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[Square Brackets] CBD Newsletter for Civil Society Issue 3 | May 2010 [square brackets] CBD Newsletter for Civil Society Issue 3 | May 2010 This edition is published to coincide with the Fourteenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 14), 10-21 May in Nairobi, Kenya; followed by the Third Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open- ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 3), being held in Nairobi 24-28 May. This newsletter aims to present a diversity of civil society opinions. The views expressed in the articles are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, its Secretariat or the CBD Alliance Silvia Ribeiro from the ETC Group in Copenhagen during the climate meetings (Photo courtesy Diana Bronson/ETC Group) Critical decisions ahead Geoengineering: Moving Cautiously In this International Year of Biodiversity, the fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on towards a Bolder, Broader Test Ban Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and COP 10 will be faced with critical deci- sions on geoengineering. The fundamental By Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group geoengineering in general, not only on issue before the international community is the particulars of ocean fertilization. These whether these technologies should be under- n a laudable exercise of precaution at the last include an upsurge of popular and scientific taken as a response to the climate crisis or, Conference of the Parties (COP) in Bonn in media coverage, prestigious publications rather, whether their potential risks outweigh 2008, Parties to the Convention on Biological looking favourably upon geoengineering as any theoretical benefits that they may have as I 3 Diversity (CBD) adopted a de facto moratorium Plan B, a number of statements adopted by “climate change solutions.” The implications on ocean fertilization.1 The wisdom of that deci- institutions and professional societies,4 joint for human rights, for biodiversity, for peace sion was reaffirmed most recently by a study Parliamentary and Congressional hearings in and security, and for international relations showing that dumping iron in the ocean can the United Kingdom and the United States, writ large are vast. It is urgent that the United provoke toxic blooms and neurological disor- debates in other international bodies such as Nations (UN) be prepared to prevent unilat- ders in marine mammals.2 the London Convention, a number of emerg- eral actions on the part of countries that have ing companies anxious to get in on the mar- the will and the means to execute geoengin- In the two years since COP 9 there has been ket, and non-profits keen to maintain existing eering strategies independent of international a flurry of developments and debates on governance loopholes. continued on page 2 Sobrevivencia/Friends of the Earth- Kabir Bavikatte, and Harry Jonas ........ 9 Monitoring Centre; with input in this issue Paraguay and Global Forest Coalition ... 5 from Damon Stanwell-Smith, Peter Geoengineering: Moving Cautiously Taking a Community Biodiversity Twenty Percent of Biological Diversity Herkenrath, Philip Bubb and towards a Bolder, Broader Test Ban Management Approach to ABS at Risk in Africa By Dr. Kenneth Odero, Anna Chenery .......................... 11 By Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group .......... 1 in Local Communities: The Nepal Executive Director, Climate XL Africa .... 7 Experience By Bikash Paudel, Pitambar Community Actions for Global Mobilizing all Stakeholders in the Impact By Ana Maria Varea, National Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Shrestha, B B Tamang and Pratap Shrestha. Fight for Biodiversity, Message from Coordinator, Small Grants Programme, and Private Sector Engagement By Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Ecuador ................................. 12 Convention on Biological Diversity... 2 Britta Paetzold, TRAFFIC/WWF Germany, and Development (LI-BIRD), Pokhara, Nepal ..................................... 10 Perspectives Q&A, Promoting the Time for Bold and Ambitious and Anastasiya Timoshyna, TRAFFIC Europe ...................................... 8 exchange of viewpoints on the 2010 New Biodiversity Target and How the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Biodiversity Target and the way Strategic Plan, Message from the A Rights-based Approach to Partnership Communicates its forward for both the Convention CBD Alliance ............................ 3 Supporting Indigenous and Message across Sectors, By Tristan and in setting new biodiversity From REDD “Realities” to REDD Community Conserved Areas Tyrrell, 2010 Biodiversity Indicators targets ................................... 14 “Absurdities” By Simone Lovera, By Holly Shrumm, Barbara Lassen, Partnership, UNEP World Conservation Let’s save paper! Please consider reading on-screen. Page 2 | Issue 3 May 2010 Geoengineering Mobilizing all Stakeholders in continued from page 1 the Fight for Biodiversity agreements. Any decision governing these technologies must be based on a solid multi- lateral agreement as the impacts will, by defin- ition, be global—and inequitable. From the and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-14) and Secretariat: the third meeting of the Working Group on There have already been attempts to develop Message from Review of Implementation of the Convention “voluntary guidelines” for research and exper- Ahmed Djoghlaf, (WGRI-3), being held in Nairobi in May 2010. imentation of these technologies. The non- Executive Secretary, The new Strategic Plan has attempted to profit Climate Response Fund, closely linked Convention on improve on the previous plan in two key with commercial ocean fertilization interests, Biological Diversity ways. Firstly, by providing a mission and tar- met with significant opposition when it tried gets for 2020 that are both achievable and to self-regulate the field.5 Moreover, some nly through the involvement and more measureable, with a clear underlying prominent scientists working on these tech- full engagement of all stakehold- logic consistent with the available scientific nologies actually believe a UN process should O ers can we achieve the goals of the evidence, including a scientific review of bio- be avoided,6 while certain think tanks argue Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and diversity projections prepared for the third that no international agreement whatsoever halt the alarming loss of biodiversity. Despite edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook. is required.7 The CBD’s near universal ratifica- some success stories, we have failed to meet Secondly, by providing a more effective tion, its capacity to include social impacts as the target set by governments in 2002 to framework, which includes national tar- it undertakes to protect biodiversity and its reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity. We need gets, for national implementation of the niche contribution to climate change debates a new way of doing business, a new think- three objectives of the Convention, appro- equips it well to play an important role. It is ing, and a new approach for preparing, agree- priate support mechanisms and a more vital that the 2008 moratorium on ocean fer- ing and implementing together the new robust approach to monitoring and review tilization be strengthened and broadened Strategic Plan of the Convention for the period at both national and global levels, as well to cover other geoengineering technologies 2011-2020: a plan that includes a 2050 biodi- as an enhanced role for the COP in review- threatening biodiversity at a global scale. versity vision, 2020 targets and sub-targets, as ing implementation and learning from past well as means of implementation and moni- experience. Geoengineering is different from other toring and evaluation mechanisms. As under- technological interventions on ecosys- lined by the United Nations Secretary-General, “Non-governmental organizations are tems in that, by definition, it is intended to Ban Ki-moon, putting off critical decisions until integral partners in moving forward, have impacts at the planetary scale. It is later is no longer an option for humanity. the antithesis of small and local initiatives as they played a leading role in the that promote adapting to climate change At the tenth meeting of the Conference of initial conception, negotiation and by strengthening resilience or modifying the Parties to the CBD (COP 10) in Nagoya, adoption of the Convention and continue behaviour. Whether one intends to suck car- Japan, the 193 Parties to the CBD will make a bon dioxide out of the atmosphere by stim- final assessment of progress toward the 2010 to shape policy development” ulating the growth of phytoplankton (that Biodiversity Target, create new biodiversity will in turn sequester excess CO2 on the bot- targets for 2020 and 2050, finalize a com- Of utmost importance to the Convention is tom of the sea) or shoot sulphates into the prehensive post-2010 Strategic Plan, and the mobilization of all sectors of society in stratosphere in order to reflect more sun- establish an international regime on access the fight to preserve our biological resources. light back to space (masking the warm- and benefit-sharing. All of this is being done Civil society and non-governmental organ- ing effect of increased greenhouse gases), using a bottom-up approach, with the par- izations are integral partners in moving for- these schemes can only theoretically affect ticipation of a broad range of stakehold- ward. NGOs played a leading role in the initial
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