Side Event

Biodiversity for Sustainable Development. EC DG Research and UNEP

Organizer
United Nations Environment Programme

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

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

The policy brief titled “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development. EC DG Research and UNEP” will be presented at the side event in collaboration with EC DG Research. A selected speaker will draw attention to best practices and showcase the variety of approaches for the proposed topic. Also, the platform UNEP Live Europe will be presented as an effective tool to promote access to EC DG Research’s findings and to provide EC DG Research with a worldwide scope. UNEP Live is a web-based platform to facilitate the exchange and sharing of up-to-date data, information, assessments and knowledge amongst member countries, research networks, communities of practice, indigenous people, policy-makers and the general public, in order to keep the environment and emerging issues under review. Attendees of this event will gain access to a large amount of information so they will be able to focus specifically on what they are interested in learning. Attendees will interact directly with the presenter(s), receiving immediate answers to their specific questions. They will also be able to establish contacts for further exploration of topics if needed. The session will be composed of a formal presentation of the EC DG Research project, including the presentation of the policy brief “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development” and the UNEP Live Europe Platform, a Q&A and at the opportunity for attendees to interact on a one-to-one basis with the speaker(s).