Sentences with phrase «conventions on biodiversity»

The transition from Thomas Jefferson's belief that mammoths still roamed the Earth to international conventions on biodiversity protection is told in a brisk style, packing in facts, dates and historical insights without ever becoming ponderous.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

The report is part of India's obligatory response as a signer of the Convention on Biodiversity.

LAST week's conference of the UN Convention on Biodiversity appeared to ban future efforts to geoengineer the planet to counter the effects of climate change.

That report highlighted the UN Convention on Biodiversity as a potential tool with which to regulate gene drives, including how, when and even whether they are deployed.

Last week's conference of the UN Convention on Biodiversity appeared to ban any future efforts to «geoengineer» the planet to counter the effects of climate change.

In late 2010, a meeting of the UN Convention on Biodiversity imposed a moratorium on any form of geoengineering that might affect biodiversity.

Representatives from 138 countries had met in Cartagena to work out a Biosafety Protocol, as called for by the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.

Synergies are strongly encouraged between the three so - called Rio conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)- to widen the impact of measures undertaken.

• The international Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), a 164 - nation treaty, focuses on invasive species as one of its primary areas.

Late last week at the Convention on Biodiversity a resolution was adopted which places a moratorium on geoengineering unless it can be proven that the method in question can be shown to not have an adverse effect on

The Convention on Biodiversity and Law of the Sea have not succeeded in advancing their respective causes, but my personal view is that the U.S. has abdicated its responsibility by not ratifying, giving other nations even more cover to behave with extremely narrow viewpoints of national sovereignty, from Russia to China to Brazil to India.

In hopes of countering the notion that environmental systems are literally priceless — that is to say, without an agreed upon monetary value — the 10th UN conference for the Convention on Biodiversity aims to quantify nature in economic terms.

The Convention on Biodiversity hopes their latest report will help establish a new international goal for curbing the loss of biodiversity by 2020.

Some 20,000 government officials, environmentalists and business people from around the world gathered in the eastern city of Pyeongchang on Monday for a U.N. environmental convention on biodiversity, the environment ministry said.

The EPBC Act, passed in response to the international Convention on Biodiversity, provides a legal framework to protect and manage matters of national and international environmental significance including:

Not exact matches

With luck and some hard preparatory work, nations will face these issues at Rio and sign conventions on climate change, forests, biodiversity and biotechnology.

Because of the increasing loss of agricultural biodiversity on a global scale, the Convention on Biological Diversity has developed a work programme on this subject in 1996.

Last year, the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity issued a statement forbidding geoengineering research that may impact biodiversity.

The 193 signatories to the convention agreed to outlaw such geoengineering projects «until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities and appropriate consideration of the associated risks for the environment and biodiversity and associated social, economic and cultural impacts».

Despite these dismal results, the authors say the study underscores opportunities to achieve goals set by the Convention on Biological Diversity to protect 10 percent of marine biodiversity by 2020.

The study compared the position of Antarctic biodiversity and its management with that globally using the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) Aichi targets.

In 2002, world leaders committed, through the Convention on Biological Diversity, to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

Meanwhile, marine conservationists are hoping that a related effort — a new proposed agreement to protect high seas biodiversity under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — will help further the cause.

A group of scientists have developed a three - point plan to ensure the world's protected areas meet new biodiversity targets set by the 193 signatory nations of the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD).

In 2002 nations pledged, under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, to slow significantly the planetary loss of biodiversity by 2010.

At the time of the research no clear legal guidelines existed in France, but a new French biodiversity law is now to «implement the 2010 Nagoya Protocol, which complements the international Convention on Biological Diversity and aims to guarantee a greater control of the states rich in biodiversity, and their indigenous populations, over how their biodiversity resources are used and an equitable sharing of the benefits.»

Two years after setting targets in Aichi, Japan, for saving global biodiversity, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity has struck its first deal on how to pay for the goals.

Ms. Barbut said the decision puts the Desertification Convention on par with the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, both of which have their own targets.

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of the components of biodiversity and the equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the use of genetic resources.

Some international groups are helping to foster synergies, including the World Health Organization's recent conference on Climate and Health, the Convention on Biological Diversity's initiative on Health and Biodiversity, the Lancet - Rockefeller Commission on Planetary Health, and the DIVERSITAS - Future Earth ecoHEALTH project, which brings together public and animal health, development, ecology, economics, and other sectors to investigate connections between health and environmental change to generate science and policy outputs that can inform sustainability solutions.

Recognizing the crucial importance of the conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity as highlighted at the 9th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity held in Bonn, we share the concerns regarding the vulnerability of biodiversity.

To use one example: the first Rio meeting added the Biodiversity Convention to the important arsenal of intergovernmental legal instruments and financing mechanisms on the environment.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

The Aichi targets (within the UN Convention on Biological Diversity) of setting aside marine and terrestrial areas for conservation are also good examples of the political translation of a science based concern over global loss of biodiversity.

He said that though in the international discussions related to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity importance have been given to discussions on climate change, the international climate change discussions have not given similar importance to biodiversity conservation.

Loss of biodiversity could undermine the right to health under instruments such as Universal Declaration of Human, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples to access to the benefits of biodiversity as a resource under instruments such as the Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries and United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This brochure stresses that the Rio Conventions - the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)- acknowledge the important contribution of forests to the achievement of their respective objectives and provides a snapshot of the synergies and linkages with respect to forests between combating climate change and desertification and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) SBSTTA 17: The 17th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice is expected to address, among others, issues related to marine and coastal biodiversity, biodiversity and climate change, and collaboration with the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Servibiodiversity, biodiversity and climate change, and collaboration with the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Servibiodiversity and climate change, and collaboration with the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServiBiodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

This publication on the occasion of the Rio +20 conference highlights the roles of the Rio conventions» processes involved in biodiversity, combating desertification / land degradation and climate change as important contributors to the global sustainable development agenda, drawing attention to successes and future opportunities.

It also presents its major threats and the Convention on Biological Diversity, an international legally - binding treaty which aims to conserve biodiversity and promote its sustainable use and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.

It presents the results of spatial analyses that can assist decision - makers in planning for REDD + in a way that generates multiple benefits, and explores the possible contributions that REDD + can make to the achievement of other policy goals such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the objectives of Peru's National Climate Change Strategy.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Entomologist Chris Ratzlaff on the biodiversity that makes the Vancouver Convention Centre's green roof unique.

In 2010 the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted decision X / 33 stating that «no climate - related geo - engineering activities that may affect biodiversity take place, until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities.»

A key theme of the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that took place two months ago was integrating biodiversity targets into other parts of the United Nations development process.

This report provides background and advice on the integration of biodiversity considerations into the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.

Observers have suggested that Russia's admission that it is developing geoengineering may put it in violation of the UN moratorium on geoengineering projects established at the Biodiversity Convention in 2010 and should be discussed on an emergency basis when the convention's scientific subcommittee meets in Montreal iConvention in 2010 and should be discussed on an emergency basis when the convention's scientific subcommittee meets in Montreal iconvention's scientific subcommittee meets in Montreal in October.

Perhaps the most notable of these at the international level is the Convention on Biological Diversity's Decision XIII / 14 para 6 which notes «that more transdisciplinary research and sharing of knowledge among appropriate institutions is needed in order to better understand the impacts of climate - related geoengineering on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, socio - economic, cultural and ethical issues and regulatory options.»

While preservation of the planet's dwindling biodiversity itself has rightly grabbed the headlines at the ongoing Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan, Science Insider points out an important geoengineering proposal that may or may not be adopted in the final declaration.