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Biodiversity protection needs community input
Posted by SciDevNet: T. V. Padma on October 26th, 2012
SciDevNet: A pledge to increase support for biodiversity targets in developing countries is welcome, but care for indigenous people is vital too.
This month's meeting of the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Hyderabad in India, came as a reality check on the capacity of the international community to implement pledges on biodiversity made two years ago in Nagoya, Japan.
At that landmark meeting in Nagoya, countries agreed on 20 global biodiversity...
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FAO to partner CBD on biodiversity
Posted by SciDevNet: T. V. Padma on October 17th, 2012
SciDevNet: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will work together on programmes that address climate change, food security and biodiversity loss.
Two memoranda of understanding (MoU) signed last week (11 Oct) on the sidelines of the 11th Conference of Parties (COP 11) of the CBD in Hyderabad, India, aim to promote partnerships covering research, practice and policy between the two UN institutions.
The first MoU was signed by the CBD, International...
Biodiversity data gaps ‘need bridging’ to meet global targets
Posted by SciDevNet: T. V. Padma on October 11th, 2012
SciDevNet: Global biodiversity targets are in danger of being missed because of inadequate capacity and tools to gather and assess data, an international conference has heard.
The information "is still not there", Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), told a session on scientific approaches to biodiversity at the CBD's 11th Conference of Parties (COP 11) in Hyderabad, India, this week (9 October).
The lack of data may affect the fourth Global...