The other two Rio conventions, on biological diversity and combating desertification, have proved equally disappointing.
"The question of preserving biological diversity is on the same scale as climate protection, " she said.
The agreement, the Cartagena Protocol, is part of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
This 2011 International Biological Diversity Day marks the launch of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.
The report will differ from efforts to determine how much biological diversity a region holds.
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was inspired by the world community's growing commitment to sustainable development.
On Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity won a temporary court injunction halting the implementation of the settlement.
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Already, however, a battle has broken out between WildEarth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson, Ariz.
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The site also has an exceptionally high level of biological diversity and endemism.
The plaintiffs in the Monterey shale lawsuit were the local chapters of the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity.
We also have the platform of Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ) which has been running for twenty years.
First filed by the Center for Biological Diversity in 2002, the Bush administration delayed consideration of the petition for six years.
The conclusions of the forthcoming report of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Global Biodiversity Outlook 3) will be presented.
Protect and restore the integrity of Earth's ecological systems, with special concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain life.
This is our message for the 2012 International Day for Biological Diversity.
Of course, the Center for Biological Diversity is not a dispassionate observer.
Governments should be supporting it but it really has come out independently from both the Forest Principles and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
For example, one of my clients gives generously to organizations that work to protect endangered species and to conserve the biological diversity of public lands.
Preserving biological diversity, especially marine biodiversity, is essential in this struggle.
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.
Preserving biological diversity lies at the heart of the new vision of sustainable development that the world needs from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.
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.
At a second side event, UNESCO and the Secretariat of the CBD provided an update on their joint programme of work on biological diversity and cultural diversity.
UNESCO, through its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) Programme, is working to bring recognition to this issue, and to demonstrate the link between cultural and biological diversity.
The presentation of the Cook Islands expert highlighted the interactive on-line databases of biological diversity and Maori languages which could also contribute to the ICH safeguarding and inventory-making efforts.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club had also sued Kern County last October over its green-lighting of the 300-megawatt North Sky River project.
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"The grim news about polar bears and sea ice decline is horrifying, but it is a call to action, not despair, " said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity.
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But it acquired its key global pledge during the Johannesburg summit of 2002, when governments agreed to achieve a "significant reduction" in the rate of biological diversity loss by 2010.
"This decision is a watershed event because it has forced the Bush administration to acknowledge global warming's brutal impacts, " said Kassie Siegel, climate program director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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