The Biodiversity Challenge

In addition to the ongoing biodiversity management project, a one year project for establishing a strategy for safeguarding biodiversity funded by the Global Environment Fund was initiated in 1997.

29. With regard to the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the European Union believed that the design and implementation of national strategies, plans and programmes, in accordance with article 6 of the Convention, continued to be of particular importance.

The Union is continuing to pursue its Strategy against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, which was adopted in December 2003.

The European Union would participate actively in implementing the multi year programme aimed at mitigating the negative effects of agriculture on biodiversity.

(i) Preparation of the development of a global strategy on alien species that threaten marine and coastal biological diversity

At the 1996 Conference of the Parties, it had been decided that such national strategies should include conservation of biological diversity in situ and ex situ, integration of biodiversity into relevant sectoral policies and equitable distribution of the benefits derived from the use of genetic resources.

CBD Convention on Biological Diversity

25. With regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the development and implementation of national strategies, plans and programmes in accordance with article 6 of the Convention were of particular importance.

Convention on Biological Diversity Convention on Biological Diversity, 5 June 1992, http www.biodiv.org doc legal cbd en.pdf.

The nearly 200 member Convention of Biological Diversity which embodies the global consensus on the need to protect ecological diversity aims to do just that. The CBD s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity calls for the formal protection of at least 17 of the most ecologically important terrestrial areas, while the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation seeks to protect 60 of plant species.

In 2004 UNIDIR started two major projects A Strategy for European Action on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War and Reinforcing EU Cooperative Threat Reduction Programmes Community Action in Support of the European Union Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Those plans include Yemen's Strategic Vision through 2025, the national strategy for youth integration, the national strategy for literacy and adult education, the gender strategy in agriculture and food security and the national population plan for 2001 2020.

CBD CBD Financial Statements.

It had also included mine action in its multiannual programme and strategy for the period 2005 to 2007.

61 203. International Year of Biodiversity, 2010

Among the many issues on the agenda, the Commission discussed its possible contribution to the future European marine strategy and a number of issues related to marine biodiversity.

What he understood was that biological diversity crop diversity is the biological foundation of agriculture.

1. Declares 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity

The Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted international guidelines on biological diversity and tourism in 2004.

This is part of the Union's strategy.

The conservation of biological diversity remained a top priority for Malaysia as a member of the Group of Like Minded Megadiverse Countries, it was deeply concerned by the destruction of that diversity.

Biological diversity.

Biological diversity

The role of traditional knowledge is an important aspect to be taken into account in any national conservation strategy.

In 2002, Estonia joined the European Union framework programme that is used to implement the European Community gender equality strategy (2001 2005).

The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere programme, which is being implemented through UNDP, UNEP and the GEF, should be viewed as an activity complementary to the numerous national biodiversity strategies and action plans developed for the Convention on Biological Diversity at the national level.

Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Johannesburg commitment to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010

Effective consultation and mutual cooperation should be promoted under the national action programmes (NAPs) (UNCCD), National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) (CBD) and national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) (UNFCCC).

f Contribution to a research project entitled Reinforcing EU Cooperative Threat Reduction Programme Community Action in Support of the European Union Strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and a research project entitled, European Action on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War.

Marine biodiversity

Convention on Biological Diversity

Biodiversity resources

In addition, traditional knowledge is an important component of the thematic programmes of work on agricultural biodiversity, forest biological diversity, marine and coastal ecosystems, inland waters, and dry and sub humid lands established by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

LONDON In this, the United Nations International Year of Biological Diversity, and with the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan, it is clear that the environmental challenges we face are severe and increasing, and that the need for action has never been more urgent.

These include crop rotation, increased crop diversification, and introducing integrated pest management systems.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

However, development of aquaculture should be fully integrated into national strategies because it affected fish stocks, biodiversity and pollution.

Under the European Union (EU) Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova, signed in February 2005, his Government was committed to following the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and its export control regimes.

It should also be noted that the Convention on Biological Diversity is in the process of developing goals and targets for its expanded programme of work on forest biological diversity, based on its Strategic Plan, in order to facilitate evaluation of progress in the implementation of its mission to achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and national levels.

There is also diversity related to the strategies of the world apos s major firms.

The Price of Biodiversity

The Biodiversity Bargain

(h) Convention on Biological Diversity

CBD Convention on Biological Diversity