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Aichi Targets

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

Organizer
Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Date and Time
17 October 2014 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

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 and joint learning processes in relation to the (peer to peer) exchange of experiences. Topics addressed so far in international dialogues are Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) / the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol as well as TEEB with respect to dedicated country initiatives. Two dialogue meetings on ABS in 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa; Goa, India) provided a useful and practical platform where more than 20 countries exchanged experiences and perspectives, learn from each other and disseminate best practices - initiating forms of collaboration or common approaches that support their ABS implementation efforts to address the core obligations of the Nagoya Protocol. In the case of the TEEB Dialogue meetings in 2013 and 2014 (Berlin, Germany; Brasilia, Brazil) the discussions evolved around possible routes for mainstreaming biodiversity into policy at different levels: from the public to the private sector in order to move from scientific knowledge and scattered pilot scale actions to systematic real-world decision making and the contributions of TEEB country initiatives for the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity targets. During the side-event general principles and context specific success factors for successful dialogue and partnerships for joint learning will be presented and discussed.