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 | 2010 BIP featured highly at high-level 6th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity - 2010年2月12日Since 1993, the Trondheim Conferences have provided a platform for policy makers, managers and scientists to come together to consider the key issues being discussed under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Conferences, a collaboration between the Secretariat of the CBD, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Norwegian government, are held every 3-4 years in Trondheim, Norway. The sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity (1 – 5 February 2010) brought together over 300 participants from 100 countries. The 2010 BIP was repeatedly referred to throughout the conference.
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 | World Wetlands Day 2010 - 2010年2月2日 Today is World Wetlands Day (WWD). This year’s theme, ‘Caring for wetlands – an answer to climate change’, is an issue of particular relevance in 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. Wetlands are particularly vulnerable to threats such as climate change. The third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) to be released by the CBD Secretariat in May 2010, will also confirm that they are amongst the most threatened ecosystems. WWD is of particular relevance to the 2010 BIP. read more ... |
 | Red List Index Calculator available to download! - 2010年1月26日The Red List Index (RLI) forms part of the CBD indicator suite developed to monitor biodiversity trends and assess progress towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target. The RLI, initially designed as a global indicator, utilizes Red List Assessments to show changes in the overall extinction risk of sets of species. The 2010 BIP and BirdLife International have worked together to produce the 'Red List Index Calculator'. This simple tool enables Red List data to be used to automatically generate RLIs. The calculator is particularly useful for countries or regions looking to produce their own own indices of extinction risk. read more ... |
 | Impact of nature’s invading aliens measured for the first time! - 2010年1月22日A publication on the 2010 BIP indicator, Trends on Invasive Alien Species has for the first time highlighted the status and impact of invasive alien species. The publication “Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses”, looked at 57 countries and found that, on average, there are 50 non-indigenous species per country which have a negative impact on biodiversity. read more ... |
 | 2010 International Year of Biodiversity Website - 2009年11月11日The new website for the International Year of Biodiversity (www.cbd.int/2010) was officially launched on the 10th November at an opening ceremony in Montreal. More than 500 participants were present at the ceremony, representing the 193 Parties to the Convention and partner organizations. The 2010 BIP is an official Partner of the IYB, and has been acknowledged for its support on the new IYB website. read more ... |
 | CBD COP 10 Logo and Slogan Launched! - 2009年10月15日Japan has marked the one year countdown to the start of the tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10), which will be held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010. To mark this occasion the COP 10 logo and slogan was launched at the Ministry of the Environment in Tokyo. read more ... |
 | International Expert Workshop on Post-2010 Indicator Development – Report Now Available! - 2009年10月14日A workshop convened by the CBD Secretariat and UNEP-WCMC, has proven vital in initiating the process of making recommendations for the post-2010 indicators ahead of CBD COP 10. The report from the post-2010 indicators workshop held in July in Reading, UK is now available. read more ... |
 | World Habitat Day - 2009年10月5日The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day. Although designated to reflect on the state of our towns and cities. The theme of this year’s day, Planning our Urban Future, is especially relevant to the world’s biodiversity. Development and urban sprawl pose serious threats to biodiversity, with dramatic consequences for ecosystem services, such as water and food availability.
To mark the importance of this day a message has been published by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. read more ... |
 | 2010 BIP Side Event: UNCCD COP 9 - 2009年9月29日As part of its ongoing awareness raising efforts, the 2010 BIP is actively working to communicate links between the Partnership’s work and other multilateral environmental agreements.
Representatives of both partners and the secretariat of the 2010 BIP were invited to the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 9) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event provided opportunities to promote the 2010 BIP by highlighting a process that the Convention may wish to emulate, and to encourage the Secretariat and Parties of the Convention to work with the Partnership. read more ... |
 | Science Article: Greater Investment Needed in Biodiversity Indicators - 2009年9月18日More investment in biodiversity indicators is needed, if the world’s Governments are to understand how their actions and policies are impacting the planet’s species and ecosystems. This is conclusion of article published in Science today in which the CBD biodiversity indicator suite is reviewed. read more ... |
 | Countdown 2010 gets a new look!! - 2009年7月15日Countdown 2010 re-launched its new website on 14 July 2009. All sections have been completely re-structured to improve navigability and ensure maximum accessibility to information. The new website includes features such as ‘Featured Partners’, and sections dedicated to the upcoming International Year of Biodiversity and the new Biodiversity Target after 2010. read more ... |
 | European Environment Agency Report Launch: European Biodiversity Indicator Fact Sheets - 2009年7月7日The European Environment Agency has launched a new technical report, containing individual assessments for each of the 26 SEBI 2010 biiodiversity indicators. The detailed assessments in this new report underpin the analysis, synthesis and policy implications contained in EEA Report 04/2009, entitled ‘Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target’. |
| Results of the 2010 BIP User Needs Survey - 2009年7月1日 The results of the 2009 2010 BIP User Needs Survey are now available to view online. The User Needs Survey generated global interest, with 398 respondents from 87 countries taking part. The Survey provided an opportunity for the Partnership to gain public opinion on both the usability of the 2010 BIP as well as suggested improvements. Review of the responses has lead to the generation of a number of action points for the 2010 BIP which will help to improve the delivery of the biodiversity indicators over the next year in the run up to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10). read more ... |
 | Launch of National Red List website - 2009年6月24日The Zoological Society of London launched its new ‘National Red Lists’ website (www.nationalredlist.org) on the 19th June 2009. Global assessments of the conservation status of species are regularly undertaken and incorporated into the IUCN Red List Index of Threatened Species. However, Nations often produce their own Red Lists using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria to provide information more relevant to national conservation priorities and decision making. Until now, these national and regional Red Lists existed as separate entities. The new National Red List website brings these assessments together in a centralised location, and users can search the database to assess assessments by nation, region, species or threat criteria. read more ... |
 | ZSL and WCS Symposium: Biodiversity monitoring and conservation - 2009年6月24日On the 18-19th June 2009, two partners of the 2010 BIP, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Wildlife Conservation Society came together to host a Symposium entitled ‘Biodiversity monitoring and conservation: Bridging the gaps between global commitment and local action’ at ZSL offices, Regent’s Park, London. The symposium aimed to provide a synopsis of the best current thinking on how to measure biodiversity loss and how to ensure monitoring has real impacts on conservation. There was a focus on indicators used to measure biodiversity trends and discussion regularly turned to the current and post-2010 CBD indicator suite. read more ... |
 | 2010 BIP Side Event: 3rd Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for F - 2009年6月12日The 2010 BIP secretariat has an ongoing programme of awareness raising and establishing links between biodiversity initiatives at global, regional and national levels. This work includes sharing the Partnership’s activities with those involved with other multilateral environmental agreements such as the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. We were therefore delighted to accept an invitation from the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) to host a side event at its 3rd Session of the Governing Body in Tunis, Tunisia. read more ... |
| 2010 BIP Website Re-launch: 22nd May 2009 - 2009年5月21日The 2010 BIP has officially re-launched its new website on the 22nd May 2009, the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). This unique portal will provide comprehensive information on biodiversity trends and is intended to be the primary source of information for global biodiversity indicators. read more ... |
 | 2010 BIP Caribbean Biodiversity Indicators Capacity Development Workshop - 2008年12月19日The 2010 BIP Caribbean Biodiversity Indicators Capacity Development Workshop took place from the 8-9 December at the Cascadia Hotel, Trinidad. The objective of the workshop was to raise awareness and develop capacity for the production and use of biodiversity indicators for decision-making and reporting by countries in the Caribbean region, with a particular focus on the 4th National Reports to the CBD due in March 2009. The workshop was well attended, with participants including government representatives from 15 countries in the Caribbean region. read more ... |
 | The 2010 BIP at IUCN WCC 2008 - 2008年10月17日The IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC), the world’s largest conservation event, took place from 5-14 October at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB) in Barcelona, Spain. As the primary global initiative promoting and developing biodiversity indicators, the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP) was well in attendance at the WCC with 35 Partners represented. Twelve of whom had exhibition booths. read more ... |
 | New Biodiversity Target and Indicator for MDGs - 2008年9月25日On 25 September 2008 world leaders are meeting at UN Headquarters in New York to identify new actions to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which now include a new biodiversity target. The High-level Event, convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, aims to ensure that all countries can achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The seventh Millennium Development Goal, to ensure environmental sustainability, now includes the target, “reduce biodiversity loss, achieving by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss”, which is compatible with the ‘2010 Target’ of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Environmental sustainability will be one of three themes discussed at the High-level Event. read more ... |
 | Earth Overshoot Day - 2008年9月23日Tuesday 23 September was Earth Overshoot Day: the day humanity used all the resources nature will generate this year according to the Global Footprint Network (GFN). Beyond Earth Overshoot day, we move into the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, utilizing resources at a faster rate than the planet can regenerate in a calendar year. Humanity’s first Earth Overshoot Day was 31 December, 1986. This day has gradually moved forward over the years, and now our rate of overshoot stands at 40 percent more than the planet can renewably supply. Globally, we now demand the biological capacity of 1.4 planets, according to the GFN. read more ... |
 | Report Launch: State of the World’s Birds - 2008年9月22日BirdLife International has launched a new publication and website, the State of the World’s Birds, today at their World Conference in Buenos Aires. The ‘State of the World’s Birds is published every four years by BirdLife International, and the 2008 theme is ‘Indicators of our changing world’. The report highlights the worldwide decline of common birds, providing evidence of a rapid deterioration in the global environment that is affecting all life on earth. read more ... |
| IUCN World Conservation Congress - 2010 BIP Participation - 2008年9月1日The IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest conservation event, will take place from 5-14 October, at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB) in Barcelona, Spain. More than 8,000 of the world’s leading decision makers will attend the event to decide on important conservation issues. As the primary global initiative promoting and developing biodiversity indicators, the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010 BIP) will play a prominent role at the WCC, hosting and making appearances at a variety of different events. read more ... |
 | 2nd Technical Meeting of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership - 2008年7月2日The second technical meeting of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) was held at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montréal, Canada from the 25-26 June 2008. This meeting was crucial for determining the progress of the Partnership, as well as clarifying the expectations for the Partnership over the next two years in the run up to the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10). read more ... |
 | 2010 BIP - UNEP indicators Expert on 20 June 2008 - 2008年6月16日Dr Matt Walpole, Head of Ecosystem Assessment Programme at UNEP-WCMC and member of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Secretariat, will be responding to questions under the title: 'Biodiversity Indicators: Tracking Biodiversity Change read more ... |
 | WWF, ZSL and GFN Report Launch: '2010 and Beyond: Rising to the Biodiversity Challenge' - 2008年5月16日WWF, in partnership with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), have just launched their latest report '2010 and Beyond: Rising to the Biodiversity Challenge', in time for the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) in Bonn, Germany. read more ... |
| COP 9 Side Event on the 2010 Biodiversity Indicator Partnership - 2008年5月3日The 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) Secretariat held a side event at the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on Friday, 23 May 2008. Chaired by SBSTTA’s Spencer Thomas of Grenada, with presentations from Linda Collette of FAO, Sarah Simons of Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) and Gordon Sheppherd of WWF, it was well attended and provoked a lively discussion. read more ... |
| 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Launched - 2007年7月12日The official launch of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (2010BIP) took place on Thursday 12th July at UNESCO in Paris, during the second meeting of the Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. read more ... |
| Global Biodiversity Indicators Workshop, Zoological Society of London - 2006年5月1日Workshops were held to discuss the methodology and development of two indicators – the Sampled Red List and Living Index- both identified by the CBD to help monitor progress towards the 2010 target. read more ... |
| Royal Society Workshop, London - 2004年7月23日Sixty experts from 15 countries met over two days to discuss the potential indicators that could used to measure progress towards the 2010 ‘biodiversity’ target. read more ... |
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