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CoP9

WWF Position Papers

WWF & Indigenous peoples

The 9th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Bonn, Germany - 19-30 May, 2008

COP 9 will be the final meeting of its kind prior to 2010, the deadline that the signatories to the convention have set to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss.

The global community is not on track to meet the 2010 target because the convention is not being effectively implemented.

Biodiversity underpins the health of the planet and has a direct relationship with human wellbeing providing food security, water, medicine as well as mitigating climate change and natural disasters. Therefore governments need to make the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity a political priority.

WWF is calling for engagement of government at all levels and across all sectors to protect biodiversity and maintain the health of our planet.

WWF wants COP 9 to make progress in six key areas:
  • Mainstreaming of biodiversity through joint action by relevant ministries;
  • Establishment of effective Protected Area systems;
  • Mobilizing Financial Resources;
  • Halting deforestation and forest degradation by 2020;
  • Integration of Biodiversity into action to combat and adapt to climate change; and
  • Fair and equitable sharing of benfits from the exploitation of biodiversity for medicine and agriculture.

Information & Discussion Papers for COP 9

2010 & Beyond: Rising to the Biodiversity challenge (PDF 1.5 MB)
Future generations face hunger, thirst, disease and disaster if we carry on trashing the environment. This report contains the latest Living Planet Index - the internationally agreed way to measure progress towards the global target of reducing biodiversity loss by 2010 - and which reveals a continuing decline in biodiversity.

Public Funds to Protected Areas (PDF 700KB) by Stephanie Mansourian & Nigel Dudley
Analysis of government funding for protected areas and GDP. The results indicate that in general public funding to protected areas needs to be substantially increased if Parties are to meet their CBD obligations.

Is Europe fulfilling its CBD obligations? (PDF 872 KB)
An analysis of how the Natura 2000 Network meets the requirements of the CBD's Programme of Work on Protected Areas.

Scorecard on the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PDF 1.70 MB)
A tool for tracking national progress in implementation of the CBD's Programme of Work on Protected Areas.
A Review of Innovative International Financial Mechanisms for Biodiversity Conservation (PDF 1.58 MB) by Pablo Gutman and Sarah Davidson
This report looks at the international financing of developed countries protected areas, as a contribution to ongoing CBD discussions on how to increase flows of international funds to biodiversity conservation.

The 2010 Biodiversity Target in EU Development Cooperation (PDF, 134 KB) By Sally Nicholson
The aim of this paper is to provide a brief analysis of the progress made by the EU towards the 2010 Biodiversity Target in its external development co-operation policy with a focus on policies and programmes for Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and Asia and Latin America (ALA) countries.

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