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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international legally binding treaty. The Convention has three main goals:

  1. conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity);
  2. sustainable use of its components; and
  3. fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources

In other words, its objective is to develop national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. It is often seen as the key document regarding sustainable development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Biological_Diversity

As 193 member states will descend on India Oct. 8-19 for high-level talks on Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, talked to IPS' about what's at stake.

Read the full Q&A here: www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/qa-mismatch-between-commitments-and-action-on-biodiversity

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Opening remarks by Braulio Ferreira De Souza Dias, Executive Secretary of the CBD to the eleventh meeting of the COP, Hyderabad, India, 8 October 2012. http://bit.ly/VLhQ9r