Side Event

The Nature Diversity Act- Best Biodiversity Policy for the Future Policy Award 2010

Organizer
The Norwegian Ministery of the Environment

Date and Time
28 October 2010 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

The Norwegian Nature Diversity Act entered into force on the 1st. of July 2009. Although it was adopted less than a year ago, The Nature Diversity Act has been nominated as Best Biodiversity Policy for the Future Policy Award 2010. The Act is a following-up of national and international obligations, such as the Convention on Biodiversity.And the Act is the most important law on nature ever made in Norway. For the first time there is an Act concerning both sustainable use and conservation of nature that addresses all sectors of society.