The five key issues include: biodiversity and livelihoods; integration of value of biodiversity in national planning and accounting process; strategic resource mobilization; coastal and marine biodiversity; and operationalization of the Nagoya Protocol.
1 August 2011: Highlighting that the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) stands apart as the only environmental convention “at the heart of human well-being,” Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of Environment and Forests of India, host of the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11), identified five key issues for COP 11’s High-level Segment.
COP 11 will take place from 8-19 October 2012, in Hyderabad, India, with the High-level Segment held in the last three days.
The five key issues include: biodiversity and livelihoods; integration of value of biodiversity in national planning and accounting process; strategic resource mobilization; coastal and marine biodiversity; and operationalization of the Nagoya Protocol. [Jayanthi Natarajan’s Letter]