Consultation on draft National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan billed for today

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, as the national focal point to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), will host a National Stakeholder Consultation on the draft version of Guyana’s Third National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) today at Regency Suites/Hotel, Hadfield Street, from 9:00am.

The objectives of the Consultation are:

* To update on Guyana’s efforts at meeting obligations to the UNCBD.
* To present the revised NBSAP.
* To seek stakeholders’ feedback based on their review of the revised NBSAP.
* To seek stakeholder inputs on the implementation of the NBSAP.

As an obligation to the CBD, parties are required to revise their Action Plans. Previously, this document was called the National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP), however, the current revision includes a strategy. The objective in doing so is to integrate Guyana’s obligations to the CBD into the national development and sectoral planning frameworks through a renewed and participative ‘biodiversity planning’ and strategizing process.
The overall goal of the NBSAP is to promote and achieve the conservation of Guyana’s biodiversity, to use its components in a sustainable way and to encourage the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of Guyana’s biodiversity.

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