The Convention requires countries to prepare a national biodiversity strategy (or equivalent instrument) and to ensure that this strategy is mainstreamed into the planning and activities of all those sectors whose activities can have an impact (positive and negative) on biodiversity.

The EU cannot alter the international coalition s strategy alone.

This is the strategy that most EU countries, Germany in particular, have chosen.

In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.

That is a strategy that will leave the US and the EU weaker, not stronger.

Merkel s proposals do not reflect a German strategy aimed at leading the EU through this crisis.

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.

The EU cannot alter the international coalition s strategy alone. But a united EU can act as a powerful advocate for a better and more coordinated international approach.

In any comprehensive strategy for engagement with Asia, the EU is only as strong as its parts.

The Biodiversity Bargain

The Price of Biodiversity

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

Non proliferation efforts are guided by the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction of December 2003.

(iv) 2002 2003 Director of the EU Policy and Legal Advice Centre in Belgrade (tasked by the European Commission with assisting Serbia and Montenegro with the EU accession strategy, see www.plac.yu.org).

The EU Programme for Action, announced earlier this year, outlines our future strategy for combating HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

C. Public goods and biodiversity

Effective consultation and mutual cooperation should be promoted under the national action programmes (NAPs) (UNCCD), National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) (CBD) and national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) (UNFCCC).

The EU must recognize that the pan European nature of this problem demands a comprehensive and effective strategy for Roma inclusion.

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

(i) Understanding, monitoring and conserving biodiversity.

Full trade liberalization in Latin America, although difficult to achieve, must be made central to EU strategy, and would boost economic growth.

I hope that the Spanish EU Presidency will build on this experience to champion the launch of a comprehensive European Roma strategy.

On the basis of the conclusions of the WSSD in Johannesburg, the Netherlands has developed a sustainable development strategy called Sustainable Action', which addresses five major themes water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity.

WoRMS has established formal agreements with several other biodiversity projects, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Encyclopedia of Life.

61 203. International Year of Biodiversity, 2010

2010 was the International Year of Biodiversity.

Mr. Merle Alexander (Canadian Indigenous Biodiversity Network)

Under the European Union (EU) Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova, signed in February 2005, his Government was committed to following the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and its export control regimes.

Of course, a common EU security strategy is not meant to undermine the rights of individual member states to choose their internal energy policies.

The EU Strategy on Weapons of Mass Destruction indicates that positive and negative security assurances can play an important role in the NPT regime.

1. Declares 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity

Biodiversity and climatic stability are global public goods.

Debt relief may help Madagascar protect its biodiversity.

To further facilitate market access, UNCTAD and partners also stepped up efforts to analyse and discuss relevant EU legislation that affects trade of products and services derived from biodiversity, particularly ingredients for cosmetics, pharmaceutical and foods industries.

Last but not least, any solution presupposes the most important ingredient of all an effective EU strategy to revive and sustain growth in southern Europe.

On energy, it is picking off individual EU member states and signing long term deals that undermine the core principles of the EU s common strategy.

The EU has more scope for short term measures, and should develop a multi dimensional solidarity strategy as a signal to both Ukraine and Russia.

Jason Clay How big brands can help save biodiversity

Desertification contributes significantly to climate change and biodiversity loss.

The Impact of Industrial Longline Fishing on Marine Biodiversity

But the good news is that the EU and NATO are much better positioned to develop an ambitious strategy than they were vis à vis Central and Eastern Europe a decade ago. If the EU and NATO decide to launch a bold outreach strategy for the region, they will be able to draw on existing tools, conceptual talent, and practical experience.

UNEP, through its biodiversity arm at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), has produced a number of assessments focusing on species and ecosystems biodiversity including

The State Institute for Nature Protection was developing a national list of biodiversity indicators and setting up a national biodiversity monitoring programme to improve nature conservation.