"Local Action for Biodiversity Cities & Biodiversity Case Series"

The “Local Action for Biodiversity Cities & Biodiversity Case Series” was compiled on the occasion of the Mayors Conference Local Action for Biodiversity (26-28 May 2008), held in parallel to the 9th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in May 2008 in Bonn, Germany.

Initiated and co-funded by UNEP’s Urban Environmental Unit, the text for these case studies was compiled and edited by ICLEI’s Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) project team in the ICLEI Africa Office in Cape Town, South Africa, with support of ICLEI’s International Training Centre, Freiburg, Germany. Generous support was provided by Countdown 2010, the CBD Secretariat and the cities themselves. Each of the cities selected to feature in this series has demonstrated outstanding activities at the local level as well as strong commitment to biodiversity in the international arena. Many of these cities are also participating in ICLEI’s pilot project “Local Action for Biodiversity”, several have signed the Countdown 2010 Declaration and some also host other CBD activities.

ICLEI aims to continue and expand this series, contingent upon availability of resources for research, writing and production.

The cases are downloadable from the LAB website here,

from the ICLEI website,

or from the UNEP website.