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Some 600 delegates from around the world will gather together in Montreal, Canada, next week to examine the effectiveness of measures taken by Governments to implement the global biodiversity agenda and mainstream biodiversity into sustainable development through implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020. Discussions will focus on policy coherence and the monitoring of progress in achieving the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
With traditional blessings by the Elders of the local Mohawk Community of Kahnawake setting the scene, governments, indigenous peoples and local communities from around the world will meet in Montreal, Canada, next week to develop guidelines that will assist Parties and governments to develop national measures for the protection, promotion and use of traditional knowledge relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it underpins can be the basis for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies as they can deliver benefits that will, according to the outcomes of a recent technical workshop on ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, increase the resilience of people to the impacts of climate change.
Poverty eradication is one of the greatest global challenges facing us today. Fortunately, the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of biodiversity can provide solutions to a range of societal challenges and is critical to achieving the newly adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Celebrating World Food Day, under the theme "Social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty", provides an opportunity to emphasize in food systems how biodiversity underpins social protection.
Rural women are integrally connected to all aspects of local biodiversity - as users, custodians and agents of change.
Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the opening of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative National Capacity Development Workshop for Namibia, Swakopmund, Namibia, 13 - 16 October 2015
The first internationally recognized certificate of compliance was issued on 1 October 2015, following a permit made available to the Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) Clearing-House by India.
Message of the CBD Executive Secretary, Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of the opening of the Sixth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, 5 October 2015, Rome, Italy
Montreal, 28 September 2015 - Two new ratifications this month to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization brings the total number of ratifications to the ground-breaking treaty under the Convention on Biological Diversity to 66.
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