CBD
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
18 October 2010: Following the conclusion of the Biosafety Protocol COP/MOP 5, the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10) opened on 18 October 2010, and will continue until 29 October 2010. The meeting’s agenda includes a series of strategic, substantive, administrative and budgetary issues.
Among several items, the meeting is expected to adopt an international protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS); assess achievement of the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
October 2010: The Government of Australia has reported on a project with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to reduce the national reporting burden in Pacific Island countries for biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). A consolidated reporting template for five of the biodiversity-related MEAs has been developed and trialled.
The simplified reporting process covers the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 October 2010: The 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) concluded on 29 October in Nagoya, Japan, with the adoption of: the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization, which, after seven years of negotiations, sets out rules and procedures for implementing the Convention’s third objective; the CBD Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2020, including...
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26 Apr 2011
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The Steering Committee of the Global Islands Partnership (GLISPA) met from 22-23 February 2011, in Washington, DC, and has issued the report of its meeting.The Steering Committee is co-chaired by the Presidents of Seychelles and Palau and comprised of representatives from the Governments of Grenada, Seychelles and Italy, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),...
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26 Apr 2011
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[UNEP Press Release...
A workshop in Paramaribo, Suriname, trained officials from 17 Caribbean nations in the use of Integrated Environmental Assessments for mainstreaming Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). The workshop took place from 29 March-1 April 2011.The workshop was organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with support from the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Integrating Watershed and Costal Areas Management in Small Island Caribbean Developing States (IWCAM) Project. The training is part...
