This training course will focus on multi-stakeholder governance design in forested landscapes. Themes to be addressed include: globalization, increased resource extraction, climate change, collaborative learning, and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The course is organized by the Centre for International Forestry Research and Wageningen University.
29 March 2011: The sixth session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), the Governing Body of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), agreed on the strategic objectives for its new Strategic Framework and decided to revise further the Framework for adoption at CPM 7.
29 March 2011: Over 37,000 mangrove seedlings have recently been planted on the islands of Aranuka, Butaritari, Maiana, Makin and in North and South Tarawa, Kiribati, as part of a project supported by the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), AusAID and the New Zealand Aid Programme with the aim of reducing Kiribati's vulnerability to climate change, climate variability and sea level rise.
March 2011: At its first meeting, the International Working Group on Coastal "Blue" Carbon underscored the need for active and effective measures to protect the large and vulnerable carbon pools stored in seagrasses, tidal marshes, and mangroves, and to restore and reestablish their carbon sequestration capacity.
March 2011: The Forestry Information Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has released a guide on the implementation of International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) in forestry.
23 March 2011: The implementation of a Global Environment Facility (GEF) project has led to the creation of the Bio-Guinea Foundation, a conservation trust fund in Guinea-Bissau supporting management and conservation in protected areas.
23 March 2011: The report of the 31st meeting of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Afforestation and Reforestation (A/R) Working Group, which was held from 14-16 March 2011 in Bonn, Germany, is now available on the CDM website. The Working Group considers matters relating to CDM afforestation and reforestation project activities.
23 March 2011: The UN-REDD Programme Policy Board has agreed, among other things, to approve US$4 million in funding for Ecuador's National Programme for REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks).
22 March 2011: The UN-REDD Programme has released its "2010 Year in Review" report, highlighting progress and achievements of the Programme in its national and global activities on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) and efforts in building international consensus on REDD.
The topic of the 13th Annual BIOECON Conference is "Resource Economics, Biodiversity Conservation and Development." It is hosted by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland, and supported by the founding partners of the BioEcon Network: the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Conservation International, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the IHEID. The conference will include sessions on: plant genetic resources and food security issues, deforestation and development, fisheries and institutional adaptation, development and conservation, wildlife conservation and park pricing, international trade and regulation, most other issues dealing with living resources, developing country issues, and issues dealing with economics and institutions dealing with biodiversity. The conference will also include a policy forum chaired by the Institutional Partners of BIOECON, on the issue of the creation of international mechanisms for financing the conservation of biological diversity. The call for papers and registration information is available at the conference website.
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