United Nations General Assembly – Special Session Biodiversity (UNGA – SS Biodiversity)
The United Nations is holding a special biodiversity day, offering a unique chance to raise awareness on the loss of biodiversity and, for world leaders, to push for political support to a global response to the challenges we all face. Many topics relating to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be raised.This also provides an excellent political forum to seek out more effective synergies among the three Rio Conventions.
To emphasise the importance of this “International Year of Biodiversity”, the General Assembly of the United Nations has decided to host a Special High Level Session on the topic of Biodiversity on 22 September 2010, on the eve of the opening of its 56th general session.
This is an historic chance to raise general awareness of the world crisis of the loss of biodiversity.
It also provides a chance for world leaders to push for decisive political support to a global response to the challenges facing biodiversity, especially given the urgency for more sustained action in implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to achieve each of its three fundamental objectives.
Many topics relating to the CBD will be raised during this session:post-2010 objectives, biodiversity and climate change links, reduction of poverty and development, biodiversity and the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
This also provides an excellent political forum to seek out more effective synergies among the three Rio Conventions.
The results of negotiations regarding the creation or otherwise of an intergovernmental political/scientific platform on biodiversity and the services provided by ecosystems (IPBES-3, June 2010, South Korea) shall also be given during this session.
Finally, this unique event will take place just one month before the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-10) of the CBD in Japan.The results of discussions will be sent to the High Level Segment of the COP (27-29 October 2010) and will therefore play an important role.