Nordisk workshop: Nordic Biodiversity Beyond 2010 - Challenges and experiences in a global perspective

2010 is approaching, it is time to take stock of Nordic biodiversity, and to look beyond 2010. Have the Nordic countries reached the goal of halting the loss of biodiversity? How can we use our experiences of success and failure to move on? We need to set new targets and develop new tools. About 70 participants from all the nordic countries gathered in Trondheim for two days to provide the necessary insight to start this work.

Conclusions and recommendations (pdf)

The symposiums recommendations will give

• Nordic input to European and global processes leading towards high-level political decisions for setting post 2010 biodiversity targets in the fall of 2010 (to be set by COP10 of the CBD and/or by the United Nations General Assembly).
• Practical follow-up and policy implementation in the Nordic countries and under the Nordic Council of Ministers.

• 2010 is almost here – now what?
  IUCN Consultation: Options for a new vision for Biodiversity (pdf)
  
  

Conference information:

Invitation (pdf)

Workshops:

Terms of reference for the working groups (pdf)

1. Setting new targets beyond 2010 for biodiversity Bo Normander, Senior Adviser, Danish National Environmental Research Institute  (pdf)
2. Setting new targets beyond 2010 for drivers of change Reidar Hindrum, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management (pdf)
3. Main tools for mainstreaming of biodiversity Axel Wenblad, Director General, Swedish Board of Fisheries (pdf)
4. Facilitating local action Stefan Skog, Director for the Environmental Division, The Municipality of Vanda, Finland (pdf)

A Nordic status report on biodiversity
A brief status report on biodiversity in the Nordic countries is now under production. The report is mainly based on the countries national reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). A draft is now available.

State of biodiversity in the Nordic Countries (draft) (pdf)