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22 - 23 June 2011, Manila, Philippines
Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JSH/cr/76541 (2011-126)
To: CBD and SBSTTA focal points
In paragraph 9 of decision VIII/3, the Conference of the Parties urged Parties and other Governments that have not done so to establish national focal points for the GTI so that they can contribute to the implementation of the programme of work at the national level (decision VIII/3, paragraph 9a).
EnglishWith the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol, the ABS challenge has moved to the national level: all countries are called upon to design and implement measures that make ABS work in practice. This requires effective communication with a broad range of actors. The ABS Capacity Development Iniative is ...
Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JW/ac/76271 (2011-104)
To: SBSTTA Focal Points
I am pleased to invite you to provide input to the document being prepared for the fifteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) under the agenda items on ways and means to improve the effectiveness of SBSTTA.
English Spanish French17 - 20 May 2011, Marseille, France
Montreal, 10 May 2011 – Participants in the Central American Regional Workshop on Biodiversity and Finance in Support of the Nagoya Outcomes, held in Panama City on 4 May 2011, including national focal points for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (C ...
Montreal, 2 May 2011 – The South America Regional Workshop on Biodiversity and Finance in Support of the Nagoya Outcomes, held on 30 April 2011 in Cartagena, Colombia, gathered together, for the first time, focal points from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Global Environment Fac ...
Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JSH/75930 (2011-088)
To: The CBD National Focal Points and GTI Focal Points for the following countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, VietNam
I am pleased to inform you that a regional capacity building workshop for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) National Focal Points in ASEAN countries will be held in Manila, Philippines on 22 June 2011. The workshop will be organized by Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, i ...
English
Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/RH/75923 (2011-087)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, GSPC Focal Points
I am pleased to invite you to nominate a representative for the fourth meeting of the Liaison Group for the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA, 8-9 July 2011). The meeting will take place back-to-back with the International Conference: A global part ...
English Spanish French
Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/75599 (2011-075)
To: National Focal Points of the Convention, SBSTTA, ABS, Protected Areas, Clearing-House Mechanism
I am very pleased to bring to your attention the communication addressed to the GEF Operational Focal Points from Mrs. Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), with respect to the expanded and expedited access to GEF funding for enabling a ...
English Spanish French
Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/AS/74730 (2011-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points and ABS National Focal Points
In decision X/1, paragraph 20, the Conference of the Parties urged Parties to the Convention and other States and regional economic organizations to designate national focal points for the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP), in light of the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol ...
English French
Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/74730 (2011-051)
To: CBD National Focal Points and ABS National Focal Points
In decision X/1, paragraph 20, the Conference of the Parties urged Parties to the Convention and other States and regional economic organizations to designate national focal points for the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol (ICNP), in light of the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol ...
English Spanish FrenchMontreal, 22 February 2011: The Central African national focal points for the Convention on Biological Diversity and those of its financial arm, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), jointly attended a regional workshop on biodiversity and finance, held in Kinshasa in collaboration with the GEF ...
Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2011-025)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Parties without a PoWPA Focal Point
With reference to paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) vide original notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008 (also translated into Spanish https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/ ...
English
Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/74730 (2011-008)
To: CBD National Focal Points and ABS National Focal Points
As indicated in the letter to Ministers of the Environment (2010-220), dated 17 December, 2010, in decision X/1, paragraph 20, the Conference of the Parties urged Parties to the Convention and other States and regional economic organizations to designate national focal points for the Intergovern ...
English Spanish French28 - 30 December 2010, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Reference: SCBD/ABS/VN/SG/74557 (2010-220)
To: Ministers of the Environment of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the European Commissioner for the Environment
In decision X/1 of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan from 18 to 29 October 2010, Parties to the Convention and other States and regional economic integration organizations were urged to “designate ...
English Spanish French13 - 17 December 2010, Saint-Leu, France
Montreal 3 December 2010. With the slogan “Biodiversity is Life. Biodiversity is our Life”, the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) won the coveted 2010 Green Award for best Global Campaign in recognition of the strength of a campaign that inspired activities throughout the ...
C'est une réunion pour les Ministres et les Chefs des Délégations Francophones pour l'échange autour des enjeux liés aux points inscrits sur l'agenda des négociations à la CdP 10
Power point presentation of our work in Toyooka, Japan, by mayor of Toyooka and panel presentation. If possible, "Onigiri" rice ball made from Organic rice will be distributed to participants.
Global climate change is predicted to have profound effects upon ecological systems and human society. The conservation of biodiversity and its sustainable use are also challenges of great importance for mankind as means of addressing global climate change. To slow down global climate change and ...
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 ...
The overall objective of the Ramsar convention is the conservation and wise use of wetlands by national actions and international cooperation as a means to achieving sustainable development. According to the UN-CBD, inland water ecosystems are amongst the most threatened ecosystem types. Physica ...
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 ...
The Middle East, located at the juncture of three continents - Europe, Asia and Africa – is a region almost second to none in the world for tracking, researching and studying bird migration. The Middle East is a “bottle neck” for the migration from Europe and Asia to Africa and back. Once many ...
Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/74216 (2010-198)
To: All CBD Focal Points
Reference is made to the High Level Segment of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties that will take place from 27 to 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan. The CBD National Focal Points are kindly requested to urgently send the list of delegates accompanying the Ministers to the High Lev ...
English SpanishTwelve MEAs and UNEP are developing a joint portal called "InforMEA" to provide a gateway to MEA knowledge. InforMEA is able to harvest and aggregate information from MEAs and on international environmental law from a variety of different sources. With seed funding, a prototype of the InforMEA p ...
Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-151)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Parties without a PoWPA Focal Point
With reference to paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) vide original notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008 (also translated into Spanish https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/ ...
English1 - 16 August 2010, Cornwall, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Reference: SCBD/BCH/GF/ABw/72371 (2010-144)
To: CPB Focal Points, BCH Focal Points
I am pleased to announce that the Secretariat, in collaboration with and support of the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Project, will convene a training workshop for National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH-NFPs) on 8-9 October 2010, immediately before the fifth meeting of the Conference o ...
English Spanish French
Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-129)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Parties without a PoWPA Focal Point
In order to facilitate communication and improve capacity for PoWPA implementation in all regions, the Secretariat aims to have a complete list of PoWPA focal points prior to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Parties that have not yet nominated a PoWPA-NFP (see Annex) are there ...
English1 - 6 July 2010, Geel, Belgium
1 July - 22 August 2010, Beaumaris, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/fb/72402 (2010-124)
To: Africa’s National Focal Points and Resource Mobilization Focal Points of the Convention
I have the honour of transmitting to you the information note prepared by the Green Development Mechanism (GDM) 2010 Initiative with respect to its institutional characters. The information note is transmitted to Africa’s national focal points of the Convention, as received.
English17 June 2010, Oujda, Monaco
13 June 2010, Rouen, France
11 - 12 June 2010, Nampa, United States of America
Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points
With reference to paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) vide original notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008 (also available in Spanish https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/200 ...
English2 - 4 June 2010, Braga, Portugal
28 May 2010, Vienna, Austria
24 - 28 May 2010, Al Hoceima, Morocco
20 May - 31 August 2010, Brussels, Belgium
This side event is jointly organised by the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The objective of the Side Event is to obtain inputs from countries and, in particular, CBD National Focal Points, on the development o ...
10 - 14 May 2010, Caracas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
5 May 2010, New York, United States of America