CBD
16 Jan 2012
This workshop will be convened by the CBD Secretariat with financial support from the Government of Japan. Participants will seek to facilitate the description of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas through application of scientific criteria in annex I of COP Decision IX/20 as well as other relevant compatible and complementary nationally and intergovernmentally agreed scientific criteria, as well as the scientific guidance on the identification of marine areas beyond national...
16 Jan 2012
Organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), this workshop aims to: promote awareness of recent developments under the Protocol, including decisions of the meeting of the Parties, and major issues and processes underpinning the Protocol's implementation; review the status of implementation in the Pacific subregion and share experiences, best practices and lessons learned in the development and implementation of national biosafety frameworks; and identify...
16 Jan 2012
Organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety aims to raise awareness and understanding about the Supplementary Protocol and to identify the needs and requirements of parties to the Cartagena Protocol with a view to expediting the early entry into force and implementation of the Supplementary Protocol. It will also...
16 Jan 2012
The 15th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is organized by the CBD Secretariat. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/cbd-sbstta-15/ ]
16 Jan 2012
The CBD Expert Meeting to Develop a Series of Joint Expert Review Processes to Monitor and Assess the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity aims to: identify gaps and barriers in existing monitoring and scientific assessment of those impacts, in terms of their linkages to relevant global policy processes; develop options for addressing identified gaps and barriers, including a proposal for the development of a series of joint expert review processes; and identify...
