February 2012: The Global Islands Partnership (GLISPA) has released the February issue of its newsletter, titled "GLISPA Progress Update," which features articles on: the recent GLISPA Steering Committee meeting; the Caribbean Challenge Initiative; the Micronesia Challenge; the Western Indian Ocean Coastal Challenge; GLISPA Plans for Rio+20; and the upcoming 2012 World Conservation Congress.
25 February 2012: World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick met with world business leaders from Singapore, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia to brainstorm initiatives to promote biodiversity by saving the 3,200 remaining wild tigers in Asia from extinction.
24 February 2012: The Global Partnership for Oceans, a coalition of governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private interests, has been launched to address the challenges to oceans management and governance, including over-fishing, marine degradation and habitat loss.
15 February 2012: The Strategic Workshop on the Future Work under the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Water Convention: Building on the Findings of the Second Assessment and Other Results Achieved has identified the consequences of opening the UNECE Water Convention to non-UNECE Countries (“globalization”) as a priority.
24 February 2012: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has launched the Business Ecosystems Training (BET) programme, which aims to build the capacity of corporations to measure, manage and mitigate their impact on the ecosystems where they operate and through their supply chains.
The 11th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), which will convene in New York from 7-18 May 2012, will consider the special theme of "The Doctrine of Discovery: its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests (articles 28 and 37 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)".
The Ministry of Environment of Japan will hold an Informal Pre-Plenary Scientific International Workshop on Assessment and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), in cooperation with the UN University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) and UN University International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (UNU-IHDP). This workshop will seek to help develop an IPBES and bridge the gap between scientific dialogue and international policy. The outcomes of this workshop will be proposed to the second session of a plenary meeting on IPBES, to be held in April 2012.
15 February 2012: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) announced that the third Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Fair will take place on the margins of the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the CBD. The Fair will include two components: exhibition of materials for the UN Decade on Biodiversity; and side events focusing on CEPA as a tool in support of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the UN Decade on Biodiversity.
In preparation for the second session of a plenary meeting on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the Department of Environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in collaboration with the ECO Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ECO-IEST), with support from UNEP and financial support from the Government of Norway, is hosting a regional capacity building workshop and consultative meeting for ECO country members, as well as Asia and the Pacific. The objective of this regional gathering is to provide information on the IPBES process so far, present the agenda and documents for the second session of a plenary meeting and facilitate an exchange of views on these among governmental stakeholders.
23 January 2012: An international workshop on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has addressed neutrality in science, called for transparency and a balanced IPBES, and discussed the inclusion of indigenous and other types of knowledge. The workshop sought to provide input to the intersessional process on the establishment of IPBES.
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