model Clauses. The Agreement is adapted to the specific situation of non-commercial research sponsored by public funding. It contains a set of contractual clauses that intends to foste ...

Demystifying Community Protocols

Indigenous peoples and local communities are developing and using rights-based approaches to support endogenous development processes and engage with external stakeholders according to their own values, priorities, and customary laws. "Community protocols" are a rights-based approach referenced ...

Deadly Drivers of Change: Invasive Species and Climate Change Coming to an Ecosystem Near You

Separately, climate change and invasive species are two of the greatest threats to biodiversity and the ecosystem services upon which humanity relies. Combined their impacts will be compounded, potentially resulting in negative feedback loops with increasingly dire consequences. Fortunately, we ...

Current status on Biological Diversity in Iraq

Iraqi has become the 192th party to the Convention of Biological Diversity in 2009. Iraq has relatively rich biological diversity in the Middle East, but its importance was ignored for a long time. The session will introduce the recent progress and action plans in the field of biological diversi ...

Corporate ecosystem valuation – Business guidance and examples

If biodiversity and ecosystems are to be conserved, it is crucial to realize their true value. Yet, some of the most vital ecosystem services are also among the most difficult to bring to market. While the economic value of some ecosystem services is obvious, the value of other services is less ...