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Halting the unprecedented erosion of biodiversity and raising awareness of the need to change our behaviour are urgent priorities. This was the unanimous conclusion of participants at the high level event organized at UNESCO Headquarters on 21 and 22 January.
The Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, declared in a video message at the opening of the meeting that ”We must not be discouraged by the outcomes” of the UN Climate Change Conference last December in Copenhagen. Instead, she said, evoking the destruction of natural habitats and accelerated biodiversity loss, “we must change current trends. […] The future we choose for our planet is in our hands.” (...)
Participants at today’s event, which was sponsored by UNESCO with the support of the French National Museum of Natural History, included Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); Jochen Flasbarth, President of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity; Monique Barbut, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Biodiversity Facility; and Angel Cropper, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. (...)

More information:
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47254&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7998&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8090&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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