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Carolina Hazin - who has written 13 posts on BirdLife Community.

I am Global Biodiversity Policy Coordinator at BirdLife Internatiional. I support the BirdLife Partnership to develop effective policy advocacy work, including leading BirdLife’s well-established engagement with the Convention on Biological Diversity. Before Birdlife I was at UNESCO and before that for many years at the Brazilian Ministry of Environment.

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CBD Day: Convention on Biological Diversity or Clean Bathing and Drinking?

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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CBD Day: Convention on Biological Diversity or Clean Bathing and Drinking?

May 22 is the International Day of Biological Diversity. This year the Convention on Biological Diversity has chosen the theme Water and Biodiversity, to coincide with the United Nations designation of 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation.

Opposing views and progress: mid-conference update from COP11

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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Opposing views and progress: mid-conference update from COP11

News directly from the hard-working BirdLife policy team in Hyderabad, India, where negotiations of the CBD are in their final week…

Policy briefing on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity

Saturday, September 29, 2012

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Here you can access BirdLife’s Policy briefing on Marine and coastal biodiversity: Identification of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas

Latest news from BirdLife delegates at Rio+20

Friday, June 22, 2012

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Latest news from BirdLife delegates at Rio+20

Direct from the RIO+20 conference Carolina Hazin shares her experiences and insight.

Commitment of missing Head of States to RIO+20 questioned

Thursday, June 21, 2012

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What Heads of States or ministers have to say to the world about sustainability and the committment of some of their fellow leaders.

Civil Society influence on RIO+20 minimal as Governments fail to listen

Thursday, June 21, 2012

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There was much applause for the representative of NGO during his speech at the RIO+20 opening plenary – “don’t waste your power! Instead of attending to the narrow interests of individual governments, leaders should be inspired to change the world”

NGO statement given to Governments at RIO+20 plenary

Thursday, June 21, 2012

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Read Wael Hmaidan’s statement on behalf of civil society and NGOs attending RIO+20

Sign ‘the future we don’t want’ e-petition

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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RIO+20 negotiations are not going to give the future than many people and the planet needs. An e-petition has been started ’the future we don’ t want‘. They will present it to heads of states at the begining of the meeting. Please sign the petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/the-future-we-dont-want/

It’s all about economics at Rio

Monday, June 18, 2012

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What’s at stake is who will pay the bill, and who will sustain a country to adopt changes in favour of sustainable development.

Whose interests are being addressed at RIO+20?

Saturday, June 16, 2012

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Whose interests are being addressed at RIO+20?

At the end of each day the United Nations have created an open space for discussion among civil society and givernments on the RIO+20 agenda. Apparently 70% of the Rio+20 outcome document is from civil society input, but how much of it will be left after negotiations?

‘We can’t fail!’ – but still to agree position

Thursday, June 14, 2012

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‘We can’t fail!’ – but still to agree position

Sha Zukang, Secretary-General of Rio+20, opened the 3rd Preparatory Meeting to the Rio Conference with a personal plea – “we can’t fail!”

What future do you want?

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

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Thousands of people are flying to RIO+20, showing so many people’s committment to discuss the future we want.

Experts meet in Montreal to ‘talk biodiversity’

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Delegates from 193 countries are preparing recommendations for the next Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of Parties (COP) in October in India.