Elusive pact

CoP 11: No consensus on resource mobilisation

Jayanthi Natarajan hopeful of Parties agreeing on a final document 

7th GEF Assembly: Decision on direct funding to civil societies likely during the meeting

More funds would be needed to make this possible without alienating governments

Biodiversity meet: Parties disagree on resource mobilisation

Contact group to now fix individual financial targets for countries

Forests brushed aside

CoP-11 fails to finalise guidelines to safeguard forest biodiversity

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

‘Future 50’ food items identified in new report

It also emphasises that food diversity across the world is being lost

Still vexed

Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders

Benefit barred, access denied

CBD to hold COP-8 in WTO shadow

Nations to share genetic resources

Activists call the text of the agreement vague

Whose wealth?

Save our rice

Reluctant funding

Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost

UN report warns of effects of urban expansion on biodiversity

Urban areas set to triple by 2030; population to touch 4.9 billion

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

COP15 Montreal: Breakdown in talks on resource mobilisation; delegates walk out 

Does this impasse indicate a rift that could derail the Framework?   

Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss

Small carnivores don’t typically get as much public attention as larger species

Environmental Negotiations

A diverse bill

It is important to generate a national debate on the Biological Diversity Bill

Drumming it in

Should local communities pay for Western notions of 'global benefit'?

Overshadowed

CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity

India moves to restructure IPR issues

Kamal Nath dashes letters to 31 countries

Canada, UK given Dodo Awards by civil society

The awards are given to countries that contribute to biodiversity loss

Implementation of biosafety norms not satisfactory: Gbedemah

 Funds availability a major hindrance, says head of biosafety at CBD

COP-9 makes slow progress