[Taxacom] Biodiversity policy lecture, London, 14th April 2011

[James Cotton]

The Fourth Annual Systematics Association/Linnean Society Biodiversity Policy Lecture 

Dr Peter Bridgewater
Chair, Joint Nature Conservation Committee
“Seeing REDD: Science, Policy and Politics in Biodiversity and Climate Change

14 April 2011, 6pm
Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF
Tea will be served in the Library from 5.30pm and the lecture will be
followed by a wine reception.


In late October 2010 The Convention on Biological Diversity held its tenth meeting, regarded as successfully achieving a new target for 2020, having missed the target set for 2010.  As the abstract is being written preparations are in hand for the 16th meeting of the Framework Convention on climate Change, to be held in Cancun, December 2010.  A key issue for both conventions is that or Reducing Emissions (of carbon) from Deforestation and (forest) degadation (REDD).  This has morphed to REDD+ in recent discussions, where the plus includes conservation measures for forests.  This has led to discussions about where the discussions and decisions on forest, carbon and biodiversity should be conducted within the UN system.  And it ignores the inconvenient truth that while forests are a significant carbon moderator there are other ecosystems on earth!  This lecture will explore the links between biodiversity and climate change, the avenues for sensible national and international discussion and the likely policy outcomes for biodiversity in the coming decades.


For further information see
http://www.systass.org/news/index.shtml#BiodiversityPolicyLecture2011
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James Cotton
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Hinxton,
Cambridge.
CB10 1SA
UK

james.cotton at sanger.ac.uk
01223 494864



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