Check here for daily blogs from IUCN experts.
Event diary
Inside track
Throughout the conference, IUCN's delegation will be giving the inside view on what's happening and an insight into the key issues at stake.
Day Ten
I’ve been dreaming that I’m in plenary at night. A bit of a shame really, as I would rather be dreaming about the graceful masai giraffe’s in Nairobi National Park or the baby hyrax hopping around the grounds of the IUCN regional office. Oh well, writes Josephine Langley, Network Coordinator from IUCN's Biodiversity Conservation Group. …
21 May 2010 | News story
Day Nine
The delegates and support teams are beginning to look a little weary as the many different topics are finalized – agricultural biodiversity, biofuels and biodiversity, the Global Strategy on Plant Conservation, invasive species and global targets for the ten years after this year – the Year of Biodiversity, writes Geoffrey Howard, Global Invasive Species Coordinator from IUCN’s East and Southern Africa office. …
20 May 2010 | News story
Day Eight
How will we transition to a world that is not dependent on fossil fuels? Biofuels – liquid fuels made from plants – have been presented as an alternative to fossil fuels for transport, writes Andrea Athanas, Senior Programme Officer from IUCN’s Business and Biodiversity Programme. …
19 May 2010 | News story
Day Seven
The meeting here in Nairobi launched into its second week today, reinvigorated after a break at the weekend. Many delegates had made good use of the time to head out of Nairobi and find some real biodiversity and culture in the various national parks and landscapes of Kenya, writes Neville Ash, Head of IUCN’s Ecosystems management Programme. …
18 May 2010 | News story
Day Six
After my first two days here last week I was amazed at the lack of intensity at the meeting despite the crucial nature of what is being discussed. Colour? Grey. Ok so we are supposed to be discussing serious science...maybe that’s why, writes Elizabeth Radford – International Programme Manager from IUCN’s Member Plantlife International. …
17 May 2010 | News story
Day Five
It has been a week since the meeting started and it has been a busy week indeed, with many issues central to South Africa under discussion, writes Hastings Chikoko, Head of IUCN South Africa and Head of Constituency Support and Communications for Eastern and Southern Africa. …
15 May 2010 | News story
Day Four
I arrived in Kenya on Sunday after a 36-hour journey around the world coming from Quito but it was definitely worth it, says Arturo Mora, Programme Officer from IUCN's Regional Office for South America, member of the IUCN delegation at the conference in Nairobi. …
14 May 2010 | Photos
Day Three
Day three and, after the break-neck speed of proceedings for the first couple of days, where we ended up a whole day ahead of schedule, things have dramatically slowed down. We are now into the arduous process of delegates thrashing out the minutiae of the programmes of work under review word by word, bracket by bracket, writes Zoe Wilkinson, IUCN Protected Area Programme officer. …
13 May 2010 | News story
Day Two
In addition to the plenary meetings of the Fourteenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) are so-called ‘side events’ which give organizations the opportunity to further discuss some of the issues that are on the agenda. Dr Emmanuel Mwendera from IUCN’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, reports from an event on ‘Water, biodiversity, ecosystems and sustainable development post-2010’. …
12 May 2010 | News story
Day One
The gloomy, continuing trend of biodiversity loss was prevalent throughout today’s plenary sessions. The reality is that most, if not all nations, did not meet the 2010 targets, writes Nikita Lopoukhine, Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas, after the meeting’s first day. …
10 May 2010 | News story
