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| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
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Tree Planting Initiatives Planned to Offset Environmental Impacts of Biodiversity Meetings.
Following three weeks of meetings of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held in Curitiba, Brazil, the Governor of the State of Paraná, Mr. Roberto Requião, and the Executive Secretary of the Convention, Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, signed an agreement to offset the environmental impact of the participation of the 4,000 delegates, including 122 ministers and other heads of delegation, who attended. Under the agreement, for each participant in the meeting, 2,000 indigenous trees will be planted to offset the environmental impacts. As a result, 8 million trees will be planted in the State of Paraná by the end of this year.
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| Friday, March 31, 2006 |
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A new era of implementation of the Convention on all life on Earth is born in Curitiba at the largest ever gathering of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Curitiba, 31 March 2006 – 4,000 delegates from around the world have agreed on a road map to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, in line with the agreement reached by 110 Heads of State and Government at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002. |
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| Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
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A Global Island Partnership launched by the President of Palau at the Curitiba Biodiversity Conference.
The President of Palau, the President of Indonesia, the Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia, Grenada and Kiribati launched the “Global Island Partnership” aimed at enhancing marine and terrestrial protected areas as a major contribution of achieving the Heads of State commitment to reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2010. |
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| Monday, March 27, 2006 |
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Top Natural History Centers Target the 2010 Biodiversity Target.
A new alliance of some of the world’s top research centres and agencies specializing in biodiversity was today enlisted in the battle to save life on Earth. |
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| Monday, March 20, 2006 |
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Strategy to Save Earth’s Life Support Systems Unveiled by UN Body - End to Overfishing up to More Efficient Agriculture Key to 2010 Biodiversity Target.
Curitiba/Montreal, 20 March 2006 –Global Biodiversity Outlook 2, launched today in the Brazilian city of Curitiba at the eighth biannual meeting of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). |
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| Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
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The largest biodiversity meeting in decades meets in Brazil to adopt a roadmap to achieve the 2010 biodiversity target and save life on earth.
Curitiba, 16 March 2006 – The ecological capital city of Brazil, Curitiba will be the host to the largest biodiversity gathering since the World Review Summit of September last year when 154 Heads of state recommitted themselves to reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. More than 3000 delegates and 100 ministers in charge of biodiversity will assemble in Curitiba, Brazil from 20 to 31 March 2006 for the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
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| Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
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Procedure for Media Accreditation (Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
13 - 17 March 2006 And Eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
20 - 31 March 2006 Curitiba, Brazil).
Only bona fide representatives of the mass media – press, photo, radio, television, and film – will be accredited to cover these meetings to be held at the Convention and Exhibition Center (Expo Trade), Curitiba, Brazil. To avoid delays upon arrival at the meeting venue, please submit the form on the reverse side together with a letter of assignment from your Editor/Bureau Chief and a photocopy of your valid professional press card to:
CBD Secretariat, attn Mr. David Ainsworth
413 St. Jacques Street West, Suite 800
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 1N9 Canada
Tel. +1-514-288-2220, Fax +1-514-288-6588
E-mail: secretariat@biodiv.org
Please submit your request no later than 3 March 2006. It should be noted that no double accreditation is allowed (e.g. as press and delegate, or as press and NGO).
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| Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
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Citizens of the world invited to participate in virtual conference and help to sustain life on earth
THE VIRTUAL CURITIBA BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE
January - March 2006 - http://2010.biodiv.org
ACHIEVING THE 2010 TARGET!
CURITIBA – 19 January 2006. Never before in human history has the rate of biodiversity loss been so great. The rate of loss of biodiversity now exceeds 100 times natural rates. For some experts we are on the eve of the greatest extinction crisis. Humans are changing environments to the point that no single species will be spared.
Faced with this frightening reality, 110 Heads of States and Governments committed themselves, in 2002, at the second earth summit in Johannesburg, to “achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on earth.” This was reconfirmed by 154 Heads of States at the 2005 Summit in New York.
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