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[Latest CBD Notifications] To: All CBD National Focal Points Ref.: SCBD/OES/AD/69416 28 ...: audiences interested in the improved management of biodiversity and ecosystems. TEEB is expected to contribute significantly to policy dialogues in support of the CBD.

[IISD Linkages] Summary of the Third Consultation on the UNDP-Regional Bureau for ...: On Wednesday, participants heard morning plenary presentations on the Initiative and the regional report, and in the afternoon they broke out into four working groups to discuss emblematic Venezuelan policies, identify key sectors for promoting investment in biodiversity and ecosystem services and any existing barriers to such investments. Deliberations resumed on Thursday with participants convening in two working groups to first discuss insights from case studies from Paraguay and Indonesia, and then to recommend inputs to the regional report on principal arguments to use, ways to convince decision-makers and dissemination strategies.

[Latest CBD Notifications] To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points Ref.: SCBD/OES/AD/69366 ...: Tuesday 2 February. • Scientific/technical presentations on presenting and arguing for the economic case for biodiversity and ecosystems.

[Institute of Biodiversity Conservation] Institute of Biodiversity Conservation » Blog Archive » Forest ...: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), forests are major reservoirs of terrestrial biodiversity and contain about 50 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biomass carbon stocks. The IPCC further states that emissions from deforestation and degradation remain a significant source (about 18-20%) of annual greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere.

[Wilderness Foundation UK] The Merida Message | Wilderness Foundation UK: Call on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to recognize that large-scale nature conservation is a first-order climate change strategy for both mitigation and adaptation, and is necessary to address both the climate change and biodiversity extinction crises, and to protect and restore the ecosystem services, such as freshwater supply, on which all humans rely.

[BSI Blog] Forest Insurance Against Climate Change | BSI Blog: • Maintain biodiversity at all scales (stand, landscape, bioregional) and of all elements (genes, species, communities) by, for example, protecting tree populations which are isolated, disjunct, or at margins of their distributions, source habitats, and refuge networks. These populations are most likely to represent pre-adapted gene pools for responding to climate change and could form core populations as conditions change.

[Satoyama Initiative] Satoyama Initiative » Blog Archive » Satoyama Initiative - Asia ...: "Satoyama, Sustainable Use and the Ecosystem Approach: Visions for Biodiversity" Spencer Thomas, Chair of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, CBD. download.

[Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] World will miss 2010 target to stem biodiversity loss, experts say ...: Millennium Development Goals to improve health and livelihoods for the world's poorest and most vulnerable people," says Georgina Mace of Imperial College, London, and Vice-Chair of the international DIVERSITAS program, which is convening its 2nd Open Science Conference Oct.

[Institute of Biodiversity Conservation] Institute of Biodiversity Conservation » Blog Archive » GISP ...: A great deal of emphasis has also been attached to the importance of ensuring inter-sectoral co-operation including the formation of inter-ministerial bodies, which is consistent with the 5th operational guidance point in CBD decision V/6. Another important aspect of the ecosystem approach is that it encourages consideration of why management of a biological invasion is necessary and why it should take place before developing a management process.

[Blogs for the NC State Community] NR 406 NEWS BLOG -- Fall 2009 : weblog: A concrete legal mechanism should be in place to protect and sharing of India's biodiversity knowledge of indigenous communities, or else it will become the property of somebody else as per the provisions of existing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), according to professor K V Krishnamurthy, president, Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore.

[Climate Change & Agrobiodiversity Research] Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has launched a synthesis report on the relationship between biodiversity, resilience and stability in forest ecosystems. Resilience is the capacity of a forest to withstand .

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