Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD) 
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International conference on “biodiversity in relation to food and human security in a warming planet”: Chennai declaration
International conference on “biodiversity in relation to food and human security in a warming planet”: Chennai declaration. The conference held at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai from 15 to 17 February 2010.
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- Feb 2010
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- M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
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Copenhagen to Nagoya
Diversity of opinion blocking deal on diversity
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- 14/01/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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India set to lead effort for binding biodiversity treaty
Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: Even before the dust has settled on the controversial Copenhagen climate deal, India is set to take the lead in pushing for a single legally binding treaty for access to and benefit sharing of biological resources at the 10th Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to be held at Nagoya, Japan, in October.
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- 05/01/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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India to host 11th COP on biodiversity in 2012
As a mark of its commitment to biodiversity conservation, India will host the eleventh Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October 2012. Called ‘Rio + 20’ CBD Conference, the COP, to be held in New Delhi, will also commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit, held in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.
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- 05/01/2010
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Making protected areas relevant
Protected area integration entails a two-fold process. The first involves linking protected areas within a broader network of protected and managed lands and waters in order to maintain ecological processes, functions and services. The second involves incorporating protected area design and management into
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- Jan 2010
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- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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REDD realities: how strategies to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation could impact on biodiversity...
This publication includes independent monitoring reports on the development of national strategies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation by NGOs and Indigenous Peoples' Organizations from 9 different developing countries, as well as links to reports by NGOs in 3 additional countries.
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- Dec 2009
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- Global Forest Coalition
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Report of the indigenous peoples’ global summit on climate change
This report contains the proceedings of an Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change - hosted by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in collaboration with the UN University - Institute of Advanced Studies Traditional Knowledge Initiative (UNU-IAS TKI) and other partners. The Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change was held in Anchorage, Alaska, from 20 – 24 April 2009.
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- Dec 2009
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- UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative
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Scientific synthesis of the impacts of ocean acidification on marine biodiversity
The surface ocean plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing approximately one quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and other human activities. As more and more anthropogenic CO2 has been emitted into the atmosphere,
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- Dec 2009
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- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Biodiversity’s bright spot
While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction.
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- Nov 2009
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- Nature Vol: 462 Issue: 7271 pp: 266-269
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Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short
With nations admitting that they will fail to achieve their goal of significantly cutting biodiversity loss by 2010, a flurry of work is under way to develop new, more robust targets and ways of monitoring progress. These must be ready by next October, when the 193 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD) meet in Nagoya, Japan.
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- Nov 2009
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- Nature Vol: 462 Issue: 7271 pp: 263
