Chairmans's Report from the conference

• Conclusions and recommendations from presentations and discussions

SCBD Contribution

• Contribution of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Executive Secretary Statement and Presentation

• Statement by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Fifth Trondheim Conference on “Ecosystems and people - biodiversity for development – the road to 2010 and beyond”, Trondheim, Norway, 29 October 2007
• Presentation by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at Norwegian Parliament, Trondheim, Norway, 30 October 2007

Other Statements

• Statement of Her Excelency Marina Silva, Minister of the Environment of Brazil, at the Fifth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity ”Ecosystems and People – biodiversity for development – the road to 2010 and beyond”. Trondheim, Norway, 29 October 2007
• Norwegian State Secretary Heidi Sorensen's opening speech, at the Fifth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity ”Ecosystems and People – biodiversity for development – the road to 2010 and beyond”. Trondheim, Norway, 29 October 2007

Other Presentations

Session 2 Setting the stage

• People and ecosystems Biodiversity for development - Communicating the issues
  By Frits Hesselink, HECT Consultancy, Stakeholder Management for Sustainable Solutions

• The State of our Ecosystems: A view from Sub-global Assessments of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
  By Doris Capistrano, Center for International Forestry Research

Session 3 Looking towards 2010 and beyond

• Study on economic consequences of biodiversity loss -"Stern-inspired BioDiv-Review"
  By Mark Schauer, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany

• The Role of Biodiversity in Reaching the MDGs and the Issue of Trade-offs: How to “Win More and Lose Less”
  By Dr. Charles McNeill, Environment & Energy Group, United Nations Development Programme

• Progress on achieving “a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss
  By Neville Ash, UNEP-WCMC

Session 4 Biodiversity and poverty: obstacles and opportunities

• Ecosystem Services and Rural Poverty Reduction: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
  By Balakrishna Pisupati, United Nations Environment Programme

• How important is biodiversity in the development agenda - a view from the north
  By Maria Berlekom, Swedish International Biodiversity Programme, Sweden

• The Trondheim/UN Conference on Ecosystems and people - Biodiversity for development - The road to 2010 and beyond
  By Adriana Ramos, Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Brazil

• Dryland Management for Poverty Alleviation in Africa
  By Walter J. Lusigi, Senior Adviser, Global Environment Facility/The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Biodiversity, Traditional Medicine and Health
  By Peter Furu, WHO Collaborating Centre for Health and Environment in Sustainable Development

• Biodiversity, grassroots green innovations and poverty alleviation: role of institutions, initiatives and incentives
  By Anil k Gupta, Sristi and Indian institute of management, India

Session 5 Local governance in biodiversity management

• Policies to support local management of natural resources
  By James C. Murombedzi, IUCN

• Local communities and biodiversity management in Africa
  By Hazell Shokellu Thompson, BirdLife International, Africa Partnership Secretariat, Kenya

• Culture, rights and biodiversity
  By Lucy Mulenkei, African Indigenous Women's Network, Kenya

Session 6 Climate change, energy and biodiversity

• Climate change, biodiversity and resilience of social-ecological systems
  By Thomas Elmqvist, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

• Climate change, land degradation and biodiversity in Africa – the challenge remains: how do we reach out to the people?
  By Dr. Juliane Zeidler, IECN, Namibia

• Biofuels – challenges and opportunities
  By Per Ove Eikeland, Fridtjof Nansens Institutt

Session 7 Forest resources and biodiversity

• "Seeing People through the Trees" Recognizing Rights, Advancing Development and Addressing Major Global Challenges
  By Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative

• Measuring and monitoring the flow of forest ecosystem services
  By Manuel Guariguata, Center for International Forestry Research

• Russian Forestry and the Millenium Development Goals
  By Prof.Dr.Ec.Sc., Anatoly Petrov

• Local Forest Governance and Role of Community-Based Forest Management
  By Yam Malla, Executive Director, Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC), Bangkok

• The impacts of market-based biodiversity conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
  By Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition, Paraguay

Session 8 Biodiversity and food production

• Conserving crop biodiversity for a food secure future
  By Ola Westengen, The Global Crop Diversity Trust

• Agro-Biodiversity and Food Security
  By Angeline Munzara, Community Technology Development Trust, Zimbabwe

• Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food production
  By Ms Corazon de Jesus, Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE), The Phillippines

• Integrating Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Function in Agricultural Landscapes
  By Fabrice DeClerck, Columbia University and CATIE, Costa Rica

• Biodiversity, nutrition and health
  By Emile Frison, Director General, Bioversity International

Session 13 Global governance and biodiversity

• Strengthening the scientific basis for the CBD – improving the interface between science and policy
  By Ivar Baste, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

• The role of developing countries in global biodiversity governance
  By Adil Najam, Tufts University, USA

• The role of private business in ecosystem management
  By James Griffiths, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Switzerland