It is indeed an honour for me to speak at the first ever high level event on biodiversity of the United Nations General Assembly at its 65th Session.
This now sets the stage for moving biodiversity and the Convention on Biological Diversity to the central place in global environmental discourse and arena, a place that it rightfully deserves, 18 years after the birth of this Convention at the Earth Summit held at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and years after its sister Convention on climate change has been getting all the headlines.
The Convention on Biological Diversity, through its three goals, sets out commitments for maintaining the world's ecological underpinnings, while pursuing economic development. The three objectives - conservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of its components, and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of genetic resources, are complementary and mutually reinforcing. For further information click here.
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