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#1114012016-12-12
Cancun Communiqué on the Role of Legislators in Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Well-Being
We, legislators gathered together on the occasion of the CBD COP13 Legislators Forum at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, Cancun, Mexico, 2016, on 7 December 2016, have discussed practical strategies and success stories in promoting the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, ...
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#467222008-04-24
Biodiversity Loss—It Will Make You Sick: ‘Sustaining Life’ Identifies Huge Losses to Medical Science from the Decline and Extinction of the World’s Nature-Based Assets.
Montreal/Nairobi, 24 April— A new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for thinning bone disease and kidney failure, and new cancer treatments may all stand to be lost unless the world acts to reverse the present alarming rate of biodiversity loss a new landmark book says.
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#196942006-02-17
"You can count on Brazil to protect the biodiversity of our planet".
Speaking today in New York, where he was meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, hailed the decision of the President of Brazil, H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to place 6.4 million hectares ...
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#150642005-09-12
Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals requires the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
Montreal 12 September 2005 – World leaders and representatives of civil society attending the Millennium Summit in New York this week must take action to conserve and use biological diversity sustainably, and distribute its benefits equitably if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development ...
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#84072004-11-16
SCBD congratulates Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai
SCBD joins the rest of the world in congratulating professor Maathai.
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#62462003-10-17
Statement by the honourable Lee Kah Choon, representative of Malaysia
Environment and sustainable development: Convention on Biological Diversity
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#62362003-05-22
International Day for Biological Diversity<br>Biodiversity and poverty alleviation – challenges for sustainable development
Montreal, 22 May 2003 – On the occasion of this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is reminding the world that, “Biological diversity is essential for human existence and has a crucial role to play in sustainable development and the era ...
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#62332002-08-30
Biodiversity, climate, and desertification regimes strengthened by new parties and funding opportunities
Johannesburg, 30 August 2002 – As delegates in Johannesburg work towards broad agreements on poverty alleviation and sustainable development, three issue-specific treaties that contribute to these goals – the conventions on biological diversity, climate change and desertification – continue to a ...