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The Power of Human Awareness in Safeguarding Biodiversity & Sustainable Development

Through history, there has been an awareness of a deep connection between the living system of human thought and the living system of the natural world. Over time however, the awareness of this connection has become critically fragile. We will discuss ways of restoring and strengthening this awa ...

International cooperation and exchange for biodiversity conservation: Dialogue formats on ABS and TEEB

The German Government together with its global development partners Brazil, India and South Africa is supporting a variety of activities in the field of international cooperation striving for an effective implementation of the CBD. Current approaches are e.g. the facilitation of dialogue format ...

Effect of sand mining on biodiversity.

Sand mining is a neglected but serious environmental hazard affecting beaches, creeks and rivers all over the world. Rampant sand mining destroys environment and bio diversity, affects water security and causes land erosion. Developing countries like India, Cambodia and other Asian countries co ...

Traditional medicine: growing presence, resource concerns and possible solutions

Over 60,000 of plants, most of them harvested from the wild, provide essential ingredients for traditional medicine systems and other industries, and support livelihoods of thousands of collectors around the world. Due to multiple reasons wild plants are endangered with one in five threatened wi ...

Protocolo de Nagoya, Pueblos Indigenas y Conocimiento tradicional asociado a recursos geneticos

Se tratara los desafios de la entratada en vigor del Protocolo de Nagoya con un enfoque en conocimientos tradicionales asociados a recursos geneticos

Sharing knowledge and experience among the South East Asian countries and China in the implementation of the Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011-2020 & Aichi Targets

The China Fund Project on “Strengthening the capacity of South East Asian countries for the implementation of the Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011-2020 & Aichi Targets”, launched in 2013, aims to promote sharing of knowledge and experience among ASEAN countries and China on the implementation of ...

Community Protocols and the Nagoya Protocol

The side-event will launch a guide on Community Protocols for policy makers and other stakeholders that was developed by UNEP and EDO NSW which was supported by the Government of Spain through the LifeWeb Initiative. The event will also present case studies from five (5) different regions of th ...

ROLE OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN CONVERSVATION AND ACCESS & BENEFIT SHARING OF BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES AS PER THE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ACT. 2002, INDIA WITH CASE STUDIES

Gervernment of India, enacted the Biological Diversity Act. 2002 in spirit of UN Convention on Biological Diversity and which enabled the local communities have rights on their Biological Resources and its associated traditional knowledge. We would like to bring the notice of internatonal commu ...

Global Catalogue of Microorganisms (GCM) for tracking, monitoring and benefit sharing of microbial resources worldwide

Managing ex situ collections of microbial strains across the world has been hampered by the lack of an overarching tracking system. The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol (NP) requires improved clarity on what strains are held where, how they can be accessed, and the conditions under which ...

Nature has no borders – transboundary cooperation to safeguard arctic and boreal biodiversity

A key theme #5 in the recently released Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) concerns identifying and safeguarding important areas for biodiversity. This concerns the need to advance the protection of large areas of ecologically important marine, terrestrial and freshwater habitats, taking into ...

Global Understanding in Forestry Education

Forest as the one of ecosystem containing with biodiversity was threatening by human activity for supporting of economic growth and social development. People in every sector and level of education should be aware to create good management in forestry to make sustainable natural resources to fu ...

Using solutions to share knowledge and create evidence-based innovation

Let´s not keep reinventing the wheel but learn from each other´s successes in the management and governance of biodiversity and natural resources. This side event – hosted by the Blue Solutions Initiative of the German Environment Ministry (BMUB) together with its implementing partners GIZ, IUCN ...

Demonstrating the role of biodiversity and ecosystems in delivering good health at low cost

Of the several services that biodiversity provides, a cross-cutting one is the contribution to secure the health of people and life forms in all manifestations – physical, mental and spiritual. While the relevance of biodiversity and related traditional knowledge to mainstream health may be more ...

Patent Activity for Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Experience from the UK

This side-event presents the results of research to identify genetic resources and TK in UK international patent activity as part of a project with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and UK Intellectual Property Office. The project aimed to understand the origins of ...

BENEFIT SHARING UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Does biodiversity matter for development? EU's development cooperation launches its B4Life Flagship Initiative.

The EU Biodiversity for Life (B4Life) flagship initiative is designed to help developing countries protect ecosystems, combat wildlife crime and develop green economies. It takes the novel approach of emphasising the economic benefits of protecting biodiversity and ecosystems in the interest of ...

Connecting the islands to complete the biodiversity puzzles

Island conservation is the hot issue nowadays. Life forms started from deep sea and flourished on islands. Roots up conservation action is very crucial to establish a long term support and impact on local people. Therefore, constant communication between different stake holders and massive envir ...

How Sectors Can Contribute To Sustainable Use And Conservation Of Biodiversity

The Global Biodiversity Outlook-4 shows that if the world stays on its current development path, pressures on biodiversity will continue to increase in the coming years, and the state of biodiversity will decline further. To provide better insight into how the pressures on and underlying causes ...

TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND REHABILITATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. TERRE POLICY CENTRE

Release of short film on Western Ghats – The ecological balance by Nature and panel discussion on the Western Ghats- sustainable Livelihood for every life . Speakers- Mr Ram Bhooj National programme Officer, ecological sciences. Mr. Shende Rajendra – Former Director UNEP President of the side e ...

Le Protocole de Nagoya et la croissance verte.

La Ministre de l'Environnement du Maroc présentera les projets entamés en relation avec le sujet.

PROMOTING LAWS FOR BIODIVERSITY

IDLO invites COP 12 delegates to learn about the latest tools, innovations and initiatives available to assist CBD Parties to use law to support the national implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The IDLO-SCBD Legal Preparedness for Achieving ...

Falconry and Falconer’s Activities associated with Sustainable Wildlife Management

Falconry is a worldwide traditional hunting art using trained birds of prey with a history of over 3,000 years. It is listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. Recently, sustainable use of wildlife is being recognized as a way to help conserve biological diversity; sustainable use o ...

Amazon Protected Areas Program (ARPA): past 10 years, future 25 years – financially sound and sustainable Protected Areas for the Biome on a continent wide scale

The event intends to address the accomplishments after 10 years of implementation of the ARPA Program and its future: the 25 year strategy for achieving financial sustainability and sound management of Protected Areas. This is a follow-up side event on the launching of the ARPA for Life initiati ...

Challenges for the basic, applied and commercial reserach community in a post-Nagoya world

Non-commercial research focused on improving our understanding of natural systems, is crucially important to underpin the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity. This is especially true for the, as yet, largely unexplored marine environment. In relation to Article 8a of the Nagoya Protoc ...

What does a win-win-win benefit-sharing mechanism look like under the Nagoya Protocol?

Through an in-depth look at how the cosmetics and fragrance industry create value within their products and innovation systems this event will provide concrete knowledge and recommendations on the formulation and implementation of benefit-sharing mechanisms that can have a win-win-win outcome fo ...

Conserving Biodiversity at the African Development Bank (AfDB)

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is a premier multilateral development finance institution. It is one of the five major global multilateral development banks (MDBs) in the world. The AfDB was established in 1964 to contribute to the economic development and social progress of its region ...

TAKING BUSINESS EFFORTS TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY AND NATURAL CAPITAL – TANGIBLE EXAMPLES FOR BUSINESS ACTION

The 'Biodiversity in Good Company' Initiative was one of the first initiatives worldwide organizing companies who are willing to commit themselves to the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity – a role model mentioned in CoP 10 Decision X/21 on Business Engagement. The initiative is a fo ...

Beyond Tigers

Beyond Tigers would highlight the manner in which tigers promote (and could further promote) CBD objectives, particularly Aichi Targets 11 and 12. The event will highlight how tiger conservation efforts have mobilized funds which protect the wider ecosystems in which the species is found, thus a ...

Managing coastal marine biodiversity in India: Can participatory approaches make a difference?

Protection of biodiversity in India has a long tradition with some remarkable success when it comes to terrestrial ecosystems. Similar efforts for marine areas along the coast proved to be much more difficult, mainly because of the enormous pressure on natural resources exerted by an ever increa ...

EXTERNAL RESPONSIBILITY. AN ASSESSMENT OF ITS EFFECTS ON GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS

The growing internationalization of the economy is responsible for the effects that domestic decisions have beyond any political or administrative boundaries. That applies not only to States and unions of States such as the European Union, but also to subnational and local governments. In the co ...

TEEB India Initiative – Implementing Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Drawing example from India, the side event will present how TEEB implementation at national and sub-national levels could support countries towards achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets. A presentation on the TEEB India Initiative (TII) and National Biodiversity Targets 2020 will be made, follow ...

Biodiversity Bright Spots High Level Event: Celebrating Leadership in Resource Mobilization and Commitment to Action

This high-level, invitation-only evening event will be focused on celebrating country successes in light of the opportunities for replication and scaling up innovative approaches to mobilize resources identified during the bright spots exchange. During this evening reception, high level represen ...

FUNBIO: a strategic mechanism in pursuit of financial sustainability of Brazilian protected areas

Support for Protected Areas (PAs) have been the main focus of the work of FUNBIO the past 18 years. On the one hand, FUNBIO designed financial mechanisms for resource mobilization from different sources and on the other hand has created mechanisms to assure that these resources reach the PAs as ...

POSEIDON ARMY -Empowering Youth for Coastal Bio Diversity Management

How a youth volunteer can be improved to conserve the marine biodiversity and oceanic natural resources for any country by developing a National Strategy and Management Plan for Marine ecosystems conservation by introducing marine researches and conservation programs. Further it will build up e ...

ITTO-CITES Programme for Implementing CITES Listing of Tropical Tree Species. CITES and ITTO: Working together to sustain tropical tree species.

The survival of CITES-listed tree species in their natural range cannot be separated from broader forest management. In this context, the Secretariats of ITTO and CITES initiated in 2006 a joint program to assist CITES Parties and ITTO Members with implementation of the CITES Convention. During ...

Transboundary cooperation in the European and Fennoscandian Green Belt - a joint effort towards a European-wide ecological network

Transboundary cooperation aiming for nature conservation and mainstreaming biodiversity has a great potential world-wide. Side-event provides inspiring insights, experience and possible solutions on transboundary nature conservation and peaceful and sustainable development of the larger border ...

Revolutionising the international trade system through sustainable use of biodiversity

This event will offer participants the opportunity to learn how fashion and cosmetics industries are fostering innovation across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe to transform their industries and the policies that govern them so that positive conservation impacts can be created and sustain ...

Developing capacities in Africa and ACP countries to make the NP operational

With the Nagoya Protocol entering into force demand for capacity development will further increase. Based on lessons learned during the last years the ABS Capacity Development Initiative and its partners are reflecting how to adjust their capacity development strategy. Panelists will present the ...

Toward achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020 ~ Contribution of Sub-National Governments

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets are 20 ambitious goals that make up part of the CBD’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, adopted by the parties in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture in 2010. The targets provide a framework for action for all stakeholders, including sub-national and local government ...

Privately managed protected areas – helping achieve the Aichi Targets

Privately managed protected areas (PPAs) are underrepresented in national protected area systems and under reported internationally despite the fact that they are a rapidly growing element of the conservation estate. This side event will draw on the results of a two-year project which has review ...

Protecting Brazilian Nature: Improving the Protected Areas System, Knowledge and Conservation Tools

The Biodiversity Conservation Actions Support Program, which was launched by the Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection in 1991, has invested over US$ 14 million in Brazil on 1,377 projects by 480 institutions. These projects have benefited 445 protected areas and have studied 235 enda ...

South Africa's Implementation of the Aichi Targets

Presentation and panel discussion on the successes and challenges in terms of Rhino Conservation

Biodiversity criteria for REDD+ - how science can contribute to make safeguards work

For the implementation of REDD+, biodiversity is considered as one of the key elements of safeguards. Biodiversity is also highly related to both ecosystem and social services from tropical forests. Practical, effective, and efficient criteria and indicators to secure biodiversity are called for ...

Biodiversity for Sustainable Development. EC DG Research and UNEP

The policy brief titled “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development. EC DG Research and UNEP” will be presented at the side event in collaboration with EC DG Research. A selected speaker will draw attention to best practices and showcase the variety of approaches for the proposed topic. Also, the ...

Collections and Collaboration: how can ex situ collections help facilitate research and foster cooperation?

Panel discussion on the role of ex situ collections under the Nagoya Protocol, featuring ex situ collections professionals and ABS regulators, prefaced by short presentations on two EU-Brazil 2013 workshops and the role of collections under the new EU regulation on ABS and Brazilian legislation- ...

Valuing the Deep: Marine Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

The United Nations General Assembly is debating a possible implementing agreement (or agreements) on marine biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. Access and benefit-sharing may be one component of any implementing agreement with a decision expected in 2015. This side event presents ...

CONNECTING THE BIODIVERSITY OF CHEONSU BAY IN SEOSAN, AN INTERNATIONALLY IMPORTANT WETLAND IN KOREA, WITH LOCAL CULTURES AND PROMOTING THEM

* Background and purpose: To make a diagnosis of the values of biodiversity in Cheonsu bay which constitutes the East-Asian Australasian Flyway and serves as a large stop-over and wintering ground for migratory water birds including Hooded Crane, Oriental White-stork, Baikal Teal etc. and also t ...

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

The environmental crisis due to climate change, ecosystem degradation, decrease in biodiversity, increase in population, and many interrelated factors have continued to deteriorate human health and exacerbate poverty and food insecurity in the ASEAN region. Hence, there is an urgent need to enha ...

MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL AND THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON PGRFA

Both the COP and the Governing Body of the International Treaty have repeatedly emphasized the necessity for close cooperation and coordination between the Convention and the International Treaty, and their respective Secretariats. The Nagoya Protocol acknowledges the International Treaty and it ...

Meeting sustainable development objectives: opportunities and limits to biodiversity offsets

The conservation of global biodiversity alongside economic development is a key challenge for the 21st century. Impact mitigation and biodiversity offset need to be contextualised in the broader context of biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development. To allow biodiversity offset sc ...

A Series of Reviews on International Collaboration for the Aichi Biodiversity Targets: A Case of Japan and Partner Nations

This side event will be “the initial review session” in the series of four CBD COP side events up to 2020 when the Aichi Biodiversity Targets will be concluded. Our prime objective of the side events is to discuss effective approaches and strategies to achieve the Targets and make recommendation ...

NIEMA: Code of Conduct for Culture Collections, Microbial Resource Centers and Scientists using Microbes under the Nagoya Protocol

Since 2006, the microbial resource centers (MRCs) under Asian Consortium for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources (ACM) have been working on the development of legitimate and practical scheme for exchanging microbial resources between ACM member MRCs. Especially after the ...

LIFE Certification - Pre-eminent Biological Methodology for Businesses

LIFE Certification is an international tool for businesses concerned with the increasing risks of global ecological thresholds and the negative impacts to Natural Capital. With reliable, transparent and independent audits, a LIFE certified business can more effectively communicate its voluntary ...

ABS and non-commercial research: Benefits and lessons learnt from collaborations

How to account for the multiple benefits derived from projects on basic research, can be challenging, as the benefits do not necessarily fall into the typical idea of monetary benefits. But there are immediate and long-term benefits that contribute both, to conservation and sustainable use of bi ...

Biodiversity and Business

Biodiversity and Business: economic value for companies

Assessment of progress of work by the COP

The side event will focus both on the ongoing work for the decisions to be taken at COP 12, as well as an assessment of the implementation of previous COP decisions. Joint side event between CBDA and TWN

Presentation of a Draft Sourcebook of opportunities for enhancing cooperation and collaboration among the biodiversity-related conventions at the national and regional levels

As part of the UNEP project “Improving the effectiveness of and cooperation among biodiversity-related conventions and exploring opportunities for further synergies”, funded by the European Union and the Swiss Government, a Sourcebook of opportunities for enhancing cooperation among the biodive ...

How can Science really add value to global biodiversity governance? – discussing the effectiveness of Science-Policy-Interfaces

Science-Policy-Interfaces (SPIs) in the biodiversity arena aim at synthesizing the best possible knowledge basis to inform political decision-making, and being relevant, credible and legitimate. Besides scientific results on the status and trends of biodiversity, this also implies the scientific ...

Workshop on the Establishment and Implementation of the Local Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (LBSAP) for Sub-national Governments

A working-level meeting for sub-national governments on the establishment and implementation of the Local Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (LBSAP) geared towards reinforcing the ground for local biodiversity policies in the CBD COP12 participating countries, and providing measures to lin ...

SEMINAR ON CONSERVATION OF HABITATS FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES

Share research findings about “The impact of expressway construction on Endangered species,” Main subjects : Study on Otters’ habitats and eating habits; Creation of alternative habitats for endangered species

PEOPLES DIALOGUE on Bt-Brinjal in Bangladesh and GE politics

The Government of Bangladesh permitted to grow Bt-brinjal in the farmers fields.Farmers, Environmentalist and media are still now protesting. In the coming COP12 of CBD we want to arrange a public dialoufe session on Bt-brinjal and the politics of GE. Our presentation is based on the 20 Bt-brin ...

Présentation de l'Atlas de l'empreinte écologique et de la biocapacité des pays francophones

Cet Atlas, fruit d’une collaboration entre l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie et le Global Footprint Network, avec l’appui d’autres partenaires, dont la FRANCE et la Wallonie, vise à améliorer et à approfondir la compréhension de l'Empreinte écologique et des tendances de la biocap ...

ACHIEVING AICHI TARGETS AND SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE MARINE AND COASTAL PROGRAMME OF WEST AFRICA (PRCM)

This side event will showcase some progress in West Africa towards Aichi Targets achievement. Species and habitats have been facing increasing pressure in West Africa: Overexploitation, critical habitat destruction, pollution, urbanization, growing extractive industry, and uncontrolled tourism ...

Biodiversity Bright Spots: Sharing and Celebrating Effective and Replicable Examples of Successful Resource Mobilization and Leadership

This lunch time learning event will use a world café / round-table format and participatory facilitation techniques to profile a selection of bright spots in support of the resource mobilization strategy and determine how they can be replicated and scaled in different contexts. This event is des ...

Biodiversity mainstreaming – what does success look like?

Mainstreaming biodiversity means different things to different people but it is recognized to be one of the key processes to address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss (Aichi Target 2). Nevertheless, it is not an easy task. Incorporating the values of biodiversity into development and ec ...

How business can contribute to recover biodiversity and ecosystems within cities. Sharing experiences from Japan.

Japan Business Initiative for Biodiversity (JBIB) has been eagerly working in every aspect of business operations to reduce impacts by business to biodiversity and ecosystem. Furthermore, its member companies are now trying to recover once-lost biodiversity and ecosystems within cities and fact ...

The International Islands Initiative to Achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 9

Prevention of entry of alien species through the common pathways of introduction in islands via sea ports and air ports was highlighted as a priority action in SIDS at the capacity-building (Montreal, Canada, 14-15 June 2014). In addition, invasive alien species currently present in SIDS can pos ...

STRENGTHENING REGIONAL BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES IN EAST ASIA FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GSPC 2020

Conserving biodiversity and guaranteeing its sustainable use in the East Asian region require the creation and operation of an institutional network that can perform collaborative research and conservation activities. Therefore, 8 institutions from 5 countries of Korea, China(Taiwan), Japan, Rus ...

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA PACIFIC

The Asia Pacific Environment Forum is an international annual forum where 15 regional experts from 11 countries in Asia Pacific discuss national and regional environmental issues and seek for solutions. This year, regional experts will present their views on the status of biodiversity in Asia Pa ...

Guatemala Immortal: The decade of life and development 2012-2022

The side-event aims to present: i) the challenges and lessons learned after three years of approval of our National Policy on Biological Diversity and updated NBSAP 2012-2022; ii) present the potential of our biological diversity for sustainable development goals and it´s contributions to the G ...

Approaches to identifying business potentials for genetic resources under ABS in Africa: outcomes of a 6 country ABS capacity building project (SEN, CAM, RSA; MOZ, KEN, MAD) under GEF 4.

Results and experiences from a 6 country capacity building project - more detailed information soon.

SYMPOSIUM ON IMPACT OF WILDLAND FIRE ON ECOSYSTEM AND BIODIVERSITY

To seek for scientific conservation measures by sharing research results and domestic and foreign cases regarding the influence of wildland fire on ecosystem and biodiversity.

India Business & Biodiversity Initiative: Mainstreaming Sustainable Management of Biodiversity by Indian Businesses

The event will feature the good business practices of biodiversity management by Indian companies. The key note would be addressed by Mr. Hem Pande, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India. A case study report will be released covering business initi ...

Building TRUST - TRransparent User-friendly System of Transfer for tracking, monitoring and management of benefit sharing of microbial resources worldwide

The TRUST Project is developing world best practice procedures for managing exchange of microbiological resources in concordance of the legal developments and principles of the Nagoya Protocol (NP). TRUST is imbedded in the culture collection community, which strives to provide for reliable ra ...

New OECD work on: Indicators to Monitor Progress on Aichi Target 3 (Incentives) and Target 20 (Resource Mobilisation); Designing Effective Biodiversity Offsets; and Finance for Biodiversity

New OECD work on issues of key relevance to the negotations will be released: Indicators to monitor progress on positive and harmful incentives to biodiversity (Aichi Target 3) and on resource mobilisation (Aichi Target 20), including on the OECD DAC Rio Marker on biodiversity. And how to design ...

Realizing the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary (This is a case study on the collaboration between the Asahiyama Zoo, the Borneo Conservation Trust (BCT), BCT Japan and businesses , revealing how the Borneo Elephant Sanctuary was built and how future conservation work will be shared among the participating parties. )

In October 2013, The Borneo Elephant Sanctuary held its inaugural opening in Sabah Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It was built through the efforts and collaboration among several companies, the Asahiyama Zoo in Japan, BCT, and BCT Japan. Each party has played different roles and the project t ...

North-East Asian Cooperation on Migratory Bird and Habitat Conservation

The North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) is an intergovernmental mechanism of six North-East Asian countries, supported by UNESCAP. As part of NEASPEC's Nature Conservation programme, it currently carries out field surveys and studies for conservation an ...

Learning and Action: Enhancing Conservation Finance through Environmental Funds and South-South Collaboration

Environmental Funds (EFs) have been established in more than 70 developing countries, created to co finance conservation and sustainable development initiatives. In 2010, RedLAC launched a program with the objective of strengthening EFs to exchange knowledge and develop innovative financial mech ...

Partners Roundtable on Achieving the Aichi Targets through Integrated Coastal Management

The Roundtable with Donors and Partners will feature the joint initiative of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity and the Partnership for Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia in supporting efforts in South East and East Asia to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity targets through integrated ...

‘Bhutan for LIFE’: “A long term Innovative and sustainable financing solution to conserve Bhutan’s extensive network of protected areas”

Bhutan is one of the smallest countries in the world. But its commitment to conservation is bigger than almost any other. Conservation is one of the four pillars of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index. And the country’s constitution calls for maintaining 60 percent of the country’s forest co ...

The cost of knowledge – investments to date in authoritative biodiversity knowledge products

Both planning and monitoring strategies and actions for biodiversity require authoritative knowledge, but surprisingly little is known about the levels of investment necessary to develop and maintain such knowledge products. This is deeply problematic: without such information, those who need it ...

Synthetic Biology: Ecological Implications and the Impact of the Nagoya Protocol

The Nagoya Protocol (NP) will enter into force on October 12, 2014. How synthetic biology will be interpreted under the NP and whether the CBD will treat synthetic biology separate from current protocols like the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is an open ...

Strengthening capacities to combat poaching and the illegal wildlife trade in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

The current dimension and growth in the illegal trade in wildlife products pose a significant risk both to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and to social and economic development. Past and recent successes in conservation, protected area management and the governance of natur ...

MUTUALLY AGREED TERMS AND GUIDELINES IN RELATION TO ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES AND BENEFIT-SHARING

Discuss and share research findings about the Mutually Agreed Terms and Guidelines in relation to access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing.

Sustainable use of cultural landscapes in Asia - implementing Aichi targets in Viet Nam, The Philippines, China and Japan

IIn this side event, international scientific projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Vietnam, the Philippines and China, as well as a project in which German scientists collaborate with partners in Japan relate their scientific results to several Aichi ...

Knowledge, values and community based monitoring - Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities contributions to Aichi Targets and to IPBES

Knowledge, practices and values of indigenous peoples and local communities are essential to governing and conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services all over the world. In different global regions, indigenous peoples have developed their own ways of monitoring ecosystems and community healt ...

Achieving Forest-related Aichi Targets on the Ground: ITTO/CBD Collaborative Initiative for Tropical Forest Biodiversity

Background: A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed in 2010 between the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), on the occasion of the CBD COP 10 held in Nagoya, Japan. The key purpose of the MOU is to identify ...

Our Pacific Voyage: Natural Solutions for Island Resilience

Our Pacific Voyage to protect and conserve our regions’ biodiversity is an ongoing one, as we navigate this journey we are learning and experiencing new moments and lessons which we wish to share and learn from others. The Pacific islands will showcase work done in the region on our voyage, und ...

Biodiversity Conservation in China: the national progress for the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

In this workshop, the national progress of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in China will be introduced. Meanwhile, the preliminary results of two pilot studies for economics valuation at local level and one for poverty reduction at community level in China will be shown respectively ...

BUILDING LEGAL FRAMEWORKS TO IMPLEMENT THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL

Building Nagoya Protocol-compliant legal frameworks is a key step in national implementation. No one-size-fits-all solution exists, but valuable lessons can be learned from past country experiences with implementing and updating ABS legal frameworks. Experience has shown that legal frameworks wi ...

Report Launch: "The Future of the Bornean Orangutan: Impacts of a Changing Climate and Land Use"

The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) will launch its latest report, "The Future of the Bornean Orangutan: Impacts of a Changing Climate and Land Use," which models scenarios to project the losses of population and habitat faced by orangutans in Borneo. Produced in collaboration with Liver ...

Unveiling the implementation toolbox: support tools and methodologies to achieve objectives of the CBD

This group of global NGOs will jointly showcase the wealth of instrumental material they have been long developing to contribute on the implementation of the CBD. A variety of valuable policy support tools and methodologies have been developed by the CBD, its Parties and its partners, to help i ...

CREATION OF NORTH-EAST ASIAN BIODIVERSITY FORUM (NEABF) FOR CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY IN NORTH-EAST ASIA

Raise awareness about the eco-geographical importance of the Korean peninsula that boasts major ecological features in North-East Asia including the Baekdudaegan Mountain Range, the DMZ, the Yellow sea, and the East Sea; Create North-East Asian Biodiversity Forum as a regional expert network for ...

CAPACITY BUILDING AND MAINSTREAMING OF BIODIVERSITY IN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. THE CASE OF BELGIUM

A side event with the focus on capacity building and mainstreaming of biodiversity in developing countries, explaining national case studies, tools, instruments, concepts, best practices and lessons learned.

ACCESS BENEFIT SHARING – INDIAN EXPERIENCES

Currently NBA India is implementing a first global project on Access Benefit Sharing in Partnership with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Global Environment Facility(GEF) UNU-IAS, UNEP-DELC, BSI, ZSI five state biodiversity boards and it is currently being Implemented in India. ...

Access and Benefit-Sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean: A science-policy dialogue for academic research

Though academic research contributes essential elements to the conservation, sustainable use and valuation of biological resources, it is often faced with challenges in accessing these resources. Some of these challenges may be attributed to the legal and administrative requirements for accessin ...

Protecting the central Arctic Ocean: the need for action

Arctic biodiversity is facing unprecedented challenges due to rapid ongoing climate change. The Arctic region is currently significantly under-represented in marine protection, leaving this unique Arctic environment and its fragile ecosystems and biodiversity exposed to the threats of industrial ...

An Ecosystems SDG without People?

A Sustainable Development Goal on ecosystems protection has been proposed, but until now the goal and its targets fail to recognize the role and rights of indigenous peoples, local communities and women in biodiversity conservation. Also, some of the proposed targets might be devastating for bio ...

Developing biocultural innovations for resilience: Linking biological and cultural diversity in agricultural systems

This side event will discuss the role of biocultural diversity in developing innovations for resilience to climate change, including the conditions that support biocultural innovation systems and how to link TK and science to create tools to strengthen them. Presentation will include 3 case stud ...

50 years of The IUCN Red List: evolution and new applications for the conservation of biodiversity at global, national and site level

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is arguably one of the most important tools in nature conservation, facilitating the flow of biodiversity information from the point of collection to policy-makers around the world, and driving research into biodiversity conservation. This year, the Red Li ...