November 20th, 2011 A new article published by the CBD Secretariat on the new ECO initiative. To answer complex needs of the ECO region, an initiative has been proposed to integrate National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) of all state members of the ECO region in order to develop a Regional Biodiversity Plan of Action (RBPA). This [...]
September 15th, 2011 In a live and interactive web TV programme from New York, two of the key figures driving the response to the planet’s loss of biodiversity will be answering you questions about the UNDB. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Monique Barbut, CEO and Chair of the Global Environment Facility [...]
June 14th, 2011 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), together with 17 multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), has launched a new webportal, titled "InforMEA," that draws information from the MEAs’ individual websites to permit a user to search for information related to decisions and resolutions, news and events, meeting calendars, and national focal points across all of the participating MEAs.
March 21st, 2011 Participants from 21 countries and 19 relevant organizations met in Singapore to discuss biodiversity and indigenous and local community aspects of REDD-plus, including relevant safeguards. The workshop was co-organized by the CBD Secretariat and the National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks), with financial support from the Governments of the United Kingdom, and Germany, and the [...]
December 21st, 2010 During a plenary meeting held yesterday in New-York, the United Nations 65th General Assembly (UNGA) approved the creation of an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
November 1st, 2010 The Asociacion ANDES and the Association of Communities of the Potato Park in announce the upcoming Workshop on ‘Designing, Planning and Implementing Biocultural Territories as Agrobiodiversity Conservation Areas’, to take place in Cusco and the Potato Park, Cusco, Peru November 12 – 23, 2010. This workshop, the second of its kind to be hosted by [...]
October 12th, 2010 During the CBD Conference of the Parties, the Friends of the Conservation Commons are organizing a side event on Removing Barriers and Encouraging Participation in Data Sharing. This will take place on Tuesday 26 October, at 16:30, in Room 236 of Building 2 (on the third floor).
September 23rd, 2010 A rescue package similar to that introduced after the global financial crisis is urgently needed to halt the worldwide loss of biodiversity, which is resulting in a heavy human cost, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today. “We are bankrupting our natural economy,” he told a high-level General Assembly event on biodiversity, held at United Nations Headquarters [...]
August 4th, 2010 On 22 October 2010 a Water Day will be organised by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Rio Conventions’ Ecosystems and Climate Change Pavilion: Promoting synergies between biodiversity, land management and climate change takes place at CBD COP 10 18-29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.
May 10th, 2010 Natural systems that support economies, lives and livelihoods across the planet are at risk of rapid degradation and collapse, unless there is swift, radical and creative action to conserve and sustainably use the variety of life on Earth. That is a principal conclusion of a major new assessment of the current state of biodiversity and [...]
