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Building on the Lisbon Conference on Business and Biodiversity

Regional Initiative on a business platform for 2010 business action.

From COP 9 to COP 10 - The way forward on ABS and Plant Breeding

Panel discussion on assessing the outcome of COP 9 and Position for Future Negotiations especially focusing on plant breeding. Panel members represent a wide range of interests from both developed and developing countries.

Natura 2000 - Europe's practical commitment to the 2010 target

To celebrate and present recent progress in establishing Natura 2000, Europe's protected areas network contributing to the CBD programme of work on protected areas. Short interventions by high level representatives from the European Commission, host country Germany, EU Presidency Slovenia, NGOs ...

Integrating Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Into Strategies of the Financial Sector

In Spring 2007 Environment Ministers of the G8 Countries as well as of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, and the European Commission laid out a set of goals for halting the loss of biodiversity: the “Potsdam Initiative - Biological Diversity 2010”. While goal No 1 draws on the “econ ...

The Strategic HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

The side event will present the strategic HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan adopted last year by the nine Baltic Sea coastal countries and the European Community. It is an ambitious overarching programme of actions to drastically reduce pollution to the Baltic Sea and restore its good ecological sta ...

AVEDA Panel Discussion and Reception hosted by AVEDA: Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Biological Diversity

Integrating Biodiversity into Investment Decisions - progress from COP 8

Convened by Fauna & Flora International, UNEP Finance Initiative and the Brazilian business school FGV; this side-event will review the progress made by the finance sector since COP 8. Key areas for discussion are i) UNEP FI's CEO briefing which sets out the business case for financial insitu ...

Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA): Innovation in Protected Areas System Management

Created in 2003 by the Brazilian government for the conservation of a significant sample of Amazonian biodiversity, the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) has developed a range of best practices concerning the management of Protected Areas in Brazil. The ARPA Program is coordinated by ...

The Alpine Ecological Network- a Contribution to the Global Network of Protected Areas

The Parties to the Alpine Convention started to set up an ecological network in the Alps approximately 10 years ago. Today this initiative is - together with the issues of climate change and the loss of biodiversity - embedded in a far reaching and overarching context and makes a significant co ...

Future of the GEF Biodiversity Program

The high-level panels, including the CEO of GEF, will discuss the future strategic direction and focus of GEF biodiversity program.