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Looking back at COP11 in India

Maria Schultz and Thomas Elmqvist on the latest CBD conference in India

With the latest conference of the parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity just behind us, we asked centre colleagues Maria Schultz and Thomas Elmqvist to give their perspectives on the conference; how the centre contributed and what they considered to be the most important outcomes.

The conference took place in Hyderabad, India.

Maria Schultz is head of the SwedBio programme at the centre and has for many years been part of the Swedish delegation to the official COP negotiations on biological diversity. Over the last couple of years, Schultz has successfully organised a series of dialogue seminars aimed to help stakeholders interact in a more informal and non-committing manner that could help the progression in the more formal, high-level negotiations.

Thomas Elmqvist is is a professor in Natural Resource Management with a key focus on the relations between urbanisation and biodiversity conservation. In Hyderabad, Elmqvist launched the world's first global assessment on the relations between urban growth and biodiversity conservation.

Published: 2012-10-24

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The Conference of the Parties is the governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and advances implementation of the convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic meetings.

At the COP 11 meeting in Hyderabad, India, the world's governments agreed to increase funding in support of actions to halt the rate of loss of biodiversity. Developed countries agreed to double funding to support efforts in developing states towards meeting the internationally-agreed Biodiversity Targets, and the main goals of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

Read more about the CBD and outcomes from COP11 here

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