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Workshop on Multilateral Environmental Agreements Linkages and synergies between the biodiversity-related conventions Tirana, Albania 22-24 June 2010. Ivonne Higuero Ecosystem Management Focal Point for Europe United Nations Environment Programme. Biodiversity-related Global Agreements.
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Workshop on Multilateral Environmental AgreementsLinkages and synergies between the biodiversity-related conventionsTirana, Albania22-24 June 2010 Ivonne Higuero Ecosystem Management Focal Point for Europe United Nations Environment Programme
Biodiversity-related Global Agreements • Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora • Convention on Migratory Species • Convention on Biological Diversity • Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar) • The World Heritage Convention • International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Regional Conventions and Processes • Carpathian Convention • Tehran Convention (Caspian Sea) • Black Sea Convention • Barcelona Convention (Mediterranean) and other regional seas conventions • Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes • Pan European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy • ForestEurope (previous Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests in Europe)
Liaison Group of Biodiversity-related Conventions Decision CBD VII/26: • “Requests in this context, the Executive Secretary, to invite the secretariats of the other four biodiversity conventions (CITES, Ramsar, CMS and World Heritage Convention) to form a liaison group to enhance coherence and cooperation in their implementation, and to report on progress made to the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties • Requests the Executive Secretary, drawing on the experience gained in the exercise mentioned above, and in close collaboration with relevant conventions, organizations and bodies, to examine options for a flexible framework between all relevant actors, such as a global partnership on biodiversity, in order to enhance implementation through improved cooperation, and to report to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting on possible ways forward...”
Possible areas for synergies amongst global biodiversity conventions • Meetings of the Conventions (Joint Calendar) • Knowledge Management • Harmonization of National Reporting • Financing • Implementation • …
Synergies with Regional biodiversity related Conventions and Processes • Implementation! Implementation! • Harmonization of National Reporting • Financing
Synergies at the National Level • Cooperation between focal points at the national level located in the same ministry • Cooperation between focal points at the national level located in different ministries