The agreement, the Cartagena Protocol, is part of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was inspired by the world community's growing commitment to sustainable development.
We also have the platform of Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ) which has been running for twenty years.
The conclusions of the forthcoming report of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Global Biodiversity Outlook 3) will be presented.
Governments should be supporting it but it really has come out independently from both the Forest Principles and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.
This 2020 Challenge was Scotland's response to the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 and the 'Aichi Targets' set by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
Furthermore, the Prize acknowledges Mr Schei's role as facilitator in the dialogue between developed and developing countries in the international environmental arena, especially in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was adopted in 1973, followed by the CMS in 1979 and the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992.
Co-published by UNESCO and UNU, the volume is the product of an inter-agency partnership that also includes the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme.
Those efforts contributed significantly to the outcome of the 10th ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10), held in Nagoya (Japan) in October 2010.
Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.
's Convention on Biological Diversity (the "Biodiversity Treaty").
After a welcome speech from the Ambassador, Robert Lamb of the Swiss Ministry of the Environment gave a brief overview of the current status of the Strategy for Resource Mobilisation under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The launch of GBO-3 comes as governments begin two weeks of talks in Nairobi aimed at formulating new measures to tackle global biodiversity loss that can be adopted at October's Convention on Biological Diversity summit in Japan.
The Nagoya Biodiversity Summit, or 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), marks the 20th anniversary of the CBD and is one of the highlights of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
For the US, playing a leading role in IPBES as advocated in this report may be a critical step towards the long overdue US ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity which is the key platform for international biodiversity policy.
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In 2008, the 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) decided that no further ocean fertilization activities for whatever purpose should be carried out in non-coastal waters until there was stronger scientific justification, assessed through a global regulatory mechanism.
The Convention on Biological Diversity adopted in 1992 applies solely to territories falling under national legislation, although the Convention does have the power to regulate activities taking place in territories beyond national jurisdiction whenever these have an adverse impact on biodiversity.
In January 2010, to launch the IYB, UNESCO organized a high-level event in Paris, launched the official IYB travelling exhibit with a wide range of partners in particular the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Environment Facility, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Airbus.
Along with the FCCC, which established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it also produced three other much lesser-known initiatives the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Statement of Forest Principles, The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and Sustainable Development Agenda 21.
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Neither UNCLOS nor the Convention on Biological Diversity regulates the use of living resources found beyond continental shelves or Exclusive Economic Zones. (Within these Zones, the related provisions of UNCLOS, which favour essentially national interests, would apply.) Living resources in the deep seabed were unknown when UNCLOS was being negotiated.
This is because the current legal and policy regimes under relevant international legal instruments, and especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, do not specifically deal with the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of the biodiversity of the deep seabed.
The grassroots Internet forum On the Frontlines of Climate Change was launched by UNESCO in response to this outcry, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issue (SPFII) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR).
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This manifests in a variety of ways, including the glacial pace of progress on an international, legally-binding climate agreement, the relatively low priority given to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the lack of understanding of the importance of natural capital in ensuring human survival, and the tiny budget allocated to conservation in most countries.
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The IYB activities, including those of UNESCO, contributed significantly to the successful outcome of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) which took place in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010 where a new ten-year strategic plan and a new international treaty on access and benefit sharing from genetic resources were adopted.
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