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CBD News: We gather here to reflect on the impact of the Holy Father's Encyclical - on Care for our Common Home.

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Published On :: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: The 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity, held from 27-29 October in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, produced a regional Declaration on Biocultural Diversity and an annex of practical actions that can be taken at different level

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Published On :: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Governments, non-governmental organizations and local communities have taken up the Honolulu Challenge and agreed to take bold actions to counter invasive alien species that harm biodiversity.

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Published On :: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Ministers from around the world committed to working together to save biodiversity and take urgent action to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and backed this with a host of specific commitments.

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Published On :: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT


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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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Published On :: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Agreements reached on actions to integrate biodiversity in forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism sectors and to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

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Published On :: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT


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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

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Published On :: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: With the knowledge that comes from learning, citizens are able to make informed choices and act effectively.

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Published On :: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: In today's global celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity, under the theme of 'Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism', people are examining the positive but also potentially negative impacts that tourism can ha

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Published On :: Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: People are on the move. Political instability, extreme weather events and other factors have forced more people to flee their homes than at any time since the Second World War.

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Published On :: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: First 23 validated checklists from the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species highlighted in paper, signaling major step in delivering information to support national action against biological invasions.

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Published On :: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: For this year's International Women's Day, I join my voice to the call to action to empower women in all settings, rural and urban, and to draw inspiration from the activists working to achieve women's rights and gender equality.

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Published On :: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: On Saturday 24 March 8:30 p.m. local time, skylines around the world will go dark as millions celebrate WWF's Earth Hour to spark global awareness and action on nature and the environment.

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Published On :: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary, said: "These assessments are sobering. They show that the pressures on biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services from human activities, including climate change, are increasing.

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Published On :: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: On 12 April, Sir David Attenborough joins the head of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity and a panel from government, business and civil society to discuss how to mobilise global action to tackle what is said to be the greatest thre

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Published On :: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Rachel Carson, the late American biologist and conservationist, suggested "there is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds... something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn

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Published On :: Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: New surveys of more than 5,000 consumers in five countries indicate that the majority (79 per cent) feel that "companies have a moral obligation" to have a positive impact on people and biodiversity in their sourcing of natural ingredi

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Published On :: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: The global community will lay the groundwork for action over the next few decades to protect biodiversity and nature at the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference, scheduled to take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 17 to 29 November 2018.

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Published On :: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.

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Published On :: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: The inaugural Nature Champions Summit closed Thursday with a call to put nature at the centre of the global discourse together with climate action and sustainable development.

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Published On :: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Young people from around the world are encouraged to submit videos for the 2019 Global Youth Video Competition showcasing positive solutions on three themes: Nature-based Solutions for Food and Human Health; Cities and Local Action to Combat Cli

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Published On :: Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Government officials, experts and activists from around the world gather in Nairobi this week to open talks on a global agreement to safeguard life on Earth, in all its forms. The 27-30 August meeting marks the official start of negotiations tow

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Published On :: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: This year, World Food Day calls for action across sectors to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible to everyone. It is a reminder that without healthy nature and biodiversity, we cannot have quality nutrition, and without q

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Published On :: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2019: Acting Together to Achieving the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity will ensure that the children of today and tomorrow, along with their families and communities, ca

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Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/JS/TMC/VA/88505 (2019-106): Survey on Progress in Implementation of the 2015-2020 Gender Plan of Action

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Published On :: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: A new guide now available, Addressing Gender Issues and Actions in Biodiversity Objectives, provides biodiversity professionals concrete ideas and actions for progress in their work towards achieving gender and biodiversity objectives, goals and

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Published On :: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Thematic Workshop on Area-Based Conservation Measures, La Prairie, Canada, 1-3 December 2019

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Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Invasive Alien Species, Montreal, 2-4 December 2019

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Notification SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88522 (2019-110): Review of post-2020 Implementation Plan and Capacity-building Action Plan (Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

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Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Soil Day 2019

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Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Acting Executive Secretary, welcomes announcement that biodiversity will be theme of the next year's World Environment Day: "We are delighted to see that biodiversity will be the focus of World Environment Da

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Published On :: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NVW/86292 (2019-117): Follow-up invitation to participate in and/or contribute to the piloting and further development of a methodology for the voluntary peer review of national biodiversity strategies and action plans

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Published On :: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fifty-seventh meeting of the Council of the Global Environment Facility, Wednesday, 18 December 2019, Washington D.C., United States

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Published On :: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Wetlands Day

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Published On :: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, for the opening of the Second Meeting of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Monday, 24 February 2020, Rome

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Published On :: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Subregional Exchange for the Caribbean on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems, 9-13 March 2020

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Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Earth Day

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Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT


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TripActions moves into travel payments with Liquid launch

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Published On :: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:01:00 GMT

The fast-growing travel tech startup is moving into payments after securing $500 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank, Goldman Sachs and Comerica Bank


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FCA delays two-factor online shopping authentication by 6 months

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Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 07:50:00 GMT

The new rule, which will force payments platforms and online retailers to strongly authenticate purchases of £28 or more has been delayed by another six months amidst the COVID-19 pandemic


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Sharp Adams and Hardy-Adams inequalities of any fractional order on hyperbolic spaces of all dimensions

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Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:21 EDT

Jungang Li, Guozhen Lu and Qiaohua Yang
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3483-3513.
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Legal tips for startups: advice on IP, contracts, funding and more

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Published On :: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:22:00 GMT


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Properties and distributions of values of fractal functions related to ????₂-representations of real numbers

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:58 EST

M. V. Pratsiovytyi and S. P. Ratushniak
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 211-228.
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Calculation of the convexity adjustment to the forward rate in the Vasicek model for the forward in-arrears contracts on LIBOR rate

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:58 EST

N. O. Malykh and I. S. Postevoy
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 189-198.
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Asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator in the fractional Vašíček model

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:58 EST

S. S. Lohvinenko and K. V. Ralchenko
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 149-168.
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Ehrenfest–Brillouin-type correlated continuous time random walk and fractional Jacobi diffusion

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:58 EST

N. N. Leonenko, I. Papić, A. Sikorskii and N. Šuvak
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 137-147.
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