During his official visit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Anada Tiéga, Secretary-General of the Ramsar Convention, discussed the new work programme between the two Conventions, which includes support to the implementation of the UN Decade on Biodiversity, and will be submitted to their respective Conferences of the Parties in 2012.
19 September 2011: A new work programme between the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has been finalized, following an official visit to the CBD Secretariat in Montreal, Canada by Anada Tiéga, Secretary-General of the Ramsar Convention. The work plan will be submitted to their respective Conferences of the Parties (COPs) in 2012.
Tiéga met with the staff of all the relevant divisions of the CBD Secretariat to finalize the new work programme between the two Conventions, which includes support to the implementation of the UN Decade on Biodiversity. He commented on the interrelationship between biodiversity, water and wetland issues, and praised the work of the CBD Secretariat on cities and biodiversity and indicated the Ramsar Secretariat’s intent to follow this approach in its own work.
Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, underscored the importance of synergy among the biodiversity-related conventions to “meet the unprecedented challenges to translate the Aichi Biodiversity Targets into reality,” noting that the new work programme between the CBD and the Ramsar Convention responds to this need. [Ramsar Press Release]