The Congress theme will be Nature+, a slogan that captures the fundamental importance of nature and its inherent link to every aspect of people's lives. The Congress will explore many of the most pressing environmental and development challenges from this perspective and how strong and resilient nature is intricately linked to solving these issues, including Nature+climate, nature+livelihoods, nature+energy and nature+economics.
31 March 2011: The World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Committee) has agreed to focus future discussions on five actions to develop private standards in food safety and plant and animal health, and to improve collaboration and information exchange between the SPS Committee and other SPS standard-setting bodies. The agreement was reached in the SPS Committee's meeting on 30-31 March 2011.
10 March 2011: The Governments of Japan and Indonesia co-hosted an international seminar entitled "Challenges of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM): Integrating Environmental, Social and Economic Values of Forests." The seminar, a Country-Led Initiative (CLI) in support of the UN Forum on Forests (UNFF), was held in Tokyo, Japan from 8-10 March, as a collaborative initiative for the 2011 International Year of Forests.
31 March 2011: An international meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, organized by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), has called for better enforcement of wildlife law in the 10 countries in Africa with gorilla populations.
The objective of the workshop is to build capacity to: create a national action plan for implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas; access funding based on these action plans; and strengthen implementation of the Programme of Work on the themes of governance, climate change (including integrating protected areas into the wider land and seascape), sustainable financing, and valuation of the costs and benefits of protected areas, with a focus on marine protected areas where applicable.
30 March 2011: The European Union (EU) is providing 3.1 million Euros to a project on "Environmental Governance to Prevent Deforestation and Promote Forest Conservation of the Colombian Amazon."
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.
28 March 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has released the eighth issue of "Biosafety Protocol News." Marking the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the issue highlights examples of cooperation among Parties and relevant organizations in the Protocol's implementation.
March 2011: A recent UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report, titled "Governing Marine Protected Areas: Getting the Balance Right," highlights the growing recognition in governance debates of the need to move beyond ideological arguments as to which approach is "best" or "right," and to instead develop governance models, frameworks and approaches that combine the role of states, markets and people.
15 March 2011: In the February Issue of its Monthly Bulletin, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) highlights several recent activities, including the opening for signature of the Nagoya Protocol.
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