CBD Alliance COP11 Briefing Notes

Over the past two months, civil society groups from all over the world within the CBD Alliance network have been discussing, debating and coming to agreement on what they believe to be the key issues for the Hyderabad COP.  Together we have prepared a set of 12 COP11 briefing notes on the following agenda items:

1. Nagoya Protocol on ABS: A tool to fight biopiracy?   (Agenda item 2)
2. Implementation and Integration of the Strategic Plan: Are we upto Speed? (Agenda item 3)
3. Biodiversity is a public good that needs public money.  (Agenda item 4)
4. Article 8(j) and Related Provisions: focus on Article 10(c) on customary sustainable use  (Agenda item 7)
5. Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity: Balancing on one leg?  (Agenda item 10)
6. Forests and REDD+ Safeguards (Agenda item 11.1 and 13.2)
7. Geoengineering: Dead End for Biodiversity? (Agenda item 11.2)
8. Biodiversity and Development: Bridging ‘The’ Gap (Agenda item 12)
9. Inland Waters (Agenda item 13.3)
10. Agricultural Biodiversity for Life:  Providing food, improving health and well-being and regenerating the environment  (Agenda 13.5)
11. Biofuels, Bioenergy and the Technologies of the new Bioeconomy: Are we continuing to fuel Biodiversity Loss? (Agenda item 13.8)
12. Synthetic Biology as a New and Emerging Issue for the CBD (new and emerging issue)

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