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Factsheets

A number of factsheets have been produced to set out in brief the main issues in relation to biodiversity management and local governments. They are intended to be a user-friendly tool which summarises the global framework, analyses some of the main challenges faced by local authorities and highlights some successes stories. They set the framework for the discussion and provide key information on critical topics.

These factsheets will be updated regularly and more will be added. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any suggestion for a topic related to biodiversity management at the local level which you would like to see addressed.

• Partnerships and networks for urban biodievrsity

• Halting biodiversity loss: a global mandate to act

• Local authorities for biodiversity managment

• Regions as drivers of biodiversity managment

• Involving citizens in biodiversity managment

• Biodiversity and climate change

• Managing green spaces for urban biodiversity

Cities Case descriptions

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 and support the Countdown 2010 Secretariat, 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.

The cases are downloadable from the LAB website
or from the UNEP website