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COP10 end near; unified political will for biodiversity deal eludes
Cross-posted from The Japan Times By ERIC JOHNSTON Staff writer NAGOYA — With long-standing differences still dividing COP10 and the tone of negotiations hardening as the conference entered its final...
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Nagoya biodiversity summit is showing depressing parallels with Copenhagen
Cross-posted from The Guardian Nagoya is another ill-tempered bout between the global haves and wanna-haves in which the fiercest blows are landing on the natural world One week down, one left to go....
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BIODIVERSITY IN SUSPENSE
Note: Simone is a participant in Global Justice Ecology Project’s New Voices on Climate Change Program. by Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coaliton http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/ Halfway through...
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DOUBLE CRISES OF THE ABS NEGOTIATIONS – ON CONTENT AND PROCESS
Nagoya, COP10, 28 Oct 2010, supported by: Oct 28 – The ABS negotiations were always prided as an open, inclusive and transparent process. But things have taken a dramatic turn. In the last 24 hours we...
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Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan: Risky Climate...
In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments....
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Victory for Developing Countries Over Northern Business Interests at...
Global Justice Ecology Project is the North American Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition. GJEP’s Executive Director, Anne Petermann, was in Nagoya for the negotiations. -The GJEP Team...
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Runaway Global Economy Decimating Nature
Cross-posted from IPS News By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 28, 2010 (IPS) – One-fifth of all birds, fish and animals are threatened with extinction – as many as six million unique and irreplaceable...
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What came out of the Convention on Biodiversity meeting in Nagoya on REDD?
Cross-posted from REDD Monitor By Chris Lang, 3rd November 2010 After two weeks of meetings in Nagoya, Japan, “a new era of living in harmony was born and new global alliance to protect life on...
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La Via Campesina: CBD Did Not Stop Commercialization of Biodiversity
Read LVC’s position paper on CBD-Nagoya (Jakarta, 12 November, 2010) La Via Campesina delegates attending the conference of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Nagoya from 19 to 29 October 2010...
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Canada Signs Onto UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples?
Or maybe not? Ben Powless at Indigenous Environmental Network – Canada analyzes Canada’s supposed endorsement of the UN DRIPS: Canada has announced that it will ‘support’ the UN Declaration. First off,...
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