The Mediterranean Regional Workshop for Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans: Coordinating Local and National Action in the Mediterranean Basin was co-organized by the City of Montpellier, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and the Japan Fund for Biodiversity.
Local authorities and representatives of government met, for the first time, in Montpellier from 17 to 19 January 2012 to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, including the 20 Aichi Targets,* in the Mediterranean region. Eleven countries from the Mediterranean region** and the European Union, including 21 participants representing a total of 15 cities*** as well as the mayors of Montpellier (France), Tlemcen (Algeria) and Tiberias (Israel), assembled in Montpellier at the first subregional workshop on capacity-building on strategies and action plans for biodiversity for the region as a whole. In addition to national representatives in charge of national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) from the region, representatives of local governments from each of the invited Mediterranean countries also participated in the workshop.
The participants looked at the complementary roles of strategies and action plans, subnational and local implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Strategic Plan. Moreover, the workshop provided a unique opportunity to peer-review the draft outlines of the first Global Outlook on Cities and Biodiversity to be presented to Rio+20 Summit (June 2012) and submitted to the Hyderabad Biodiversity Summit (October 2012).
Ms Kobie Brand, ICLEI Director, said: “This workshop starts a new and exciting phase in the collaboration between ICLEI, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and pioneering cities on biodiversity and ecosystem services, when we develop coherent and specific strategies and plans harmonized from global to regional, national and sub-national to local levels. ICLEI, through its Cities Biodiversity Center, is ready to share experiences and provide support and parameters for a future Mediterranean network of cities with the outstanding participation of one of our most recent Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) Pioneer projects, the City of Montpellier.”
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* The 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held from 18 to 29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, adopted Decision X/2 providing a revised and updated Strategic Plan for Biodiversity for the 2011-2020 period, including the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, aimed at reducing biodiversity loss and restoring the natural environment.
** Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Malta, Monaco, Morocco and Tunisia
*** Cairo Governorate, City of Belgrade, City of Sarajevo, City of Tiberias, City of Tlemcen, Gerenalitat de Catalunya, Municipality of Tirana, Municipality of Tkon, Observatoire R?gional de L’Environment et du D?veloppement de la R?gion de l’Oriental, Podgoritsa City, R?gion Languedoc Roussillon, R?gion Provence-Alpes-C?te d’Azur, Ville de Saint-Orens de Gameville and Ville de Tunis
Source: CBD, ICLEI
For further Information:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=NBSAPRW-CLAMED-01
http://iclei.org/index.php?id=1487&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4777&tx_ttnews[backPid]=983&cHash=231a0f764b
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