May 8, 2012
The sixteenth session of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened from 30 April – 5 May 2012 in Montreal, Canada, directly prior to the fourth meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on the Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI). More than 400 representatives from governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, indigenous and local communities, business and academia...
May 2, 2012
Sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice under the Convention on Biological Diversity (SBSTTA 16) delegates met in two working groups (WGs) throughout the day. WG I held discussions on biodiversity and climate change, including REDD+ safeguards and geo-engineering; biofuels; incentive measures and collaborative work on forests, agriculture and health. Informal groups met in the evening on several of these issues to draft revised text.
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April 18, 2012
When Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias was appointed Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in January, he took responsibility for implementing the CBD’s new ten-year strategic plan. In a wide-ranging interview with Ecosystem Marketplace, he discusses the plan, the future of biodiversity, and the role of offsetting.
The Tenth Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took place towards the...
March 20, 2012
Takuya Okada, Chairman of the AEON Environmental Foundation and Honorary Chairman of AEON Co., Ltd., announced today the opening of nominations for the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.
The MIDORI Prize is a biennial international prize, established by the AEON Environmental Foundation, in 2010, during the International Year of Biodiversity, that honours individuals who have made outstanding contributions for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity at global,...
March 9, 2012
Saving biodiversity — the vast variety of animal and plant life on Earth — will be expensive: an estimated $300 billion a year for the next eight years, according to the new chief of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. But Brazilian Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias said that failing to protect the essential diversity in the natural world would cost more, creating global repercussions of disease, hunger, poverty and diminished resilience to climate change.
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March 5, 2012
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has encouraged CBD parties to participate in a survey organized by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, which is part of a project aiming to identify good practice and lessons learnt from incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem service values into national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs).
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It is the lesser known of the two framework conventions that emerged at the Rio Earth Summit of 1992; it also deals with a concept more difficult to comprehend. But the Convention on Biological Diversity is the international agreement that protects life on earth, and thereby, should be the base for all environmental discussions.
In 2012, India will host the most important meeting relating to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Public perception...
March 2, 2012
This brief outlines the international commitments to biodiversity in REDD+, the risks and opportunities, and international and national options for promoting biodiversity in REDD+. By reporting on the risks and raising awareness about the positive measures taken to conserve biodiversity as parts of international, national and sub-national REDD+ activities, standards and safeguards; FCA and SNV seek to ensure that the new REDD+ mechanism contributes to the long-term conservation and...
March 1, 2012
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has made the UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA 16/INF/22 document: A Framework for integrating Biodiversity concerns into National REDD+ Programmes available on their website.
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