Environmental Policy Forum: Global and European Biodiversity Policy after Nagoya

 

The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) kindly invite you to their next Environmental Policy Forum, to be held on January 25, 2011 with:

• Mr. Hugo-Maria Schally, Head of unit, Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Processes and Trade Issues, European Commission, DG Environment.
• Second speaker – to be confirmed

In October 2010, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, adopted the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, the Nagoya Protocol on access to and benefit sharing from genetic resources, and a strategy for mobilizing financial resources for the effective implementation of the Convention.

After the failure of international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009, the Nagoya conference has therefore been heralded as a major success of multilateral environmental governance. This Environmental Policy Forum aims to assess the main outcomes of the Nagoya conference with particular emphasis on the Nagoya Protocol, shed light on the role and performance of the EU in the negotiations and explore the future challenges in trying to fully implement the Protocol and the other Nagoya outcomes in the EU and worldwide.
 

 

Participation is free of charge and open to all, but due to space limitations, registration is required.  Those wanting to participate can send an email to mark.de.clerck@vub.ac.be

The programme will start at 12:00 with a lunch reception, followed by the presentations at 12:30

Location:
Institute for European Studies
Pleinlaan 15, 5th floor
1050 Brussels