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he Eye on Biodiversity SI was formed during the 2011 Eye on Earth Summit and has grown to a membership of over 60 stakeholders with a broad geographic representation and good gender balance. All other SI facilitators and several stakeholders also have membership to increase cross-SI opportunities. Recently, Jane Glavan, AGEDI Partnership Manager ( [email protected]) was assigned to be the new facilitator of the SI. There is no consensus chair within the SI as it is decided upon on a rotating basis. This provides the community equal opportunity to help support and guide the direction of the monthly meeting so that it best addresses the community needs. The SI meets via Webex on a monthly basis based on the best availability of the community. A shared community area was created on Basecamp where the community can share documents, discussions as well as post potential funding opportunities and conference presentations. The Portal is kept up to date by the community as well as by the SI Facilitator. KEEPING AN EYE ON YOUR SI T EYE ON BIODIVERSITY SI AT A GLANCE Formation Eye on Earth Summit 2011 Membership 60 international stakeholders Chair Chair appointed on a rotating basis Steering Committee under development Meetings via Webex each month, subject to availability of the community (Basecamp portal created for sharing of documents, discussions, funding opportunities and conference presentations) Facilitator Jane Glavan, AGEDI Partnership Manager - [email protected] STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE MISSION STATEMENT Eye on Biodiversity focuses on the incentives required to further motivate people, government agencies and organizations to share their information and data on biodiversity, particularly with regard to Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration 1 and acknowledges Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2 . The incentives for data sharing suggested as part of this initiative are not financial. Instead they focus on sustainable measures such as acknowledgement of data sources, tools for simplifying data sharing, more effective achievement of desired conservation outcomes (such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets 3 ), and a broad movement to both reward and mandate sharing of biodiversity- related information and data. AN UPDATE: OCTOBER 2014 1. See http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?documentid=78&articleid=1163 2. calls on its Parties to: respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices. 3. See http://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/
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he Eye on Biodiversity SI was formed during the 2011 Eye on Earth Summit and has grown to a membership of over 60 stakeholders with a broad geographic representation and good gender balance. All other SI facilitators and several stakeholders also have membership to
increase cross-SI opportunities.
Recently, Jane Glavan, AGEDI Partnership Manager ([email protected]) was assigned to be the new facilitator of the SI. There is no consensus chair within the SI as it is decided upon on a rotating basis. This provides the community equal opportunity to help support and guide the direction of the monthly meeting so that it best addresses the community needs.
The SI meets via Webex on a monthly basis based on the best availability of the community. A shared community area was created on Basecamp where the community can share documents, discussions as well as post potential funding opportunities and conference presentations. The Portal is kept up to date by the community as well as by the SI Facilitator.
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EYE ON BIODIVERSITY SI AT A GLANCE
Formation Eye on Earth Summit 2011
Membership 60 international stakeholders
Chair Chair appointed on a rotating basis
Steering Committee under development
Meetings via Webex each month, subject to availability of the community(Basecamp portal created for sharing of documents, discussions, funding opportunities and conference presentations)
Facilitator Jane Glavan, AGEDI Partnership Manager - [email protected]
STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
MISSION STATEMENT
Eye on Biodiversity focuses on the incentives required to further motivate people, government agencies and organizations to share their information and data on biodiversity, particularly with regard to Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration1 and acknowledges Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity2. The incentives for data sharing suggested as part of this initiative are not financial. Instead they focus on sustainable measures such as acknowledgement of data sources, tools for simplifying data sharing, more effective achievement of desired conservation outcomes (such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets3), and a broad movement to both reward and mandate sharing of biodiversity-related information and data.
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1. See http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?documentid=78&articleid=1163
2. calls on its Parties to: respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices.
3. See http://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/
CURRENT PROJECTS
There is one current pilot projects funded through the support of AGEDI:
1. Unlocking biodiversity Data from Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), This project seeks to render primary biodiversity data obtained during EIAs more accessible for subsequent uses. Adding such data to publicly-accessible datasets will benefit biodiversity science, conservation and future decisions based on environmental impact assessment. This project will establish a framework for capturing EIA-related primary biodiversity data in the Arabian Gulf region, and develop tools for promoting good practice on data publication from impact assessments throughout the world. The project will build on work carried out by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) in collaboration with project partners to develop an EIA-related biodiversity data publishing framework. Previous projects under the SI include the Local, National, and Regional Biodiversity Systematic Conservation Planning Project, which completed in 2013.
UPCOMING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS
Planning is being undertaken to finalize the location and timing of the Unlocking Biodiversity Data from EIAs project capacity building workshop. The community is also looking at holding side meetings where there is a natural convergence of the community, such as the World’s Park Congress, November 2014.
FUTURE PROJECT PLANS
The community is currently looking towards creating its SI vision statement, direct feedback mechanisms into the summit, as well as coming together as a community to prepare both project fiches and concept notes.
CROSS SI OPPORTUNITIES
There are critical links with the foundational SIs as they support direct areas which closely touch upon challenges we face such as incentivizing data sharing and knowledge dissemination. There are also obvious touch points with each of the other SIs, including Oceans and Blue Carbon, CSR and Disaster Management.
KEEPING AN EYE ON YOUR SI
