Joint Efforts of UN Convention on Biological Diversity and The Nature Conservancy to Help Governments Implement Global Conservation Treaty, Increase Protected Areas The Nature Conservancy has lined up abaft the CBD and its government parties because that is a key abode area attention gets done This accord demonstrates how noncombatant association organizations like the Conservancy can plan in bike with governments to advice countries accomplish cogent advance in attention and acceptable development.
Barcelona, Spain (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 8, 2008 -- The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and The Nature Conservancy appear they accept entered into a groundbreaking affiliation acceding to abutment the 191 United Nations CBD signatories in acceptable the accomplishing of the objectives of the Convention.
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This new acceding formalizes accord amid the Conservancy and the Secretariat of the UNCBD to abutment governments in charge of abetment in accomplishing their agreed commitments beneath the UN Convention, which is administrated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This different accurately bounden apparatus was opened for signature at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development captivated in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The Convention aims a allotment of added things to advance all-around strategies for attention and aegis of biological diversity by implementing civic systems of adequate areas, attention island, freshwater and backwoods biodiversity, preventing invasive species, and acclamation the impacts of altitude change on humans and nature.
In 2004, The Nature Conservancy was one of seven all-embracing non-governmental organizations that fabricated a collective charge to acknowledging governments to apparatus the anew adopted Program of Work on Protected Areas. Since then, in over 25 countries, the Conservancy has been an active force in allowance governments authorize civic partnerships a allotment of government agencies and noncombatant association organizations to apparatus the Programme of Work in abutment of stronger and added able adequate areas.
"The Nature Conservancy has lined up abaft the CBD and its government parties because that is a key abode area attention gets done," said Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy. "This accord demonstrates how noncombatant association organizations like the Conservancy can plan in bike with governments to advice countries accomplish cogent advance in attention and acceptable development."
"The Bonn Biodiversity Summit captivated in May opened a new era of added assurance of all stakeholders for affair the all-around biodiversity challenges adverse mankind. Achieving the 2010 biodiversity ambition which aims to abate essentially the accepted amount of accident of biodiversity is accessible but requires the breath assurance of all stakeholders. We in the Secretariat are beholden for the abutment that The Nature Conservancy is offering, as a able alignment with all-around reach. We achievement that added organizations will chase their lead," said Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the CBD.
Currently, the Conservancy is acknowledging accomplishing of assorted CBD programs above 5 continents and in added than 30 countries, and has formed with governments and added organizations beneath the accoutrement of the CBD to actualize added than 22 actor hectares of new adequate areas.
Through this new agreement, the CBD and The Nature Conservancy will:
- Continue to strengthen accomplishing of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas, in accord with the Programme of Work on Protected Areas Friends Consortium. Continue to activate charge and accomplishing of the Programme of Work on Island Biodiversity, in affiliation with the Global Island Partnership. Broaden accord to activate government action on forests, abyssal and bank biological diversity, invasive adverse species, civil waters, acceptable use, biodiversity and altitude change, and added accordant programmes in bunch with added absorbed actors. Analyze accepted factors of success for catalyzing and implementing commitments beneath the Convention, decidedly in the across of national, bounded and all-embracing collaboration. Strengthen the science and compassionate of linkages a allotment of biodiversity attention and altitude change acclimation and mitigation.
A cogent new across of plan through this acceding will be to accept and acquaint to governments the cogent linkages a allotment of biodiversity attention and solutions to altitude change. For over a decade, The Nature Conservancy has been a baton in allowance advance actual projects, such as Noel Kempff Mercardo National Park in Bolivia and Kimbe Bay Marine Protected Area Network in Papua New Guinea, to authenticate attention solutions to the challenges of altitude change. The science, accoutrement and acquirements from those and added projects will be actinic and broadcast to governments to advice them accouterment the challenges airish by altitude change.
The Conservancy has carefully accumbent its own attention goals with those of the CBD. Doing so has enabled the Conservancy to plan hand-in-hand with governments on aggregate attention outcomes. For example, The Nature Conservancy is alive appear a "2015 goal" to bigger conserve at atomic 10% of all above abode types on Earth.
The Convention on Biological Diversity is one of the a lot of broadly subscribed all-embracing ecology treaties in the world. Opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1992, it currently has 192 Parties -- 191 States and the European Community -- who accept committed themselves to its three capital goals: the attention of biodiversity, acceptable use of its apparatus and the candid administration of the allowances arising out of the appliance of abiogenetic resources. The Secretariat of the Convention is amid in Montreal. www.cbd.int
The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage (7 actor hectares or 70,000km2) in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage (47 actor hectares or 470,000km2) in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.
Contact
CBD: Marie Khan
marie.khan @ cbd.int +1 514 287 8701
TNC: Misty Herrin
mherrin @ tnc.org, +32 487 319 682
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