ECOs are the invaluable on-the-ground newsletter reports from key CBD Alliance members attending CBD-related meetings and events. They offer the clearest views of the Convention's evolution from various civil society perspectives and should be required reading for biodiversity activists.
The most relevant to date for COP10 preparations:
The Post-COP9 Wrap-up ECO reviews progress or the lack there of in many areas at the Bonn, Germany COP9 meeting in 2008 - Download here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Are we missing the 2010 Target?
Ashish Kothari - Kalpavrikslh - pages1-3
ABS, COP 9 and the future
Francois Meienberg - Berne Declaration - page 4
Biodiversity yes - but not with our money
Stefan Krug - Greenpeace - page 5
Bursts of Life into the CBD
Ana Filippini - World Rainforest Movement - pages 6-7
COP9 Sequesters Ocean-Dumping
etc group - page 7
High Seas Reserves
Nathalie Rey - Greenpeace - page 8
Indigenous Peoples and COP 9
Ibrahim Njobdi - IIFB Media Team - page 9
Agrofuels at COP9
Helena Paul - econexus - page 10
The Ecosystem Approach
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari and Caroline de Jong
- Forest Peoples Programme & Joji Carino Tebtebba - page 11
COP 9 Making business instead of policy
Simone Loveta - Global Forest Coalition - pages 12-13
Agricultural Biodiversity
La Via Campesina - page 13
GE Trees: CBD Fails
Anne Peterrnann & Orin Langelle
- Global Justice Ecology Project - pages 14-15
On COP9 and Protected Areas
Maurizio Farhan Ferrari
- Forest Peoples Programme - pages 16-17
COP-9 and Invasive Alien Species
Stas Burgiel - Global Invasive Species
Programme (GISP) - page 17
Agricultural biodiversity @ COP 9
Patrick Mulvany - Practical Action - page 18
Selling our Mother - a final insult?
Wally Menne - Timberwatch Coalition - page 19
Earlier ECOs of Interest
