Organized by the Government of Gabon in partnership with the CBD Secretariat and IUCN, with support from the African Union Commission, African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), UNEP and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), this conference will discuss and formulate a common African position ahead of the UN High-level Conference on Biodiversity to be held on 22 September 2010, in New York, and the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD, to be held in October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan.  

dates: 12-17 September 2010  
location: Libreville, Gabon  
e-mail: roa.information.officer@unep.org  
www: http://www.unep.org/roa/amcen/Amcen_Events/Biodiversity_Cop10/