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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Resumed Plenary Meeting of the Sixty-Fourth Session of the General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 15 April 2




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CBD Press Release: High-level General Assembly Event to Mark the International Year of Biodiversity.




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CBD News: Draft decision submitted by the President of the General Assembly - High-level meetings of the General Assembly in September 2010




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CBD Press Release: The Arctic Biodiversity Assessment Another Wake Up Call for Action.




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CBD Press Release: International Conference Discusses the Value of Biodiversity for Economic and Cultural Life.




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CBD Communiqué: President-Elect of the Sixty-Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly Visits the Secretariat.




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CBD Communiqué: UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Gisele Bündchen Stresses the Importance of Protecting Earth's Natural Resources in Support of the International Year of Biodiversity.




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CBD News: High-level Meeting of the General Assembly as a Contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity , 22 September 2010.




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CBD Communiqué: UN General Assembly Event to Spur Action to Stem Further Biodiversity Loss.




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CBD UN Press Release: Secretary-General at High-Level Meeting, Stresses Urgent Need to Reverse Alarming Rate of Biodiversity Loss, Rescue 'Natural Economy'. Conservation Inseparable from Fight against Poverty, Says General Assembly President, as




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CBD Press Release: Climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation and land degradation addressed as a single challenge at the Aichi Nagoya Biodiversity Summit.




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CBD News: Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary,on the occasion of the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Second Committee, New York, 1 November 2010.




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CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Oceans Day at Cancun, Oceans: essential to life, essential to climate, at the Sixteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Co




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CBD Notification: Report of the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Sustainable development: report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its eleventh special session.




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CBD Notification: Report of the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Sustainable development: Convention on Biological Diversity.




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the General Debate of 124th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 15-20 April 2011, Panama City, Panama




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CBD Communiqué: East African Legislative Assembly prepares resolution on Nagoya Protocol




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CBD Communiqué: Assessment of funding needs for the implementation of the Convention gets under way




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CBD Press Release: Scientific body of global biodiversity treaty discusses biodiversity indicators at Montreal meeting




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CBD News: Statement by the CBD Executive Secretary on the occasion of the Third Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socio-economic As




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CBD News: Statement by Braulio F. De Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the 65th Session of the World Health Assembly, 21-26 May 2012, Geneva




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CBD Press Release: Biodiversity Conservation can Improve Human Health in World's Growing Cities, says UN assessment




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CBD Press Release: The 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly has recognized the importance of recent decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), including those dealing with implemen




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CBD News: Increasing urbanization over the next decades presents not only unprecedented challenges for humanity, but also opportunities to curb climate change, reduce water scarcity and improve food security, according to the world's first global asse




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CBD News: Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias addresses the eighth session of the Open Working Group on SDGs in New York.




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CBD News: The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly decision to proclaim 3 March as World Wildlife Day, as a means of celebrating the importance of the world's flora and fauna,




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CBD News: As we celebrate the theme of this year's International Day of Forests, "Forests for Sustainable Development", I encourage countries to assess the status of their natural forest capital and the socio-economic contributions that fore




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CBD News: In preparation of a major international biodiversity conference in October 2014, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are currently submitting their fifth national reports that will enable a global assessment of progress made




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CBD News: Opening Remarks of the Executive Secretary Mr. Dias on the Occasion of the Third Meeting of the High-Level Panel of the Second Phase of the High-Level Panel on the Global Assessment of Resources for Implementing the Strategic Plan for Biodiversi




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Fifth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, Cancun, Mexico, Thursday 29 May 2014




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CBD News: Statement by the CBD Executive Secretary on the occasion of the 20th Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly, 14 to 25 July 2014, Kingston, Jamaica




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CBD News: Biological diversity and ecosystems featured prominently in the proposal of a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly




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CBD News: The guidance addresses a major pathway for introduction and spread of invasive alien species, as a significant percentage of global invasive introductions result from pets, aquarium and terrarium species that escape from confined conditions and




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CBD News: Seminar-Workshop on Harmonizing Methods in Risk Assessment and Management of Forest Invasive Alien Plant Species in South East Asia, 2-5 December 2014, Bogor, Indonesia




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CBD News: The fourth addition of Global Biodiversity Outlook is now available in Japanese, courtesy of the Nature Conservation Bureau of Japan's Ministry of the Environment. This brings to eight the number of languages in which the mid-term assessment




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CBD News: This year, International Women's Day highlights the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that twenty years' after its adoption remains an essential roadmap for the achievement of gender equality and women's rights.




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CBD News: A new report from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity discusses the potential for synthetic biology to have both positive and negative impacts on biodiversity and looks at the role and adequacy of existing risk assessment a




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CBD News: The pilot programme is targeting young scholars who wish to gain experience by participating in the development of the regional and sub-regional assessments (Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe and Central Asia) or the thematic assessment




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CBD News: Oceans are essential for supporting life on Earth and for human well-being. The oceans cover more than 70 per cent of our planet, and over 40 per cent of the world's population (almost 3 billion people) lives within 100 kilometres of the coa




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CBD News: More than two decades have passed since the nations of the world assembled in Rio de Janeiro and agreed to adopt a sustainable development agenda, promising to chart a development path that is equitable, environmentally just and economically rew




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CBD News: The wetlands of today are essential for human health and prosperity, and the benefits they provide have enormous economic and social value. As confirmed by the 2013 report, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Water and Wetlands, which




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CBD News: The theme of this conference, "biodiversity for sustainable development", could not come at a better time. Finally, the world is waking up to the essential role of biodiversity and healthy ecosystems for all life on earth, including hu




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CBD News: It is a pleasure to join you here in Kuala Lumpur for the fourth session of the IPBES Plenary. We come together for a very exciting moment in the history of IPBES, when the Plenary will be presented with the first two assessments for its accepta




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CBD News: Forests are crucial to the sustainable management of water ecosystems and resources, and water is essential for the sustainability of forest ecosystems. Let us work together and redouble our efforts to ensure that our forests remain healthy now




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CBD News: Biological diversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provisioning of ecosystem services essential for human well-being.




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CBD News: With its focus on mainstreaming biodiversity and issues being discussed at SBSTTA-20 and SBI-1, the May 2016 edition of [square brackets], the CBD newsletter for Civil Society, is now available online.




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CBD News: I am honoured to address the second committee of the UN General Assembly under your chairmanship.




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CBD News: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has published a detailed assessment of the implications of using climate geoengineering to limit global warming.




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CBD News: We, legislators gathered together on the occasion of the CBD COP13 Legislators Forum at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, Cancun, Mexico, 2016, on 7 December 2016, have discussed practical strategies and success stories in promoting th




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CBD News: Wildlife is an important part of our lives. For many, it provides essential food and medicine. Ecosystem processes are driven by the combined activities of many species, and each organism has a role to play in providing us with economic, medicin