18 September 2008: Climate change is a major threat to
migratory waterbirds and international cooperation is required to reduce the
many pressures they face, according to a new report launched at the fourth
Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Agreement on the Conservation of
African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), taking place from 15-19 September
2008, in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
17 September 2008: Forest stakeholders gathered in
Washington, DC, US, on 16-17 September 2008, to agree on a new set of
principles for sustainable forest management (SFM) and its central role in
combating climate change.
16 September 2008: On the occasion of the International Day
for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of
the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), noted the success that the
Montreal Protocol has achieved through international cooperation.
16 September 2008: The European Parliament’s Development
Committee has adopted a report arguing that the budget proposed by the European
Commission to help developing countries fight climate change is not enough, and
suggesting that the Global Climate Change Alliance should receive at least 25%
of the revenue of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
14 September 2008: Speaking at the Sixteenth Environment
Congress for Asia and the Pacific, which took place in Nagoya, Japan, from
13-14 September 2008, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD), underscored the unprecedented rate of biodiversity
loss due to the pressures on the planet’s natural functions caused by human
activity.
11 September 2008: Ahmed Djoghlaf, Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) Executive Secretary, has announced that the first meeting of
the CBD Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Biodiversity and Climate
Change will convene from 17-21 November 2008, in London, UK.
The fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is organized by the CBD Secretariat. The meeting is expected to adopt rules and procedures on liability and redress in the context of Article 27 of the Protocol.
12 September 2008: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
released a tool known as the “Biofuels Sustainability Scorecard” during the
fourth Annual Western Hemisphere Energy Security and Cooperation Forum, held on
9 September 2008, at IDB’s headquarters in Washington, DC, US.
27 August 2008: The third session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term
Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the first part of the
sixth session of the Ad Hoc Working
Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol to
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place from 21-27
August 2008, in Accra, Ghana.
26 August 2008: The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Secretariat met with Ministers from West African countries, from 25-26 August
2008, in Cotonou, Benin, to develop a regional programme for climate change and
biodiversity that provides the region with a more efficient use of resources
from the GEF’s Resource Allocation Framework (RAF).
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