Biodiversity where it belongs at top of UN agenda
UN’s first ever high level event on biodiversity: September 22, New York, US
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Photo: Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory & The Dolphin Institute
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Background
To mark the International Year of Biodiversity (), the United Nations General Assembly is holding a high-level event on biodiversity on 22 September 2010, the eve of the opening of the general debate of its sixty-fifth session. This will be a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the global biodiversity crisis and the urgent need for stronger action to implement the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥, as the only international conservation organization with official UN observer status, will be taking a leading role in the events as they unfold.
Press Material and Events
• Press Statement on Mainstreaming Gender in the Biodiversity Debate, Mon 20 September
• Press Briefing and Press Statement on Cash Now to Save Life Tomorrow – 11h00-11h30 Tue 21 September, Press Briefing Room in Library Building at UN New York.
• Interview opportunity Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥/CBD - Gender and Biodiversity - 13h00-15h00, Tue 21 September in the Delegates Dining Room.
• Interview Opportunity – Global Island Partnership – 07h45-08h45, Wed 22 September.
Spokespersons
• Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥,
• Jane Smart, Director of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥â€™s Biodiversity Conservation Group,
To book interviews:
Brian Thomson, Media Relations Manager, m +41 79 528 3486, e
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