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Daily Reports/ Summary IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily web updates, daily and a summary reports from the Rio Conventions Pavilion. To download our reports, click the HTML or PDF icons below.
The Rio Conventions Pavilion (RCP) commenced on Tuesday, 9 October 2012, for sessions on the theme “Towards Integrated Science, Assessments and Monitoring for the Rio Conventions.” The event consisted of five panel sessions including: novel science-based approaches to assessing and responding to the biodiversity crisis; how integrated science can support the goals of the Rio Conventions; advancing the practice of vulnerability assessment for ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change; are we developing a growing body of convincing evidence on the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches (EBA) to adaptation; and science-policy interface for collaborative management of international waters.
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Novel Science-Based Approaches to Assessing and Responding to the Biodiversity Crisis
Panel L-R: Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI); Jonas Rupp, Conservation International (CI); Linda Krueger, Wildlife Conservation Society; and Georgios Sarantakos, Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
Neil Pratt, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat, opens the RCP.
Panel Moderator, Veronica Lo, CBD Secretariat
Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, IAI, listens to a presentation by Jonas Rupp, CI.
Linda Krueger, TEAM Network
Georgios Sarantakos, GEO
CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias emphasizes the importance of monitoring.
Participants at the RCP.
Preeti Soni, UNDP
Caroline Petersen, UNDP
Panel Moderator Neville Ash, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), discusses the effectiveness of EBA.
