News and Updateshttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/en-US2008-07-24T11:32:13ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Final ECOshttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/31/final-ecos.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-31T13:30:38ZThursday here.

Friday here.  

Good news on Ocean Fertliziation! A de facto moratorium was acheived in the final day at COP. Stay tuned for an ECO - just after, with all the news.

]]>Wednesday....http://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/28/wednesday.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-28T08:57:12ZMinisters are arriving (even some heads of state, such as Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper). Today's ECO here.


]]>Tuesday ECO and Progress Reporthttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/27/tuesday-eco-and-progress-report.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-27T10:54:20ZECO COP 9Read Today's ECO here. Articles inlcude - Progress Report on COP9; Make PoWPA a reality; Women and Biodiversity; Canada and Japan stalling on ABS; Anywhere but Canada!; COP Hor[r]o[r]scope; Biodiversity Offsets

Civil society organizations held a press conference this morning focusing on our "half time" report. Results here.

Jessica  

 

]]>Monday's ECOhttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/26/mondays-eco.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-26T08:38:20ZECO COP 9It is up here. Topics include: Will COP 9 be the death of 8(j)?; Sustainable Consumption and Production; Tourism and Biodiversity; Japan making waves (again); EU and ABS; Food prices hike in spite of record production levels. 

 

]]>ECOs - Thursday and Fridayhttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/25/ecos-thursday-and-friday.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-25T09:13:34ZThursday - A Call to Action on the World Food Emergency, Some history on Jeffrey Sachs, Ocean Fertilization, Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy, WWF on Marine Protected Areas, Nature is more than Carbon, Brazil agrofuels update. Read it HERE. 

 Friday: Gene Giants Brand Themselves as Climate Saviours; UN criticizes genetically engineered crops in Indian Agriculture; Who is implementing the Forest PoW?; 2010 Target, Protected Areas, and Life-web; Stocks down on Thursday; Addressing hunger and food security: conserving agricultural biodiversity locally; Notes from the COP. Read it HERE.

 Stay up to date at www.undercovercop.org

]]>Wednesday's ECOhttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/21/wednesdays-eco.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-21T15:32:01ZECOArticles -  No protected areas without recognition of rights; Who is afraid of NGOs’ proposals? Canada !; Invasive Alien Species: An Ounce of Prevention; Alternative COP theme Song; Youth Demands to COP 9; Should Parties subsidize business engagemet; Golden Chainsaw award to Canada!!

Check it out here.

]]>Tuesday's ECO uphttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/20/tuesdays-eco-up.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-20T09:49:43ZECOFind it here.

Check out undercovercop for more info on the negotiations.  

]]>Opening Day @ the COPhttp://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/19/opening-day-the-cop.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-19T15:35:33ZMuch to report. But first, the first ECO is up here. On the front of the ECO is the content of our press conference held this morning, which gives 10 CSO demands for action at COP 9.  Other languages are coming.

And, we had an amazing opening statement, read by Ms. Camilla Morena from Brazil.

 

 

 

]]>MOP ECO #2http://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/13/mop-eco-2.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-13T19:58:16ZThe second ECO is up. Click here

In this edition: No to corporate compact on liability and redress, Exposing the public researchers in PRRI, Japan must not block a strong liability agreement, and the view from some Brazilian NGOs and social movements on the German-Brazilian Agrofuel energy agreement.  

]]>Update re: COP 9 and MOP/COP 4http://www.cbdalliance.org/blog/2008/5/12/update-re-cop-9-and-mopcop-4.htmlJessica Dempsey2008-05-12T06:33:26ZECO Biosafety COP 9All,

Please see here for an update on preparatory events for civil society the weekend before COP. Open to all civil society groups. Full agendas available from me [jdempsey AT interchange.ubc.ca]. Location information here.

 The CBD Alliance has also launched a media advisory briefing, available here. It is a very useful briefing of some of the issues up for negotiation, in clear and simple language. Check it out.

We also just finished the first ECO for the MOP/COP 4 - check it out here.

More updates soon, although most of the action will take place on www.undercovercop.org which we hope will be fully functioning later this week, just in time for the COP.

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