All Blog Posts Tagged 'Nagoya' (6)

I would like to invite you to participate in the World Wide Views (WWViews) on Biodiversity process. WWViews on Biodiversity wants to address and discuss the challenges that impede the safeguarding of biodiversity. 

WWViews on Biodiversity is an ambitious, global citizen participation project on global biodiversity policies and actions. The project is coordinated by the Danish Board of Technology, with support from Biofaction (Markus…

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The Biodiversity Media Alliance held its formal launch event at the COP10 biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan yesterday (27 October).



The 30-minute event was filmed and can be watched online here.



The Biodiversity Media Alliance is a partnership between IUCN, Internews and the International… Continue

How can we ensure decision-makers and climate negotiators understand the ecological implications of their decisions? This was a question that arose during the lively discussion in the REDD+ Hour here at the CBD CoP10 in Nagoya today. My worry is that most negotiators and the ministers they report to (most of whom are lawyers, economists or politicians with little training in ecology) appear to regard biodiversity as an optional extra in REDD, one of the bonus benefits included in the +…

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Why is the UN’s big biodiversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan so important? Because the environment and human wellbeing are two sides of the same coin. Read the rest of this post at Under the Banyan.

This press release was just issued by the secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity today (21 Sept)



One step further towards the adoption of the Aichi Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing



Montreal, 21 September 2010 – Working late into the night, Governments continued to negotiate the core issues for an international protocol on the provision and use of the genetic resources of the planet. The drafting committee… Continue

UN CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - PRESS RELEASE



Montreal 15 September 2010. Next month, governments from around the world will gather in Nagoya, Japan to make three key decisions that will determine whether current and future generations continue to benefit from nature’s riches.



On the table is a comprehensive ten-year strategy that – if enacted – would revolutionise the way we manage and interact with the world about us, and… Continue