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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, Nairobi, Kenya, 11-15 March 2019

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Published On :: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Opening statement by Ms. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the eighteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United Nations Headquarters, Ne

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Published On :: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: A report launched today shows that Asian consumers have an increasing awareness of the planet's biodiversity and want to see companies protecting it.

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Published On :: Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: The United Nations celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity by examining the fundamental role of nature in ensuring human health and good nutrition.

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Published On :: Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: The Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to partner with the Slow Food International for this year's celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity, on 22 May 2019, which focuses on biodiversity as the foundation of

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Published On :: Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Young people from around the world are encouraged to submit videos for the 2019 Global Youth Video Competition showcasing positive solutions on three themes: Nature-based Solutions for Food and Human Health; Cities and Local Action to Combat Cli

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Published On :: Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Message from the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Pasca-Palmer, on the occasion of the World Environment Day, 5 June 2019: "Beat Air Pollution".

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Published On :: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Message from the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, on the occasion of the World Oceans Day, 8 June 2019: "Gender and the Ocean".

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Published On :: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Presentation by Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary of UN Biodiversity Convention, for EU Environmental ministerial, Helsinki, Finland, July 11 2019

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Published On :: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Statement of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, UN Assistant Secretary-General, on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

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Published On :: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: In 1992, at the landmark Rio Earth Summit, the international community, in its wisdom, created three interrelated conventions to safeguard the future of the planet, all peoples, and indeed all life on earth: the United Nations Framework Conventi

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Published On :: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Government officials, experts and activists from around the world gather in Nairobi this week to open talks on a global agreement to safeguard life on Earth, in all its forms. The 27-30 August meeting marks the official start of negotiations tow

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Published On :: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Following a summer of dramatic heat waves and forest fires, and close on the heels of a landmark scientific report charting an unprecedented decline in nature, the global community came together from 27-30 August in Nairobi to deliberate over an

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Published On :: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: "Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth" is set to frame next year's UN Biodiversity Conference, to be held in October in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China.

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Published On :: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: The film highlights the importance of nature in tackling climate change, calling for the need to protect, restore and fund nature and mobilizing attention to scale nature-based solutions.

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Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2019: Acting Together to Achieving the three objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity will ensure that the children of today and tomorrow, along with their families and communities, ca

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Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Over the next five days, the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) body on science will meet to lay the groundwork for negotiations to prepare the next year's UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China and achieve an ambitious and

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Published On :: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: The Secretariats of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and Ja

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Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Nominations are now invited for The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2020. The call for nominations remains open until 30 March 2020.

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Published On :: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: The Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) subsidiary body on science suggested elements of the science base that will be used at next year's biennial UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China that will include discussions on an

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Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NS/ET/CP/88538 (2019-109): Date extension: Thematic Consultation on Transparent Implementation, Monitoring, Reporting and Review Mechanism, 20-22 February 2020 - Kunming, China and Thematic Consultation on Capacity Building a

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Published On :: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/ET/AR/DM/88533 (2019-112): Launch of the Bioland Tool for National Clearing-House Mechanism websites

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Published On :: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Agriculture and biodiversity have been inextricably linked for as long as we humans have been producing our own food. As the source of all variety in our crops and livestock, biodiversity is the very foundation of agriculture.

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Published On :: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: The nature that surrounds us, sustains us. Ensuring that it can continue to do so for future generations is a trust bestowed on us all.

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Published On :: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Acting Executive Secretary, welcomes announcement that biodiversity will be theme of the next year's World Environment Day: "We are delighted to see that biodiversity will be the focus of World Environment Da

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Published On :: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NVW/86292 (2019-117): Follow-up invitation to participate in and/or contribute to the piloting and further development of a methodology for the voluntary peer review of national biodiversity strategies and action plans

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Published On :: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fifty-seventh meeting of the Council of the Global Environment Facility, Wednesday, 18 December 2019, Washington D.C., United States

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Published On :: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/OES/DAIN/FV/UN/SN/FD/88542 (2019-118): Launching of the First Phase of the Newly Designed Website

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Published On :: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/JS/TM/88584 (2020-003): Selected representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities to receive funding from the Voluntary Trust Fund for participation in the second meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post

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Published On :: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/YX/88707 (2020-021): Decision 14/23, Financial Mechanism: Assessment of Funding Needs for the Implementation of the Convention and its Protocols for the Eighth Replenishment Period (July 2022 to June 2026) of the Trust Fun

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Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Over 1000 delegates from more than 140 countries started negotiations today at FAO headquarters, Rome on the zero draft of a landmark post-2020 global biodiversity framework and targets for nature to 2030.

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Published On :: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Governments advance in the preparation of a New UN Biodiversity Framework; Negotiations in Rome demonstrate engagement across government and society

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Published On :: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Joining the global celebration of the United Nations World Wildlife Day, representatives of UN Member States, UN System organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, rural communities and youth gathered at the UN Headquarters

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Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Due to the evolving nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has moved to hold many meetings virtually and has postponed others.

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD News: Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) permanent subsidiary bodies originally scheduled for May 2020 and then rescheduled for August/September 2020 will now take place in August 2020.

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Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/BB/ML/GD/88853 (2020-036): Launching of the UNEP Strategy for Private Sector Engagement

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Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

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Modular forms invariant under non-split Cartan subgroups

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:09 EDT

Pietro Mercuri and René Schoof
Math. Comp. 89 (2020), 1969-1991.
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Sharp error bounds for Ritz vectors and approximate singular vectors

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:09 EDT

Yuji Nakatsukasa
Math. Comp. 89 (2020), 1843-1866.
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Stability of Semi-Lagrangian schemes of arbitrary odd degree under constant and variable advection speed

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Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:09 EDT

Roberto Ferretti and Michel Mehrenberger
Math. Comp. 89 (2019), 1783-1805.
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Linear and Multilinear Algebra and Function Spaces

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Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 06:00 EDT

A. Bourhim, J. Mashreghi, L. Oubbi and Z. Abdelali, editors. American Mathematical Society | Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, 2020, CONM, volume 750, approx. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4704-4693-2 (print), 978-1-4704-5607-8 (online).

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Algebra and Related Topics, held from July 2–5, 2018, at Mohammed V...

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TripActions moves into travel payments with Liquid launch

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Published On :: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:01:00 GMT

The fast-growing travel tech startup is moving into payments after securing $500 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank, Goldman Sachs and Comerica Bank

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