The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is taking place in Nagoya, Japan from 18 to 29 October 2010. The fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5) took place in Nagoya, from 11 to 15 October 2010.

Although it is a negotiation among government representatives, it’s also a space where organizations and social and indigenous movements take positions on a very important issue for all: our life also depends on biodiversity.

In-depth views from civil society - CBD Alliance briefings: Top Ten for COP 10

Overview: Biodiversity Justice: the way forward for life on earth

Future of the CBD: taking biodiversity from the margins to the centre

Finance, Economic Instruments and Biodiversity

The Nagoya Access and Benefit Sharing Protocol

Climate Change, Geoengineering and Biodiversity

Ending deforestation through socially just measures, not markets

Fuelling Biodiversity Loss: Biomass for Biofuels, Bioenergy, Biochar and the Technologies of the new Bioeconomy

Urgent political will needed to make Sustainable Use a reality

Agricultural biodiversity feeds the world!

Bringing equity to protected areas

Upholding Indigenous Peoples rights and supporting traditional knowledge

All the briefings in one pdf document

Other documents to the COP 10

Stop the Extermination of Biodiversity - Stop Genetically Engineered trees

Open letter to participants at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP X) on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the 5th Meeting of the Parties of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP V).

By Coecoceiba AT Costa Rica, Econexus, ETC Group, Global Justice Ecology Project, FASE, FOEI (Friends of the Earth International)  OLCA,  RALLT (Network for a free GE Latin America), RECOMA (Latinamerican network against Monoculture Tree Plantations, Redes AT Uruguay,  Sobrevivencia AT Paraguay,  World Rainforest Movement

For the Rights of the Sea - Oilwatch International statement to COP 10 of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Friends of the Earth Main Demands for CBD COP 10, Nagoya, Japan, 18-29 October 2010

From Nagoya to Cancun : stop the privatization of the commons - By ATTAC

Civil Society Organizations’ Statement to Plenary - 22 October 2010

Update on the Negotiations at COP-10: Will Biodiversity Survive the Process? – by Anne Petermann

 

Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan Risky Climate Techno-fixes Blocked - News Release - 29 October 2010 - www.etcgroup.org

 

 

Somosdiversidad.tv Only available in Spanish

Con motivo de la COP 10, Ecologistas en Acción,pone en marcha un canal de televisión por internet, que nace con el objetivo de acercar la décima Cumbre sobre Biodiversidad a quien desee informarse sobre todo lo que rodea a un encuentro decisivo para el futuro del planeta.

 

ECOs

ECO 1
It's about life and life is not a business

ECO 2
Civil Society Opening Statement

ECO 3
Towards Global Sustainability

ECO 4
Nagoya: Opportunity for a biodiversitybased forest definition

ECO5
Indigenous Representatives Denounce Canada’s Obstructionist Position at COP10

 

Links

CBD Alliance

Global Justice Ecology Project

Undercover COP

Camino a Nagoya

WRM special section on GM Trees

WRM special section on Agrofuels

WRM special section on Biodiversity

COP 10 Official Web Site