Biodiversity EU: summary for Nagoya
The European Envirionment Agency has issued a news highlight that makes a useful focus for EU positions, reports and trends, summarising the position in the lead into Nagoya.
The European Envirionment Agency has issued a news highlight that makes a useful focus for EU positions, reports and trends, summarising the position in the lead into Nagoya.
Graham has pointed to the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign - 14 new grants looking at ecosystems with an interesting emphasis on micro elements - evolution, services and diversity.
Nagoya has kicked off - plenary and various other events are progressing. As expected, key interest in Access and Benefit Sharing, with informal working groups looking at present at compliance, checkpoints and other issues. For detailed reporting of the COP and side events, look at the IISD reporting services or the CBD website for COP10.