The Nagoya Protocol, which will create incentives to conserve biodiversity, has received the required 50th instrument of ratification on July 14. India, having hosted CoP-11 to the Convention on Biodiversity
The last planeload carrying participants from the COP 11 meeting of the international Convention on Biodiversity has flown out of Hyderabad, much to the relief of its citizens who were all inconvenienced
India played a leadership role in getting developed countries to double funding for the conservation of biodiversity. Summing up the outcome of the 11th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the Convention on Biodiversity held in Hyderabad recently, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Monday that India had succeeded in getting developed countries to pledge $8 billion by 2020 to developing nations to help conserve biodiversity.
Developed countries agreed to double funding to support efforts in developing states towards meeting the internationally-agreed biodiversity targets, and the main goals of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (SPB) 2011-2020. Developing countries also have agreed to increase funding in support of actions to halt the rate of loss of biodiversity at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which ended here on Saturday, CBD secretariat stated in a press release.
Logjam over funding pushes talks beyond closing time at biodiversity summit The Convention on Biological Diversity summit ran into overtime on Friday night, as nations struggled to find a way out of the logjam on funding talks, negotiating far beyond their scheduled closing time. While countries have set ambitious goals — called the Aichi Targets — to protect the world's plants, animals and natural habitats by 2020, they could not agree on how to raise the money needed to reach these goals until this article went to press.
New Delhi Over 1.7 lakh farmers from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, who grow the lucrative Flue Cure Virginia (FCV), have asked for representation in the upcoming WHO framework convention on tobacco control (FCTC) in South Korea during November 12-17. FCV is the finest quality of tobacco used in cigarettes. Only health ministry officials have been invited to the FCTC meeting that seeks to reduce tobacco crop size across the globe. India, being signatory to the WHO FCTC, has committed to reduce the crop size so that a large chunk of agricultural land used for tobacco production could be used for grain production.
Itanagar: At a time when there is an overarching concern about the paradigms of development and protection of natural resources in Arunachal Pradesh, it was a very proud moment when the State and its traditional communities were applauded for their sustainable use and management of resources. The applause came at the COP11 (XIth conference of parties convention on biological diversity) in Hyderabad yesterday. Various responses from the international audience at the side event on ‘Different Indigenous And New Approaches In Natural Resource Management In The Bio-Culturally Diverse State Of Arunachal Pradesh’ organized at the Conference showered praise on the traditional practices and natural resource management systems being followed by the tribal people and expressed how it is these communities who are at the forefront of protecting the world’s biodiversity.
Indian Minister for Forest and Environment and new president of Conference of Parties on Convention of Biodiversity Jayanthi Natarajan has said that the high level segment discussions recognized that biological
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will soon create a national data base for tigers, the flagship species of India, and each one of the big cats will have a unique identification number and
Countries are unwilling to embrace more conservation measures until they are sure that money will be available Negotiators from over 190 countries sat late into the night on Thursday, trying to end the stalemate in funding talks as the Convention on Biological Diversity draws to a close. It is hoped that a combination of rising pressure from poor countries, and lowered expectations from India and the U.N. may help to wring some monetary support from richer countries to help protect the world’s vanishing plants, animals and natural habitats.
