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 [...]
March 26th, 2010 Around 600 delegates representing Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), non-governmental and international organizations, and partners, are currently gathered in the sunny city of Cali in Colombia to give the final push to the negotiations on the international regime to regulate access to genetic resources and the distribution of the benefits derived from [...]
March 17th, 2010 The AEON Environmental Foundation and the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity announced today in Montreal the establishment of the Japan International Biodiversity Award (JIBA) to recognize an individual, community or an organization that has made a distinct contribution to promote the implementation of the objectives of the U.N. Convention on Biological [...]
December 30th, 2009 The sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity will be held February 1-5, 2010, and will consider status and lessons learned from the 2010 target and provide CBD with a sound basis for developing post 2010 biodiversity targets. New targets will be set under CBD and the United Nations in the second half of 2010. The conference [...]
December 16th, 2009 The United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity to promote conservation and sustainable biodiversity. In October, Japan will host the 10th U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, an event held every two years. Biodiversity is defined as the "variability among living organisms from all sources, including diversity within species, between species and of [...]
November 28th, 2009 Meeting on business and biodiversity opens on 30 November 2009 in Jakarta to discuss ways to enhance the engagement of industry in addressing biodiversity globally. This is the third CBD Business and the 2010 Biodiversity Challenge Conference, following the first and second ones, held, respectively, in London and Sao Paulo in 2005. The conference is [...]
November 11th, 2009 With only less than 52 days left before the start of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the website for this unique event in the history of the United Nations was officially launched at a ceremony in Montreal, held with more than 500 participants representing the 193 Parties to the Convention and partner organizations.
November 10th, 2009 Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010) has been launched today to gather opinion from the broad and diverse groups of stakeholders on “how” and “what” actions should be taken in the short and medium term after 2010.
November 9th, 2009 In what will possibly be the most important meeting in the history of the Convention’s Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, over 450 participants are expected to gather in Montreal on Monday, 9 November to continue the negotiation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits [...]
October 5th, 2009 Over 300 delegates from about 100 countries will gather from 5 to 9 October 2009 to participate in the 2nd Ad-hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Over the course of five days, delegates will discuss the development of a mechanism to [...]
