The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission works with States to conserve and use sustainably biological biodiversity in all marine areas.
The conclusions of the forthcoming report of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Global Biodiversity Outlook 3) will be presented.
Preserving biological diversity, especially marine biodiversity, is essential in this struggle.
's Convention on Biological Diversity (the "Biodiversity Treaty").
Indeed, if the US is to play a leadership role in the IPBES, it could use this position to ensure that business in fully engaged in the development of policies which ensure not only that biodiversity is conserved but that biological resources are used sustainably and responsibility.
FORBES: US getting serious about international biodiversity policy
Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.
Both the Indian and Thai governments are currently drafting biodiversity laws to regulate access to their biological resources and protect traditional medicine.
For the US, playing a leading role in IPBES as advocated in this report may be a critical step towards the long overdue US ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity which is the key platform for international biodiversity policy.
FORBES: US getting serious about international biodiversity policy
This 2011 International Biological Diversity Day marks the launch of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.
In this regard, the agreed objectives of the Convention of Biological Diversity are a particularly useful reference for what business should be doing about biodiversity.
The launch of GBO-3 comes as governments begin two weeks of talks in Nairobi aimed at formulating new measures to tackle global biodiversity loss that can be adopted at October's Convention on Biological Diversity summit in Japan.
This is because the current legal and policy regimes under relevant international legal instruments, and especially the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, do not specifically deal with the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of the biodiversity of the deep seabed.
The Nagoya Biodiversity Summit, or 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), marks the 20th anniversary of the CBD and is one of the highlights of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
Biodiversity components which are to be used sustainably and equitably include landscapes, ecosystems, species and biological resources.
This 2020 Challenge was Scotland's response to the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy for 2020 and the 'Aichi Targets' set by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
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