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Final Joint Statement to Working Group 2 at SBSTTA 14

This is the Final Joint Statement to Working Group 2 at SBSTTA 14 on the CBD’s Proposed Mission, Strategic Goals and Targets for the Post 2010 Framework, which is Agenda Item UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/14/10, on 17thMay 2010, Nairobi, Kenya and was delivered by Muhtari Aminu-Kano, BirdLife International.


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This was an intervention on behalf of:

 

1.      Birdlife International

2.      BGCI -- Botanic Gardens Conservation International

3.      Conservation International

4.      EcoNexus

5.      Ecoropa

6.      Forest People’s Programme

7.      Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina

8.      Global Invasive Species Programme

9.      Greenpeace

10. Plantlife International

11. TRAFFIC

12. VAS – Green Environment Society (federation of 50 organisations in Italy)

13. Wetlands International

14. WWF

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