Organisers & Endorsers
The Mayors Conference - Local Action for Biodiversity, a parallel event of the COP-9 of the UN-CBD, took place with many thanks to the collaboration of the organisers, endorsers and further cooperating partners.
Organisers
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. More than 630 cities, towns, counties, and their associations worldwide comprise ICLEI's growing membership. ICLEI works with these and hundreds of other local governments through international performance-based, results-oriented campaigns and programs.
On request of members, in 2006 ICLEI started a biodiversity initiative with "Local Action for Biodiversity" as pilot project.
Bonn UN-City
Bonn has managed over the past decade to shape for itself a new profile as the German City of the United Nations and a centre of international dialogue on key issues of the future. Since July 1996, Bonn is entitled to call itself a UN City. The city is turning into a network hub for sustainable and human development.
Service Agency, InWent
The Service Agency Communities in One World has been designed to be a contact point and service provider for municipal administrations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); institutions of public affairs; the media and decision-makers; and voluntary activists and interested individuals.
Endorsers
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
The Federal Environment Ministry's responsibility includes Nature Conservation and Biodiversity. The BMU acts as host of the COP-9. The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) is a subordinated agency of the ministry.
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
The BfN, located in Bonn, is the central scientific authority at the federal level for national and international nature conservation and landscape management.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
The GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions. GTZ's corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis. GTZ acts on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD)
The CBD is an international treaty that was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It links traditional conservation efforts to the economic goal of using biological resources sustainably.
The Secretariat of the CBD was established to support the goals of the Convention. Its principal functions are to prepare for, and service, meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COP) and other subsidiary bodies of the Convention, and to coordinate with other relevant international bodies.
The Secretariat is institutionally linked to the United Nations Environment Programme and is located in Montreal, Canada since 1996.
IUCN and Countdown 2010
Countdown 2010 is a powerful network of active partners working together towards the 2010 biodiversity target: Halting biodiversity loss by 2010. The secretariat – hosted by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) – facilitates and encourages action, promotes the importance of the 2010 biodiversity target and assesses progress towards 2010.
World Mayors Council on Climate Change
The World Mayors Council on Climate Change has been initiated by Mayor Yorikane Masumoto, City of Kyoto, Japan, following the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol in February 2005. The Council promotes climate protection policies at the local level. At its last meeting in February 2002, the WMCCC added Biodiversity into its working fields.
UNEP
UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNEP is an advocate, educator, catalyst and facilitator, promoting the wise use of the planet’s natural assets for sustainable development.
UNEP administers the CBD.
UN-Habitat
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
UNDP
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. They are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. For this specialized United Nations
agency, it is not enough to build classrooms in devastated countries or to publish
scientific breakthroughs. Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and
Communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal: to build peace in the
minds of men.
CLRAE
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (Congress website) was established in 1994 as a consultative body to replace the former Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe. It works on the basis of Statutory Resolution (2000) 1 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.