The world鈥檚 forests are essential to life in all its diversity and to attaining humanity鈥檚 biggest goals such as reducing poverty, curbing climate change and achieving sustainable development. Throughout 2011 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 will work towards making sure that forests deliver their maximum potential for鈥
Climate change and biodiversity in the European Union overseas entities
In just six years, Countdown 2010 has become one of the largest networks for biodiversity conservation worldwide. Nearly 1,100 organisations from all over the world have joined the network and committed to taking direct action to conserve the natural heritage of their country, region or鈥
Governments meeting at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10) have approved a step change for biodiversity: a new Strategic Plan for the next ten years to reduce the current pressures on the planet鈥檚 biodiversity and take urgent action to save鈥
The Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 today announced they had established the Save Our Species (SOS) initiative with more than $US10 million in financing commitments and called on businesses to help build the biggest global species conservation fund by 2015.
The most comprehensive assessment of the world鈥檚 vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10th Conference of the Parties to鈥
As Countdown 2010 initiative closes, local coordinated actions show way to solving the global biodiversity crisis.
Over the last four years, the Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia has emerged as an important annual gathering of global thinkers from the spheres of politics, industry, and academia from Europe, South Eastern Europe and beyond. Participation included politicians, businessmen, scientists and policy鈥
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Director General, Julia Marton-Lefevre, has accepted the role of ambassador for a major art installation called 鈥淕host Forest鈥, by British artist Angela Palmer.
Following 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播鈥檚 recommendations, the landscapes of France鈥檚 La Reunion Island, Russia鈥檚 Siberian Putorana Plateau and the Phoenix Islands Protected Areas of Kiribati have been added to the List of Natural World Heritage sites by UNESCO. The Committee also decided to add Danxia (China) to the鈥