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UNESCO MEETING DISCUSSES FUTURE OF BIOSPHERE RESERVES [viewed]
The third World Congress on Biosphere Reserves, organized by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Spanish Ministry for the Environment, opened on 4 February 2008 in Madrid, Spain, and will finish on 9 February.
Event: Biodiversity Finance [viewed]
Endorsed by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, this conference will explore the issues relating to the developing area of biodiversity finance. The first day of the conference will introduce the biodiversity finance challenge and corporate biodiversity considerations and the second day will focus more closely on the financial service sector and biodiversity.
UNEP LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO REVIEW BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION [viewed]
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership on 12 July 2007, in Paris, France, during the second meeting of the Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
UN FORUM FOCUSES ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS TO TERRITORIES, LANDS AND NATURAL RESOURCES [viewed]
The sixth session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues met in New York, US, from 14-25 May 2007, with the theme “Territories, Lands and Natural Resources.” Over one thousand delegates from seventy countries participated at the forum, which sought to build support for a UN General Assembly vote to endorse a declaration protecting indigenous peoples' land and resource rights.
FAO ORGANIZES MEETING ON ORGANIC AGRICULTURE [viewed]
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized an International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security in connection with the 33rd Session of the Committee on Food Security.
