4. Goal
Education, information and training people for
getting involved in biodiversity conservation
activities at local and regional level in
supporting the Convention on Biological
Diversity proper implementation at local level.
5. Possible activities
Green space
Biodiversity conservation measures
Agriculture biodiversity
Invasive alien species
Co-existence of new technologies and traditional knowledge
Intellectual property rights
Developing and strengthening the urban plan develop. and management
New challenges
6. Communities and outputs
Project should apply to different kind of communities:
Villages to cities
Outputs:
Trained people, more informed, educated and committed
Guidelines for communities in working with small and large
communities with different backgrounds identifying strength and
weakness
Data base development for reporting the local biodiversity status
of conservation – in support activities from the community level
– to be validated by science - for achieving the CBD goals.
7. 700 European species are threatened, while the number of alien
exotic species in Pan-Europe continues to rise
(In EEA’s fourth Pan-European Assessment)
8. Current status of biodiversity
Most important factors for biodiversity loss*:
Alteration and destruction of habitat
(Ex: soil use change, physical change and draining of rivers, loss of coral
reefs, damage in ocean floor due to some fishing techniques)
Over-exploitation
Invasive alien species
Climate change
Pollution
In Millennium Ecosystem Analysis (MEA, 2005)
9. Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf*
*Executive Secretary of the CBD
On the occasion of the
Second World Cities Summit 2010
Singapore, 30 June 2010
“Last month, the CBD Secretariat released the third
edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook.
Based on 120 national reports submitted by Parties,
10. the report demonstrates that the international
community (...) has failed to fulfil its commitment
to reduce substantially the rate of loss of biodiversity
by 2010.
The report confirms that we continue to lose
biodiversity at unprecedented rates:
today, species extinction rates
may be 1,000 times higher
than the natural rate.
11. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
called for a new biodiversity vision for a healthy and
sustainable future for mankind.
This new vision should integrate the distinct
contribution of cities in protecting life on Earth.
12. … the world’s urban population now exceeds that
of rural areas. A new era has been born - the era
of “Homo urbanus”, the city dweller.
This development is expected to have far-reaching
implications for humanity and for biodiversity.
Cities occupy 2 per cent of the planet’s surface,
but their residents use 75 per cent of the Earth’s
natural resources.
13. LAB – Local Action for Biodiversity
http://www.iclei.org/lab
14. BIO-LOCAL*
Diversity of local actions for
Biodiversity
Local and regional biodiversity
Consumption and biodiversity
Agricultural biodiversity
A project of the Municipality of Moita (Portugal)
24. 1. “Check-in”
Adding more knowledge on ones's “luggage”
Impact on working conditions?
Impact on animal welfare?
Impact of GEE?
Impact of packaging?
Impact on Biodiversity?
38. Stakeholders / partners
Local Councils (Municipalities)
Local Cooperatives and Businesses
Other NGOs
Strenghts and Opportunities:
Local Councils have frequently transportation means, good
connection with school community and good channels for
communication with general public and registration logistics
Weaknesses and Threats:
Local Councils may not have a coherent policy, ex. on urban
planning and development
Local businesses may be shops linked to national or
multinational companies
Difficult to evaluate results in awareness projects
39. Some questions
Added value of Pan-Europe
Data base on local biodiversity
Guide-lines on how to deal with local
communities