The 38th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) will precede the 10th meeting of the CMS Conference of the Parties.
28 October 2010: The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, received the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity in recognition of her "special contribution to saving biodiversity during the International Year of Biodiversity."
The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the CBD Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and fair and equitable benefit-sharing is organized by the CBD Secretariat. The agenda includes issues related to capacity building, awareness-raising and compliance procedures. It will be preceded by a capacity-building workshop on the Nagoya Protocol, organized by the CBD Secretariat, to be held from 4-5 June 2011.
The 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (SC) is organized by the CITES Secretariat.
25 October 2010: A new primer on South Africa's approach to biodiversity was launched by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, and the Government of South Africa. The book, entitled “Biodiversity for Development: South Africa's Landscape Approach to Conserving Biodiversity and Enabling Ecosystem Resilience,” highlights tools developed through partnerships between government and civil society in South Africa.
29 October 2010: The 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) concluded on 29 October in Nagoya, Japan, with the adoption of: the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization, which, after seven years of negotiations, sets out rules and procedures for implementing the Convention's third objective; the CBD Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2020, including a mission, and strategic goals and targets aiming to inspire broad-based action by parties and stakeholders; and a decision on activities and indicators for the implementation of the Strategy for Resource Mobilization adopted at COP 9.
23 October 2010: The Secretariats of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) organized Land Day 3 on 23 October 2010, in parallel to the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the CBD, in Nagoya, Japan.
The 37th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) will meet in Bonn, Germany.
21 October 2010: As part of the International Year of Biodiversity, judges from the member States of the EU met in Brussels, Belgium, from 18-19 October 2010, to discuss implementation and enforcement of European biodiversity law, in the framework of the annual conference of the European Forum of Judges for the Environment.
19 October 2010: An advanced prototype of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-supported UN Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (InforMEA) has been presented on the sidelines of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), taking place in Nagoya, Japan. InforMEA is a shared web portal that harmonizes MEA information systems, making it possible to locate and retrieve all decisions and resolutions tagged to a specific term in seconds.
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