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Dr. Ole Hendrickson
January 1, 1970
| Cost: | Free |
Dr. Ole Hendrickson, Biodiversity Convention Office, NCR
Topic: International Year of Biodiversity 2010 – An opportunity to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services
Panel discussion to follow:
Dr. Dan Wicklum, Director General, Wildlife and Landscape Science, Environment Canada
Dr. Howard Powles, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, and Canadian Committee for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Dr. Marc Saner, Executive Director, Regulatory Governance Initiative, and Adjunct Professor, Biology, Carleton University
Date: Friday, January 8, 2009
Time: 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Senate Room, 608 Robertson Hall
The UN General Assembly declared 2010 as International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) with a view to bringing greater attention to the continuing issue of biodiversity loss and its social, economic, environmental and cultural implications; and desigated the Montreal-based UN Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as focal point for IYB activities. Globally, 2010 could see the creation of a new Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, possibly during a special 1-day high-level segment of the General Assembly in September 2010. Also in 2010, a 15-member expert panel convened by the Council of Canadian Academies will issue a report on “The State and Trends of Biodiversity Science in Canada: Are we equipped to understand the challenges of our biodiversity resources?