High-level General Assembly event to mark the International Year of Biodiversity Back to diary
Web addresswww.cbd.int/2010
Starts Wednesday 22 September 2010 at 07.00PM
Ends end date unspecified
The high-level event will provide a unique opportunity to raise awareness on the global biodiversity crisis and the urgent need for stronger action to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in order to achieve the Convention’s objectives. The meeting will provide an occasion for world leaders to provide political impetus and support for a sustained global response to the world’s biodiversity challenges, and the need to address each of the three objectives of the Convention.
During the high-level event, dialogue will be held on issues of strategic importance to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Roundtable discussions will be held on post-2010 biodiversity targets; the links between climate change and biodiversity; and the importance of biodiversity to poverty alleviation and development and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The event will serve also to contribute to the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, which will be held in parallel to it.