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This side-event will explore the diversity of work being done around the work to connect the public to nature, of innovation and best practice in reaching new audiences, and of the road to the World Parks Congress, where partners will come together to support the growth of a global movement dedi ...
This side event will present tools that can be helpful to countries to effectively implement Aichi Targets 11 and 12, by showing country focused case studies and lessons learned from identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) and management. It will also provide an update on IUCN´s progress ...
IDLO and the CBD Secretariat, with support from the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment are hosting an interactive session on new thinking on how countries can use law to achieve their goals related to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets - together with partners from the CISDL, IUCN, Natural Just ...
This side event will build on the outcomes of the In Depth Dialogue of the WG 8(j) 8 meeting; “Connecting diverse knowledge systems and science, such as in the IPBES, including gender dimensions”. It will present recent developments of methodologies for connecting traditional and scientific know ...
The TEEB Water and Wetlands study has provided important information on the values of water-related ecosystem services to underpin implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (2011-2020) and all of the Achi Biodiversity targets, particularly target 14. The side event will present the n ...
“Introduction to a new collaborative project being led by UNEP which will identify and explore opportunities and options for enhancing cooperation at both global and national levels, develop guidance on mobilization of resources for more integrated implementation of MEAs at the national level, a ...
The event will launch a new initiative to focus effort and investment towards better understanding of life on Earth and our impacts upon it. The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) offers a framework to harness the immense power of information technology and an open data culture, to g ...
The event will discuss successful non-market based approaches and incentive schemes to conserving biodiversity and related traditional knowledge, including the redirection of perverse incentives that promote unsustainable forms and levels of livestock and bioenergy production, and the developmen ...
A series of brief presentations demonstrating the value and engagement of ex situ microbial germplasm in developing and implementing access and benefit as well as in characterizing and cataloging invasive microbes.
The challenges of finding common measurements on public awareness of biodiversity will be discussed in this event through a presentation some of the latest survey findings on biodiversity awareness from Parties and Partners such as the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the government of C ...
Biodiversity-related MEAs plus other Conventions get together to present and discuss their different strategic and planning processes (as opposed to activities) that are or will take place in support of implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. For example, CMS Parties are developi ...
Any of the five forest-based climate change mitigation activities included in REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks) can potentially contribute towards t ...
A series of brief presentations from Brazil, Japan, Finland and Georgia on the process of establishing national targets, using the Aichi Biodiversity Targets as a framework. These countries will be sharing their lessons learned, their achievements and will be discussing some of the strategies th ...
The Seedmap.org portal, the first of its kind interactive website on biodiversity, will be launched in October 2013. It shows the state of global agro-biodiversity today, identifies key threats to the world’s seed and biodiversity systems, particularly the impact of climate change, and highlig ...
Discussion of Sud Expert Plantes (SEP) results and of SEPDD objectives and scheduled activities. SEP focused on the development of scientific capacities in plant biodiversity in 22 countries of Africa and Asia. The next phase, SEPDD will bring academics to work at the interface between researc ...
Following CBD's Secretariat call for Aichi Target Champions, a group of organizations working on species conservation has established the “Friends of Target 12” partnership which goal is to support CBD parties to meet Aichi Biodiversity Target 12. This side event, organised by BirdLife Internati ...
Microfinancing for sustainable development and Environment Change
An indicator approach has become increasingly used to monitor progress towards achieving specific goals and targets identified in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Millennium Development Goals and other relevant international agreements. While it has played an important role in underst ...
The proposed IPBES work programme, developed by the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel and Bureau will be presented by the IPBES interim secretariat, in support of SBSTTA-17 agenda items 5 and 7. The draft work programme builds on the input received from CBD, and from governments and other sta ...
The event will provide the delegates with an update on the progress towards the scenarios assessment for the GBO-4. It will introduce methods and approaches used for the assessment, provide information on domains and topics covered for each target, and highlight first results.
Pursuant to CBD decisions X/29 and XI/17, the CBD Secretariat has convened six regional workshops on ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) since November 2011. So far, experts from 92 countries and 79 organizations have contributed to the six CBD workshops. The results of ...
This session will present the results of a recent expert meeting, hosted by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, to review progress in mainstreaming biodiversity in policy and production landscapes over the past 10 years. The Global Environment Facility ...
The side event intends to present the key messages and recommendations from the CBD commissioned paper: Managing Biodiversity is about people and the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012. The main objective will be to highlight how the IWR can facilitate change in the way people perceive biodiversity an ...
In partnership with Caribbean-based Parties and non-governmental organizations, Island Conservation will: a) provide case studies of invasive alien species eradication in the Caribbean, highlighting how these successes have effectively furthered multiple Aichi Biodiversity Targets, as well as me ...
Raising awareness of the biodiversity community on the relevance of the work for developing the Sustainable Development Goals also in the context of achieving the CBD Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and conveying its overarching vision beyond 2020.