On Friday (April 8), Brazil's Minister of the Environment, Izabella Teixeira, will launch a public consultation on Brazil's biodiversity strategy towards 2020. The UK's Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Caroline Spelman, will participate in the event.
Biodiversity Dialogues: Building the Brazilian Strategy for 2020 will engage Brazilian society in a process to strengthen the domestic implementation of the agreements made at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10), which took place in October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.
The event aims to involve a wide range of representatives from academia, the private sector, civil society and government to discuss how Brazil can contribute to the achievement of the Nagoya agreements to protect biodiversity.
The Dialogues will be led by the Brazilian Environment Ministry, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), WWF-Brazil and IPÊ (the Ecological Research Institute). The UK's Department of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is supporting the initiative. The outcome - an action plan - will be presented at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012.
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