Biodiversity policy EU: European Red List
EU and IUCN collaboration on the European Red List updated at September 2011. Grim reading on some ecosystems such as freshwater.
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Biodiversity policy: IPBES first plenary
In progress in the week beginning 3 October, the first plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Papers, documents and updates on the website, but most of the discussion is about governance, organisation and so forth. IUCN position paper on IPBES also worth reading.
Biodiversity science: PLoS biodiversity hub - forward thinking
The PLoS Biodversity hub has been around for almost a year now, bringing together open access publications. A new paper from Mindell et al. on PLoS is essential reading on the potential for integration of many biodiversity resources with open access research. Not least, a good list of intiatives, which reads:..../ more
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and ecological and evolutionary datasetsv http://datadryad.org/
Biodiversity policy: IUCN review of biodiversity in EU overseas territories
IUCN has published a review of biodiversity in the overseas territories ("entities") of EU countries - recommendations for an integrated EU policy.
- Future directions for biodiversity action in Europe overseas : outcomes of the Review of the Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, December 2010
Biodiversity policy: Biodiversity economics
Useful Biodiversity Economics website from IUCN/WWF
Biodiversity policy: IUCN publications - species and science
IUCN species magazine mentions Paul Williams as chair of the specialist bumblebee group. Also out is the IUCN Science Bulletin with a review of relevant publications.
Biodiversity and sustainable development: 2012 conference in London
Announcement of a conference in March 2012 in London: Planet under Pressure. Organised by IGBP and others - focus on science and sustainable development to tie in to the Rio +20 Summit later in 2012.
Biodiversity policy international: Marine protected areas after Nagoya.
IUCN and others have published a report on Global ocean protection : present status and future possibilities - good overview of Marine protected areas, with focus on what will be needed to deliver the target of 10% of the marine environment under the Nagoya commitments.