On December 31, the International Year of Biodiversity concluded. And in 2011 theInternational Decade of Biodiversity, which the United Nations will officially inaugurate on May 22 with a ceremony to be held in Tokyo (Japan). As the organizers have announced, every October 29 until 2020 the Japanese city of Nagoya will hold a working meeting at the level of experts to analyze the progress made in the preservation of biodiversity.
Moreover, over the next decade, the newly createdIntergovernmental Scientific Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems(IPBES) will catalyze the global response to the loss of biodiversity, “economically important” forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems. ? IPBES represents a significant advance in terms of organizing a global response to the loss of living organisms and forests, waterways, coral reefs, and other ecosystems that underpin all life on Earth,? including? economic life ?, said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of theUnited Nations Environment Program(UNEP). The work of IPBES, which is a reflection in many aspects of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will focus on identifying and prioritizing key scientific information, necessary for adequate political decision-making in matters of biodiversity and ecosystem services. .
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