CIRF (Centro italiano riqualificazione fluviale), Regione Emilia-Romagna and Consorzio di Bonifica dell’Emilia Centrale, organize the River Requalification week from 22 to 26 october 2018, as part of the networking activities of the project LIFE RINASCE (LIFE13 ENV/IT/000169). The Congress shall promote comparison about river requalification and during the meeting some significant experiences about improvement of the ecological status of watercourses will be shown; planning and management of sustainability of water basins will also be discussed at the conference.
As part of the networking action with LIFE RINASCE and LIFE RII projects, representatives of the LIFE RISORGIVE project will participate to the Congress to discuss the principles of river requalification in Italy and share technical information.
The full agenda of the Congress is available here.
For more information on networking activities of the project LIFE RISORGIVE, visit the dedicated page on our website – click here –.
Born in Florence in 2003 through the collaboration between Slow Food International and Slow Food Italia and with the contribution of the Tuscany Region, the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity Onlus is the operative organism for the protection of food biodiversity. Activated in more than 100 countries, the Foundation coordinates and promotes Slow Food’s projects to protect biodiversity worldwide: Presidia, Taste of the Taste, Africa Gardens, Slow Food Alliance of Chefs, Earth Markets and other projects. The objective of these Slow Food Foundation projects is to promote a model of agriculture, based on local biodiversity, respect for local territory and local culture. An agriculture in balance with the environment that has as its main goals food sovereignty and access to all communities to a good, clean, and just food.
The Green Wave is a global biodiversity campaign to educate children and youth about biodiversity. Each year, The Green Wave will contribute to worldwide celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). It also supports other national, international and global tree planting initiatives such as the UNEP-led Billion Tree Campaign.
The key messages of the campaign are threefold:
Children and youth around the world want a healthy, biodiverse future
Children and youth around the world will unite and take action for biodiversity
Children and youth are working towards the 2020 Aichi biodiversity target of reducing biodiversity loss.
The Green Wave builds on the 20+10 Schools & Trees for Biodiversity project initiated and carried out in 2007 in schools in ten countries around the world as a contribution to the UNEP Plant for the Planet Billion Tree Campaign and celebration of IDB 2007.
In participating schools, students plant a locally important tree species in or near their schoolyard. Ideally, the tree species would also be locally indigenous. Where possible, the tree should be planted on 22 May – IDB. In some countries, it may be too hot, too cold, too rainy, too dry or too something else to plant on 22 May. If such conditions apply in your country, you should plant in another month but still hold a special ceremony on 22 May.
On 22 May, students around the world will count down to 10:00 local time, when they will water their tree in their respective schoolyards, thereby creating a figurative “green wave” starting in the far east and traveling west around the world.
Throughout the day, students can upload photos and text summaries on The Green Wave website to share their tree-planting story with other children and youth from around the world. The interactive map will be launched at 20:20 local time, thereby creating a second “green wave”.
The OECD provides governments with analysis to support the development of biodiversity policies that are economically efficient, environmentally effective and distributionally equitable. Policy analysis by the OECD focuses on the economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the use of economic instruments, incentives, and other policy measures to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. This work also supports the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The theme of OECD Global Forum on Environment is “Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development”.
OECD Global Forum on Environment (GFENV) is a venue that brings together international experts from member and non-member economies to share experiences and explore common policy issues focusing principally on the environmental dimension of sustainable development and its linkages with economic and social policies. Issues to be addressed in the Global Forum on Environment are shaped based on the current work of the OECD Environment Programme, by focusing on one or two priority issues on the global environmental agenda each year.
The objective of the forum are:
Raise awareness and understanding of the environment dimension of sustainable development issues worldwide;
Facilitate information-sharing on environmental issues among policy makers, private sector actors and civil society representatives;
Promote exchange of information and lessons learned among OECD and non-OECD countries
The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity. In December 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted 22 May as IDB, to commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on 22 May 1992 by the Nairobi Final Act of the Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This was partly done because it was difficult for many countries to plan and carry out suitable celebrations for the date of 29 December, given the number of holidays that coincide around that time of year. This theme has been chosen to coincide with the observance of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its Resolution 70/193 and for which the United Nations World Tourism Organization is providing leadership.
Biodiversity, at the level of species and ecosystems, provides an important foundation for many aspects of tourism. Recognition of the great importance to tourism economies of attractive landscapes and a rich biodiversity underpins the political and economic case for biodiversity conservation. Many issues addressed under the Convention on Biological Diversity directly affect the tourism sector. A well-managed tourist sector can contribute significantly to reducing threats to, and maintain or increase, key wildlife populations and biodiversity values through tourism revenue.
Tourism relates to many of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. For some Targets (for example 5, 8, 9, 10 and 12) this is primarily about ensuring greater control and management to reduce damage to biodiversity from tourism. For others (1, 11, 15, 18, and 20) this is about pursuing the positive contribution of tourism to biodiversity awareness, protected areas, habitat restoration, community engagement, and resource mobilization. A further dimension is the better integration of biodiversity and sustainability into development policies and business models that include tourism, thereby supporting Aichi Biodiversity Targets 2 and 4.
Celebration of the IDB under this theme therefore provides an opportunity to raise awareness and action towards the important contribution of sustainable tourism both to economic growth and to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Furthermore, the theme also provides a unique opportunity to contribute to ongoing initiatives such as the Sustainable Tourism Programme of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns and to promote the CBD Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism Development.
We invite Parties and organizations that have already initiated national plans for activities to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity to keep the Secretariat informed of such plans and other noteworthy activities organized by NGOs or other organizations so that they may be included in these pages
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