The Biodiversity Challenge

The Price of Biodiversity

61 203. International Year of Biodiversity, 2010

1. Declares 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity

The country is megadiverse with a high number of species and high levels of endemism.

Madagascar is one of the hottest biodiversity hot spots.

Nilai keanekaragaman hayati adalah menjadikan ekosistem kita lebih tangguh, yang merupakan prasyarat terbentuknya masyarakat yang stabil perusakan yang sewenang wenang terhadap keanekaragaman hayati sama dengan menyulut api pada sekoci penolong.

Not all projects aimed at protecting biodiversity are a smart use of public resources.

Madagascar is one of the hottest biodiversity hot spots. Pete Lowry

The collapse in biodiversity, climate change, pandemics, financial crises these will be the currency that we will think about.

He covers species conservation, from bats to snow leopards, and energy issues.

The world s wealthiest countries endorsed the idea of an international study to examine the economic benefits of conserving the world s wildlife.

The primary causes behind declining global biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human activity.

Some people will balk at the idea of putting a price tag on biodiversity, viewing its protection as an obvious imperative.

3. Invites Member States to consider establishing national committees for the International Year of Biodiversity

One of the research objectives is to conserve the biodiversity in Upper Rio Negro, in Amazonas, Brazil.

That s why ocean advocates have been working behind the scenes for years to build biodiversity protections into the law of the sea.

In large part, this reflects unregulated or missing markets that fail to capture the values that nature provides to us every day point emphasized in the G 8 5 project on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, hosted by the UNEP.

Noting the efforts of the Government of France to organize a biodiversity related conference in Paris in 2005,

Recognizing the negative impact of environmental degradation, including climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity, on human settlements,

In 2000, the member governments agreed on the Millennium Development Goals. And in 2002, they agreed on the Monterrey Consensus, pledging concrete efforts to triple aid flows to the poorest in order to reach the international goal for foreign assistance of 0.7 of rich world GNP.

Three treaties emerged in 1992 out of the so called Rio Conference on the Environment on climate change, biodiversity conservation, and desertification.

53. Notes the scientific and technical work under the Convention on Biological Diversity relating to marine and coastal biodiversity

86. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine biodiversity research, and encourages participation in this initiative

109. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine biodiversity research, and encourages participation in the initiative

Recalling also its resolution 61 203 of 20 December 2006 on the International Year of Biodiversity, 2010,

122. Notes the contribution of the Census of Marine Life to marine biodiversity research, and encourages participation in the initiative

For example, measurements of GDP currently neglect the costs of natural resource replacement, pollution, and the destruction of biodiversity.

Their rainforests are a vast storehouse of biodiversity, and forests are major carbon sinks, reducing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

In 2002, the treaty s signatories went further, committing to a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.

Soon after the emergence of these first multicellular organisms, a remarkable amount of biological diversity appeared over approximately 10 million years, in an event called the Cambrian explosion.

Sebagian besar keanekaragaman hayati di laut khususnya karang, mamalia laut, burung laut, dan penyu juga kesulitan melawan tekanan manusia.

The Millennium Development Goals remain far off track in the poorest countries, with just nine years to go. Despite a global pledge to reduce significantly the loss of biological diversity by 2010, huge areas of rainforest and oceans continue to be destroyed.

Despite a global pledge to reduce significantly the loss of biological diversity by 2010, huge areas of rainforest and oceans continue to be destroyed.

Just as important is to support courageous groups and individuals putting pressure on world leaders to protect our remaining forests amid the twin climate and biodiversity crises.

12. Invites parties to the Convention, other Governments, relevant international organizations and other relevant stakeholders to make preparations to celebrate in 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity

Conscious of the need for effective education to raise public awareness for achieving the threefold objective of the Convention and the 2010 biodiversity target,

Meanwhile, at the national level, it is essential that biodiversity conservation is mainstreamed, becoming an integral part of government policy and sustainable management practices worldwide.

Khususnya di lingkungan tropis, produk ini mengakibatkan kerusakan pada topsoil dan hilangnya keanekaragaman hayati (kelebihannya pun akan dibuang ke laut, sehingga merusak ekosistem laut).

6. Invites relevant international organizations as well as relevant global and regional environmental conventions to communicate to the focal point for the International Year of Biodiversity efforts made towards the successful implementation of the objective of the Year

And livestock production uses 30 of the earth s land surface that once was home to wildlife, thereby playing a critical role in biodiversity loss and species extinction.

14. Stresses the importance of reducing duplicative reporting requirements of the biodiversity related conventions while respecting their independent legal status and their independent mandates

The two founding universities are the University of Papua New Guinea based in the National Capital District, and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology based outside of Lae, in Morobe Province.

Habitat destruction, biodiversity loss, overfishing, pollution, climate change and ocean acidification are pushing the ocean system to the point of collapse, the Global Ocean Commission co chairs warned.

Last year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution to expand UNCLOS to protect marine biodiversity and genetic resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction.