The Preparatory Meeting on the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) , entitled “Working together for promoting socio-ecological production landscapes”, was held on 23-24 August 2010 at the Yamanashi Institute of Environmental Science, Yamanashi, Japan. The meeting was held in preparation for the official launch of the International Partnership (or IPSI) at CBD-COP10 in October in Nagoya, Japan. Click here for further details.

The Preparatory Meeting on the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative will continue the discussion pertaining to the establishment of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) through focus on the operational modalities and launch planning, while considering the relevant paragraphs of the SBSTTA recommendation, in order to facilitate the decision process at CBD COP10. Click here for further details.

The Third Meeting of the Working Group on the Review of the Implementation (WGRI3) had been held from 24-28 May 2010 at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, back-to-back with the fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA14). As decided at the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in May 2008, the Working Group would, prepare, for consideration and adoption by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting, a revised and updated Strategic Plan including a revised biodiversity target, as well as a multi-year programme of work for the period 2011–2022, and proposals for the periodicity of meetings after 2010. International Satoyama Initiative held the side event on 24^th May at WGRI3. Click here for further detail.

The fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA14) took place from 10 to 21 May 2010, at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi. On this occasion, Side events to know more about Satoyama Initiative were held on 10^th  and 17^th May. Click here for further details.

Symposium on the Launch of the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (GBO3) and the Japan Biodiversity Outlook (JBO) was held at the United Nations University (UNU) Headquarters in Tokyo on 10 May 2010. This symposium was co-organized by the UNU, the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Environment Programme. Tokyo was one of the 12 places around the world where the launch of GBO3 took place on the same day. The symposium was attended by about 300 people with various backgrounds including researchers, NGOs, the media, private sectors and diplomats, making this event a good occasion for the discussion on mainstreaming biodiversity into different sectors of the society. Click here for an overview of the symposium and to download meeting materials including presentations.