The EPA has yet to decide on the CBD-350.
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In July 2010 in Montreal, UNESCO co-organized an international conference on biological and cultural diversity which developed a proposal for a Joint UNESCO-CBD Programme on Biological and Cultural Diversity.
And like CBD, Wal-Mart has struggled in this volatile market, mounting a failed joint venture with Lojas Americanas and enduring a 35% drop in the Brazilian currency, thereal, in 2002.
The UNESCO-CBD Biodiversity Learning Kit project was also launched.
However, the 2011-2020 strategy of the CBD recognizes that biodiversity protection must be integrated into governmental accounting and decision-making.
The CBD Secretariat and the Global Environment Facility are working to ensure that the first meeting of the governing body of this historic instrument will take place in India in October 2012 back-to-back with CBD COP11.
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Instead he awarded the chief executive title to Augusto CruzAugusto Cruz, a ten-year veteran of CBD.
The changed language of conservation owes little to the well-intentioned work of the CBD.
In terms of thinking and vision, the CBD has been a strong supporter of the above-mentioned study on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), which provides local and national policymakers and the private sector with the methodologies required to synergistically promote conservation, poverty alleviation and development.
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Even then Wal-Mart is only half the size of CBD, which is why some see a buying binge that has barely begun.
Since it emerged last month that Abilio Diniz, the chairman of CBD, had contacted Carrefour to discuss a possible tie-up, Casino and Mr Diniz have been at daggers drawn.
Members of the Sendai scientific community were amply represented in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the Japanese city of Nagoya, in mid-October 2010.
The 747-room Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, located on a sprawling 15-acre compound on the western edge of the CBD, is a legendary stop for diplomats, CEOs and celebs escaping the bustle of the city.
For a pleasing dose of colonial-era luxury and space-age design, check into the 112-room Capella Singapore, located just south of the CBD on Sentosa Island.
All this good stuff, however, has little to do with the CBD, the 193 parties to which began one of their two-yearly meetings this week in Nagoya (America is not one of them, having not ratified the convention).
It is Asia-meets-Las Vegas at the enormous, eye-catching and now iconic 2, 561-room Marina Bay Sands on the eastern edge of the CBD.
The CBD website in turn hosts intergovernmental platforms for the Rio Conventions and the Biodiversity-related Conventions .
That is why the CBD has programmes of work on all of these issues, and why our 2011-2020 strategic plan was negotiated and adopted with the participation of stakeholders at every level: youth, indigenous leaders, city mayors, development agencies, the climate change community, parliamentarians, business leaders, environment ministers and heads of state.
In response to concerns that large-scale ocean fertilization might be attempted before its consequences were fully understood, CBD, Parties to the LC and LP and IOC have urged governments to ensure that ocean fertilization activities do not take place until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities, including an assessment of associated risks.
Fashionistas and celebs hole up in the modernist chic 31-room Establishment Hotel located in a converted warehouse building in the middle of the CBD, adjacent to some of the hottest restaurants and bars in the city.
In 2008, the 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) decided that no further ocean fertilization activities for whatever purpose should be carried out in non-coastal waters until there was stronger scientific justification, assessed through a global regulatory mechanism.
For longer stays, consider the newly opened five-star ADGE Apartment Hotel, a collection of two-bedroom, two-bath, open-plan apartments located in the creative hub of Surry Hills on the southern fringe of the CBD.
Another way to play strength in gold is to buy shares of some lesser known gold stocks: Hesler recommends Kinross Gold (amex: KGC - news - people ) and Golden Star Resources (amex: GSS - news - people ), as well as Cumberland Resources, which trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange as CBD.
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