Side Event

Biodiversity: innovations from Africa that will change the world

Organizer
Japan Internation Cooperation Agency

Date and Time
25 October 2010 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10)

Africa is home to more than half the world’s biodiversity. The continent is full of knowledge to maximize the use of abundant nature while living in harmony. Insightful presentations by African delegations, together with JICA’s intervention on its activities in Africa, will provide the participants to COP 10 an opportunity to enrich their views on the ancient question of ‘biodiversity v.s. economic development’. Presentations include that by Gabon, which hosted ‘High level Pan-African Conference on Biodiversity and Fight against Poverty’ in September, 2010.