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Information of Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 2)

Experience of implementation of the Convention onBiological Diversity.

The 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership

UNEP and GEF will officially launch the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership at this high-level side-event. The GEF-funded 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010BIP) brings together organisations developing biodiversity indicators measuring progress towards the CBD's 2010 target. T ...

The Equator Initiative: communities as partners for implementing the Convention

International Regime on Access and benefit-sharing: Briefing by the Co-chairs of the WGABS

Side event cancelled

"Delicate Balance". Raising awareness of Biodiversity and Climate Change in Vietnam on International Biodiversity day. Film screening and discussion

To follow

Issue-Based Module on Protected Areas

This event will introduce a new Issue-based Module on protected areas and will give an update on the existing Issue-Based Modules, show-casing the value of the modules for making commitments for Parties from biodiversity-related conventions easily accessible.

'Developing International Payments for Ecosystem Services (IPES): Avoided Deforestation

This event will discuss the latest progress on scaling up PES with a focus on payments for avoided deforestation. The progress is based on a joint UNEP-IUCN initiative in close collaboration with the CBD Secretariat. Challenges in moving this agenda forward will also be identified and ways of ad ...

Experiences in sub-national implementation

Some CBD Parties have federal systems of government, in which power is divided between a central government and state, territorial or provincial governments. Sub-national governments carry out various activities relevant to CBD implementation. Some have developed their own sub-national biodive ...

INTEGRATING BIODIVERSITY INTO STRATEGIES FOR POVERTY ERADICATION AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MDGS

Progress towards the 2010 Target and other biodiversity objectives clearly depend on incorporating biodiversity considerations into the productive sectors of the economy (e.g. agriculture, forestry, transport, energy, etc.) that present both serious threats to, and opportunities for, the conserv ...

Technology Transfer: Benefits from Biotech

This side-event, organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) will explore how CBD members can best gain potential benefits from commercialization of biotechnology through technology transfer to provide economic and social benefits like job creation and improved living standards.