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ACB hails leaders’ commitment to environment, climate action in ASEAN Summit

The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) commended the renewed commitment of the leaders of the ASEAN Member States (AMS) to environmental protection and climate action during the 35th ASEAN Summit and related summits held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 3 November 2019.

ACTO: Amazon Biodiversity

At this side event will be presented some activities developed in the region in supporting the Aichi Biodiversity Targets implementation. A reference about the Amazon Observatory defined by the ACTO Member Countries will be also presented.

Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on the Review of Implementation of the Convention

5 - 9 September 2005, Montreal, Canada

Africa's global deal for nature

Africa is experiencing a dramatic loss of biodiversity. By the end of this century, climate change alone could cause the loss of over half of African bird and mammal species, and a significant loss of plant species.

African Union: The Great Great Wall Initiative

The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative aims to implement actions to end or reverse land degradation, loss of biodiversity in African drylands and to ensure that ecosystems are resilient to climate change, continue to provide essential services and contribute to human well-being and the eliminatio ...

Agreements reached on actions to integrate biodiversity in forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism sectors and to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

Aichi 2020 in Mongolia

To introduce and share National Biodiversity Action Plan and the Aichi Targets and the progress, results, success And challenges of implementation.

Anne McCall: Be honest about the transformative change needed to save biodiversity

Scotland has just been given the clearest and most objective view of how its remarkable natural heritage and ecosystems are faring in the modern world.

Anticipating hastened global action in integrating conservation in dev't sectors

Following the agreement of 196 countries during the UN Biodiversity Conference to ensure the achievement of global biodiversity targets through actions at the global, regional, national, and sub-national levels, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) Executive Director Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim ex ...

Asian Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

16 - 17 March 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Assessment of funding needs for the implementation of the Convention gets under way

Montreal – 3 August 2011. The team of experts appointed to prepare an assessment of funding necessary and available for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the period July 2014 to June 2018 held its first meeting at the premises of the Convention Secretariat in Montr ...

Attempt to mainstream biodiversity in Costa Rica and cooperation by JICA

There is nothing for developing for survival but to produce destruction of ecology... That is the cause of crisis of biodiversity today. Most of Rainforest holding terrestrial biodiversity exists in developing countries. In these areas, growth of economy at higher speed is desired. But it is app ...

Beijing biodiversity meet to debate '30 percent by 2030' target

Ahead of a crucial global meet on biodiversity next year, a group of 13 international conservation organizations urged governments to set an ambitious target to protect the world's natural sites and wildlife population.

Biodiversity and people attacked by disasters and conflicts: A challenge for the implementation of the Convention

WGRI4 requested the Executive Secretary to undertake "a review of the short- and long-term impacts of disasters and conflicts on biodiversity and ways and means to take actions for implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets under such ...

Biodiversity in 2020: the biggest threats and opportunities

What are the biggest emerging opportunities and threats the coming year holds for efforts to conserve biodiversity? Nearly two dozen scientists, conservation professionals and future scanners recently came together to answer that question as part of an annual “horizon scan” led by Cambridge Univ ...

Call for Posters on progress achieved towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 4-17 December 2016 – Cancun, Mexico

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/RH/MC/85928 (2016-101)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

Call tor Posters - National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and the 2010 Biodiversity Target.

Reference: SCBD/ITS/DC/CI 58146 (2007-050)
To: all CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that a poster session will be held during the second meeting of the Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI-2) on the theme of implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans and their contribution (NBSAPs) to t ...

Cameroon launches second phase of biodiversity conservation project

The second phase of the Integrated and Transborder Conservation of Biodiversity in the Basins of the Republic of Cameroon basins, TRIDOM II. The project was launched on Tuesday December 19 in Sangmelima by the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife in partnership with the United Nations Development P ...

Can tokenization and other fintech initiatives help save the planet’s biodiversity?

Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance (SDFA) – a non-profit organisation with a high-level Advisory Board co-chaired by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP and Ant Financial Services Group – has launched its “Fintech for Biodiversity Challenge” to identify fintech companies across the globe ...

Capacity Development Workshop for Central Asia on NBSAPs and the Mainstreaming of Biodiversity

9 - 13 March 2009, Ramsar, Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Capacity-Building Workshop on Implementing NBSAPs and Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Europe

26 - 30 April 2008, Vilm, Germany

Capacity-Building Workshop on Implementing NBSAPs and Mainstreaming Biodiversity for South America

31 March - 4 April 2008, Rio Branco, Brazil

Capacity-Building Workshop on Implementing NBSAPs and Mainstreaming Biodiversity for South, Southeast and East Asia

14 - 18 January 2008, Singapore City, Singapore

Capacity-Building Workshop on Implementing NBSAPs and Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Southern and Eastern Africa

4 - 8 February 2008, Rustenburg, South Africa

Capacity-building Workshop for Central African Parties on Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/ITS/EB/MC/64356 (2008-075)
To: CBD National Focal Points (Central Africa)

I am pleased to inform you that a regional workshop for countries of Central Africa on “Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity” will be held in Limbé, Cameroon, from 22 to 25 September 2008. This workshop is being organized by t ...

Capacity-building Workshop for Central American Parties on Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/ITS/MC/62534 (2008-026)
To: CBD National Focal Points (Central America)

I am pleased to inform you that a regional workshop for countries of Central America on “Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity” will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, from 26 to 27 March 2008, organized by the Secretariat of the C ...

Capacity-building Workshop for National Focal Points

8 July 2007, Paris, France

Capacity-building Workshop for South American Parties on Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/ITS/MC/62110 (2008-016)
To: CBD National Focal Points (South America)

I am pleased to inform you that a regional workshop for countries of South America on “Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity” will be held in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, from 31 March to 4 April 2008, organized by the Secretariat ...

Capacity-building Workshop for the Caribbean region for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), Mainstreaming of Biodiversity and the Integration of Climate Change

3 - 7 November 2008, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Central Africa: EU Grants €20 Million for Biodiversity Protection

Biodiversity protection programmes in Central Africa will receive a €20 million grant from the European Union. Three grant contracts have been signed in this regard.

Central American Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

2 - 3 March 2015, Managua, Nicaragua

Changing behaviour towards nature to keep biodiversity

As far as I've remember, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon emphasised the importance of giving priority to considering biodiversity issues when making decisions in all sectors. Biodiversity must be the basis for establishing other goals, not an idea that comes up after other goals have bee ...

Dates and venue: Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 24), 17 to 22 August 2020, and Third Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 3), 24 to 29 August 2020, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/88792 (2020-033)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Delegations of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet at the fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI-5), and the eighteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-18).

EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

Conscious of the need to avert global biodiversity loss, on May 3, 2011, the European Commission adopted a new strategy to halt the loss of biodiversity, known as EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 (EUBS).

EU Commission seeks global coalition to protect biodiversity

On the occasion of the World Wildlife Day, the European Commission reiterated its invitation on March 3 to all world institutions to raise their voices to build the momentum for nature and help convince more governments to be ambitious at the crucial Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Pa ...

Eastern European Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

22 - 23 June 2015, Georgia

Ecosystem Networking with the ‘Aichi Method’ ― Aichi’s Pragmatic Approach to Biodiversity as a Sub-national Government

Part I: Presentation by the Governor of Aichi Prefecture Part II: Panel Discussion by representatives from various regions about achieving the ‘Aichi Targets’ and the possibilities and challenges for sub-national governments concerning biodiversity

Egypt initiative to integrate Rio conventions is imperative: Environment Minister

Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has highlighted the importance of the initiative set out by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to achieve integration between the three Rio conventions.

Enhanced implementation, mainstreaming, key issues at first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation to the Convention on Biological Diversity

The first meeting of the new Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-1) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will open today, focusing on increasing efforts related to strengthening the review process and enhance on-the-ground implementation at global, national, sub-national and local ...

Ensuring Compliance of All Parties With Their Reporting Obligations on the Implementation of the 2010 Biodiversity Target

Manama, Bahrain, 12 April 2010-At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, world leaders agreed to substantially reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. The 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity decided to submit before March 2009 a national report on the implementat ...

Expert Group Meeting on the Full Assessment of Funding Necessary and Available for the Implementation of the Convention for the period July 2018 to June 2022

17 - 18 February 2016, New Delhi, India

Expert Workshop on enhancing biodiversity data and observing systems in support of the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

12 - 13 October 2013, Montreal, Canada

Experts call for efforts to protect plant species and habitats

Efforts should be stepped up to support the strategic goal of global plant conservation, said experts at an international forum that ended Wednesda

FAO publishes voluntary guidelines to assure resilience to crop loss

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations recently published new guidelines aimed at assuring crop diversity and farmers’ resilience to plant genetic resource loss. Called the Voluntary Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Farmers’ Varieties/Landraces, t ...

FEATURED: Tracking Rwanda’s progress towards biodiversity conservation targets

Rwanda made remarkable achievements in biodiversity conservation from 2016 to 2020 according to the 6th report on the status of implementing the ‘Biological Diversity Convention’.

Faced with Biodiversity Crisis, a New Vision Is Urgently Required

Montreal, 25 May 2010. In the wake of the release of the United Nations Global Biodiversity report on the status of biodiversity in 2010, which highlighted the grave state of the variety of life around the world, representatives of world Governments are meeting this week in the United Nations O ...

Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention

16 - 20 June 2014, Montreal, Canada

Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 5), 16 to 20 June 2014 and Eighteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 18), 23 to 28 June 2014, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/SAM/TSI/RS/VA/82995 (2014-029)
To: UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs and Indigenous Organizations

Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 5), 16 to 20 June 2014, and Eighteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 18), 23 to 28 June 2014, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/SAM/TSI/RS/VA/82995 (2014-008)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points