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#5888Press Release
#84092004-11-16
Inter-Parliamentary Union unanimously adopts a resolution affirming the role of parliaments in preserving biological diversity.
In its 111th session the Interparliamentary Union unanimously adopted a resolution that affirmed the role of parliaments in preserving biological diversity, focusing on a number of key areas of the work of the CBD
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#2034Primer Programa Regional Latinoamericano de Capacitación en Derecho y Políticas Ambientales
6 - 11 December 2004, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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#2143Panel Discussion and Book Lunch: Whose Rules of the Game? Bioprospecting and Drug Research in Developing Countries
19 April 2005, New York, United States of America
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#2168Second Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Aarhus Convention
25 - 27 May 2005, Almathy, Kazakhstan
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#2205Second Regional Latin-American Training Programme on Environmental Law and Policies
25 July - 5 August 2005, Panama City, Panama
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#2152Course on International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy
14 - 26 August 2005, Joensusu, Finland
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#2372Forty-fifth Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization
3 - 8 April 2006, New Delhi, India
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#2368114th Inter-Parliamentary Assembly and related meetings
7 - 12 May 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
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#2369178th session of the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
8 - 12 May 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
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#2413Seventh meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
12 - 16 June 2006, New York, United States of America
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#2346UNITAR's Fellowship Programme on International and Comparative Environmental Law
17 July - 4 August 2006, Budapest, Hungary
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#323425th Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF)
16 - 20 February 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
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#2166COP 10
2010-10-19
The Future of Environmental Law
The event will see the launch of a publication on the title 'Future of Environmental Law' that captures the experiences, lessons learnt from developing and implementing legal istruments and provides a futures scenario from current and innovative areas of science and technology.
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#2159COP 10
2010-10-20
European research supports international biodiversity governance
Research funded by the European Union contributes to international biodiversity governance in many ways. In this side event we present three such projects. The first shows how biodiversity conservation alleviates poverty in the highland regions of Asia. The second examines issues of scale in bio ...
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#1962COP 10
2010-10-20
Analysis of the biodiversity effects of different policy options. A contribution to the TEEB report
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) worked out 9 policy options that could contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of global biodiversity and a few ecosystem goods and services. Policy options are defined here as alternative pathways for policymakers along which to i ...
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#2100COP 10
2010-10-20
Design your tailor-made MAT! Presentation of a model ABS Agreement for non-commercial research with optional clauses and Launch of the report on the ABS program 2003-2010 of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
The Swiss Academy of Sciences presents the first of its kind ABS agreement on Mutually Agreed Terms, containing Model Clauses. The Agreement is adapted to the specific situation of non-commercial research sponsored by public funding. It contains a set of contractual clauses that intends to foste ...
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#2280COP 10
2010-10-21
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); status, next steps, and implications for the biodiversity community.
At the 3rd IPBES meeting, held in Busan, Republic of Korea in June 2010, governments agreed to establish a new mechanism to strengthen the interface between science and policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Whilst it will now take a while to become operational, IPBES is likely to signif ...
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#1943COP 10
2010-10-21
The Biosphere Ethics Initiative: incorporating environmental ethics into law, governance and policy
The Biosphere Ethics Initiative (BEI) is a soft law program of the volunteer-driven Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, led by the non-profit organization Center for Humans and Nature, with strong support from the IUCN Comite francais, the Paris nationale Museum ...
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#1817COP 10
2010-10-22
LEGAL AND POLICY TOOLS TO ADAPT BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Employing adaptive management principles and techniques, this side event discusses opportunities to use national legal and regulatory frameworks to adapt biodiversity management to climate change and strengthen resiliency in biodiversity governance. The Environmental Law Institute will release f ...
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#2254COP 10
2010-10-22
Why Global Forest Governance Matters
Forest challenges, such as REDD and access and benefit sharing, are highly cross-sectoral, necessitating engagement across sectors and interests in a complex forest regime. Over the past 10 months, an IUFRO-led Expert Panel on the International Forest Regime carried out a global scientific asses ...
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#2066COP 10
2010-10-22
Science-policy interfaces - examples from Europe
To better interlink biodiversity research and biodiversity policy there are several national science-policy interfaces in different European countries. The German Network Forum for Biodiversity Research and colleagues from Belgium, France, Switzerland and EPBRS present the respective approaches ...
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#2076COP 10
2010-10-22
Governance and rights: What works? Towards effective and equitable conservation for biodiversity and livelihoods
Governance and rights security have significant implications for biodiversity conservation effectiveness and for the livelihoods of people relying on resources within and outside of protected areas. These linkages are recognized in numerous Articles, Programmes of Work, and Guidelines of the CBD ...
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#1935COP 10
2010-10-25
EFFECTIVE BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM POLICY AND REGULATION – BUSINESS INPUT TO THE CBD
In response to the emerging reality of natural resource limits, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, business must anticipate new and changing policies and regulatory frameworks to be developed and deployed by governments to address these pressing environmental challenges. However, busin ...
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#2094COP 10
2010-10-26
Protected Areas and the Law
This side event will present IUCN work on 'Protected Areas and the Law' since COP 9, in particular the Guidelines on Protected Areas Legislation, developed to provide information and guidance on key elements of a modern and effective legal framework, attuned to the present roles and correspondi ...