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€800m biodiversity partnership to spearhead nature protection

A newly created biodiversity partnership named Biodiversa+, co-funded by the European Union, brings together 74 research programmes, funders and environmental policy actors from across Europe and beyond "to help put nature back on a path of recovery".

“South South Cooperation for Promoting Life on Earth” - Statement by the Executive Secretary, Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the Occasion of the Inaugural Session of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Personalities on the Development Platform for the South , St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, 29 April 2008.

“South South Cooperation for Promoting Life on Earth” - Statement by the Executive Secretary, Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the Occasion of the Inaugural Session of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Personalities on the Development Platform for the South , St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, 29 April 2008

“Global Alliance for Life on Earth” - Statement by Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at a Meeting organized at the United States Library of Congress by the Institute for Policy Innovation, Washington DC, 26 June 2007.

“Global Alliance for Life on Earth” - Statement by Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at a Meeting organized at the United States Library of Congress by the Institute for Policy Innovation, Washington DC, 26 June 2007.

During this weekend, the temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Romania; as a result at least four people died. This was a stark reminder of the exceptional heat wave that engulfed Europe in August 2003, which led in a matter of days to the death of more than 22,000 people. According to ...

“Friends of the CBD” workshop on mechanisms to support review of implementation of the Convention

Reference: SCBD/TSI/RS/85353 (2016-024)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

‘Greener and richer’ P4G: Denmark rocks the boat for UN goals

On Saturday October 20, Danish PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen celebrated the launch of his Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) with heads of state from South Korea, Ethiopia, Vietnam and the Netherlands. In co-operation with the World Economic Forum (WEF), P4G is mobilising proj ...

st LD Writethru: China, Britain agree to support WHO's role in combating COVID-19

Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke over phone on Monday night and voiced support for the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Worldwide collaboration aims to curb biodiversity decline, improve Indigenous peoples' health

A project based out of the University of Alberta aims to follow the wisdom of a Whapmagoostui Cree elder from Quebec — if the land is not healthy, how can we be?

World Water Week: Water Cooperation – building partnerships

1 - 6 September 2013, Stockholm, Sweden

World Tourism Day 2020

27 September 2020, New York, United States of America

World Tourism Day 2019

27 September 2019, Madrid, Spain

World Tourism Day

27 September 2023, Madrid, Spain

World Soil Day 2019

5 December 2019, Rome, Italy

World Soil Day

5 December 2023, Bonn, Germany

World Migratory Bird Day 2020

9 May 2020, Bonn, Germany

World Migratory Bird Day 2018: "Unifying our Voices for Bird Conservation" (http://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/en)

10 May 2018, Bonn, Germany

World Intellectual Property Day 2018: "Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity" (http://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/)

26 April 2018, Geneva, Switzerland

World Health Day

7 April 2013, Multiple Venues

World Health Day

7 April 2014

World Habitat Day 2019

7 October 2019, Nairobi, Kenya

World Food Day 2020

16 October 2020, Rome, Italy

World Food Day 2019

16 October 2019, Rome, Italy

World Food Day

16 October 2021, Rome, Italy

World Environment Day 2020

5 June 2020, Nairobi, Kenya

World Environment Day 2019

5 June 2019, Nairobi, Kenya

World Environment Day

5 June 2015, Nairobi, Kenya

World Environment Day

5 June 2023, Nairobi, Kenya

World Economic Forum 2019

22 - 25 January 2019, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2019

17 June 2019, Bonn, Germany

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

17 June 2023, Bonn, Germany

World Cities Day 2019

31 October 2019, New York, United States of America

World Cities Day

31 October 2023, New York, United States of America

World Bee Day 2020

20 May 2020, New York, United States of America

Workshop to develop a road map for supporting the implementation and monitoring of and capacity development for ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

22 - 24 November 2023, Rome, Italy

Workshop on the recently completed assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

13 October 2023, Nairobi, Kenya

Workshop on synergies among the biodiversity-related conventions

8 - 11 February 2016, Geneva, Switzerland

Workshop for Subnational, Regional and Local Governments on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 1-3 April 2020, Edinburgh, Scotland

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/OH/SM/88701 (2020-020)
To: CBD National Focal Points

With its focus on mainstreaming biodiversity and issues being discussed at SBSTTA-20 and SBI-1, the May 2016 edition of [square brackets], the CBD newsletter for Civil Society, is now available online.

Wildlife Conservation Society Partners with Convention on Biological Diversity

Montreal, 6 October 2010 – To mark the first high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly devoted to biodiversity, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) hosted a high-level reception on 21 September at the Central Park Zoo, Manhattan, New York. The event served also as a celebrati ...

While 87% of consumers surveyed worldwide want companies to adopt sourcing policies that respect biodiversity, only 27% of the top 100 beauty and personal care companies actually mention biodiversity on their websites or in their corporate sociability reports, according to the newly launched 2014 Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) Biodiversity Barometer.

We, the Heads of State/Government of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on the occasion of the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, on 6 September 2016.

WWF-Malaysia, Sabah sign deal on forest conservation

The State Government has signed a MoU with WWF-Malaysia to enhance inclusive conservation practices in Sabah focusing on biodiversity conservation and maintaining forest ecosystem integrity through responsible forest governance.

Value of cooperation for sustainable development in transboundary river basins

Can cooperation across sectors and countries help to achieve sustainable development? How do stakeholders in the Indus and Zambezi basins envision the future and how can they make that future a reality? IIASA researchers looked into these questions as part of a large-scale initiative with intern ...

Update on UNEP project on synergies among biodiversity-related Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/fd/81476 (2014-138)
To: CBD National Focal Points

United States announces partnership to reduce ocean plastic pollution in Indonesia

The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program, joined Circulate Capital, an impact-focused investment management firm, and Prevented Ocean Plastic Southeast Asia (POPSEA), a plastic recycling company that is developing sorting and ...

United Nations Secretary General welcomes COP10 Outcomes

Reference: SCBD/OMG/NP/74306 (2010-201)
To: All CBD Focal Points, All CBD Partners

Secretary-General Welcomes Adoption of Historic Protocol to Biological Diversity Convention on Access, Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources.

United Nations General Assembly resolutions highlight contribution of the Convention on Biological Diversity for oceans agenda and implementation of Rio + 20 outcomes

Montreal 21 December 2012. The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly has recognized the importance of recent decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including those dealing with implementation of the global oceans agen ...

United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation 2020

12 September 2020, New York, United States of America

United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation

19 December 2013, Mulitple Venues