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Convention on
Biodiversity
Objectives, Programs, Compliance by the state of Kuwait
Done by : Nasser Alduwaisan
Biological diversity
 Generally refers to the variety and variability within
species, between species and between ecosystems .
 There are three types of biodiversity:
1- Genetic diversity
 Each individual species possesses genes which are the
source of its own unique features.
 Loss of genetic diversity is often associated with in-
breeding and reduction in reproductive fitness.
2- Species diversity
 The total number of different species in a space, locally, in region, in
a country or in the world and various types of ecosystems.
 Each species has a role in the ecosystem, An absence of one specie
will affect other species.
3- Ecosystem diversity
 The combination of living things of communities with the physical
environment around them is called an ecosystem.
 There are variety types of ecosystems such as deserts, mountains,
oceans… etc.
 Each ecosystem is linked to the other by what we call the earth
cycle.
Human effect on biodiversity
 There is no doubt that human civilization has had a negative impact on
biodiversity.
 The world conservation Union (IUCN) now includes more than 16,000
entries in its red lists of threatened species.
 The IUCN estimated that extinction rates are now over than 50 times
higher than previous rate calculated from the fossil record (Baillie et
al, 2004).
 The Earth's biological resources are vital to humanity's economic and
social development, the threat to species and ecosystems has never
been so great as it is today.
 The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) started to take this
problem into consideration since 1988.
History of the Convention on biodiversity
(CBD)
The (UNEP) convened the Ad Hoc Working
Group of Experts on Biological Diversity
1988
• to explore the need for an international
convention on biological diversity
the Ad Hoc group of the technical and
legal experts
1989
• prepare an international legal instrument for the conservation and
sustainable use of biological diversity.
• The main objective for the technical and legal Experts are:
•Find a way to share costs and benefits between developed and
developing countries.
•Ways and means to support innovation by local people.
1991
• the Ad Hoc Working Group had become known as the Intergovernmental
Negotiating Committee
Its work culminated
22/May/1992
• the Nairobi Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the
Convention on Biological Diversity
The convention was opened for signature
5/JUN/1992
• at the united nations conference on environment and development (the
Rio “Earth Summit”)
 The convention entered into force on 29 December 1993
 Received 168 signatures
 Since then, many countries were working toward saving the
biodiversity based on the convention.
About the Convention on biodiversity
 The convention text contains
 42 articles
 3 annexes
 1 main body (Conference of the parties COP)
o the governing body of the Convention, and advances implementation
of the Convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic
meetings.
 a Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and
Technological Advice (SBSTTA)
o It provides the (COP) timely advice relating to the
implementation of the Convention.
 and other subsidiary bodies have been established by the
COP to deal with specific issues as they arise such as:
 Working group on protected area
 Two protocols have been established later to support and
help the convention to reach its objectives.
 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafe.
 Entered into force on the 11th September 2003.
 The Nagoya Protocol on Access & Benefit sharing.
 Entered into force in 2011
CBD Objectives
1- The conservation on biodiversity.
Biodiversity Conservation
Ex-situ
Artificial
seed bank,
gene bank
Zoological
gardene,
Aquariam
In-situ
Natural
wild life
sanctuary
National Park
Biosohere
Reserve
2- The sustainable use of the components of biodiversity
 Integrate consideration of the conservation and sustainable use
of biological resources into national decision making
 Encourage cooperation between governmental authorities and
its private sector in developing methods for sustainable use of
biological resources.
3- The fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out
of the utilization of genetic resources.
 An appropriate access to genetic resources
 An appropriate transfer of relevant technologies
 An appropriate funding, thereby contributing to the
conservation of biological diversity.
Implementation mechanisms for the
convention on biodiversity
 the Convention on General Measures states that
each Contracting Party shall, in accordance with its
particular conditions and capabilities do the
following:
 Develop national strategies, plans or programs for the
conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
 Integrate, as far as possible and as appropriate, the
conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
into relevant sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programs
and policies.
Kuwait and the Convention on
biodiversity
 Why was it important for Kuwait to join the convention on
biodiversity?
 threats on biodiversity were increasing rapidly because of :
 the Iraqi invasion (oil pollution of the marine environment).
 lack of conservation areas.
 lack of enforced environmental regulations.
 The state of Kuwait signed the convention on biological
diversity at the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro,
1992, and became a party in 2002.
 To which extent Kuwait implemented the strategy and the
national plan of action for biodiversity?
The Environment Public Authority of Kuwait was formed in
1995 and (the conservation on biodiversity administration) in
it is the national focal point in Kuwait for the convention on
biodiversity.
 The 4th National report was made in 2011
 that’s one of the convention implementation mechanisms, the
report shows the status of biodiversity in Kuwait, and the plans to
conserve it until 2010.
 The 5th National report was made in 2014
 cover the plan from 2011-2020, and it stated the procedures that
have been made after the submission of the 4th national report.
 Coordination between the relevant authorities in the state was
made to implement the provisions of the convention by
following actions:
 Celebrate the international day of biodiversity on 22/5 to raise public awareness
of the importance of the biodiversity.
 Monitoring marine biodiversity:
 Kuwait's marine and littoral ecosystems contain the bulk of the
nation's biodiversity heritage
 Over than 250 species of invertebrates have been recorded from
the intertidal zone
 68 species of zooplankton
 56 phytoplankton
Paracalanus crassirostris
Cyanobacteria
 105 species of marine plants
 over than 465 species of fish are known,124 of which are
associated with coral reefs
 there are also a number of other species, and they all are
of high scientific interest because of their role in ecosystem
dynamics.
 Monitoring terrestrial biodiversity:
 386 recorded species of plants in 55 families most of them
are annual plants utilized for grazing
 also 350 types of birds,18 of them are resident
 40 types of reptiles
 28 types of mammals 10 of them are endangered such as
the fennec fox, the red fox, the honey badger, the Indian
grey mongoose and the wild cat.
Aquila nipalensis Saxicola rubicola
Sterna aurantia
fennec fox
Vulpes zerda
honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Indian grey mangoose
Herpestes edwardsii
Endangered species in Kuwait
 Increasing protected areas coverage from 2.1% in
2005 to 26% in 2016
 Many governmental and non-governmental organizations in Kuwait
are integrated in activities related to biodiversity to manage,
conserve, and work on biodiversity researches in Kuwait such as:
 The environmental public authority (EPA).
 The Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs & Fish Resources
(PAAFR).
 Kuwait University (KU) and
 Kuwiat Institute for Scientific Research (KISR).
While other non-governmental organizations and public benefit
societies are also active toward managing and conserve the
biodiversity.
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conventiononbiodiversity-170511162521.pdf

  • 1. Convention on Biodiversity Objectives, Programs, Compliance by the state of Kuwait Done by : Nasser Alduwaisan
  • 2. Biological diversity  Generally refers to the variety and variability within species, between species and between ecosystems .  There are three types of biodiversity:
  • 3. 1- Genetic diversity  Each individual species possesses genes which are the source of its own unique features.  Loss of genetic diversity is often associated with in- breeding and reduction in reproductive fitness.
  • 4. 2- Species diversity  The total number of different species in a space, locally, in region, in a country or in the world and various types of ecosystems.  Each species has a role in the ecosystem, An absence of one specie will affect other species.
  • 5. 3- Ecosystem diversity  The combination of living things of communities with the physical environment around them is called an ecosystem.  There are variety types of ecosystems such as deserts, mountains, oceans… etc.  Each ecosystem is linked to the other by what we call the earth cycle.
  • 6.
  • 7. Human effect on biodiversity  There is no doubt that human civilization has had a negative impact on biodiversity.
  • 8.  The world conservation Union (IUCN) now includes more than 16,000 entries in its red lists of threatened species.  The IUCN estimated that extinction rates are now over than 50 times higher than previous rate calculated from the fossil record (Baillie et al, 2004).
  • 9.  The Earth's biological resources are vital to humanity's economic and social development, the threat to species and ecosystems has never been so great as it is today.  The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) started to take this problem into consideration since 1988.
  • 10. History of the Convention on biodiversity (CBD) The (UNEP) convened the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on Biological Diversity 1988 • to explore the need for an international convention on biological diversity
  • 11. the Ad Hoc group of the technical and legal experts 1989 • prepare an international legal instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. • The main objective for the technical and legal Experts are: •Find a way to share costs and benefits between developed and developing countries. •Ways and means to support innovation by local people.
  • 12. 1991 • the Ad Hoc Working Group had become known as the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Its work culminated 22/May/1992 • the Nairobi Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity The convention was opened for signature 5/JUN/1992 • at the united nations conference on environment and development (the Rio “Earth Summit”)
  • 13.  The convention entered into force on 29 December 1993  Received 168 signatures  Since then, many countries were working toward saving the biodiversity based on the convention.
  • 14.
  • 15. About the Convention on biodiversity  The convention text contains  42 articles  3 annexes  1 main body (Conference of the parties COP) o the governing body of the Convention, and advances implementation of the Convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic meetings.
  • 16.  a Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) o It provides the (COP) timely advice relating to the implementation of the Convention.  and other subsidiary bodies have been established by the COP to deal with specific issues as they arise such as:  Working group on protected area
  • 17.  Two protocols have been established later to support and help the convention to reach its objectives.  The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafe.  Entered into force on the 11th September 2003.  The Nagoya Protocol on Access & Benefit sharing.  Entered into force in 2011
  • 18. CBD Objectives 1- The conservation on biodiversity. Biodiversity Conservation Ex-situ Artificial seed bank, gene bank Zoological gardene, Aquariam In-situ Natural wild life sanctuary National Park Biosohere Reserve
  • 19. 2- The sustainable use of the components of biodiversity  Integrate consideration of the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources into national decision making  Encourage cooperation between governmental authorities and its private sector in developing methods for sustainable use of biological resources.
  • 20. 3- The fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.  An appropriate access to genetic resources  An appropriate transfer of relevant technologies  An appropriate funding, thereby contributing to the conservation of biological diversity.
  • 21. Implementation mechanisms for the convention on biodiversity  the Convention on General Measures states that each Contracting Party shall, in accordance with its particular conditions and capabilities do the following:
  • 22.  Develop national strategies, plans or programs for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.  Integrate, as far as possible and as appropriate, the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity into relevant sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programs and policies.
  • 23. Kuwait and the Convention on biodiversity  Why was it important for Kuwait to join the convention on biodiversity?  threats on biodiversity were increasing rapidly because of :  the Iraqi invasion (oil pollution of the marine environment).  lack of conservation areas.  lack of enforced environmental regulations.
  • 24.  The state of Kuwait signed the convention on biological diversity at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992, and became a party in 2002.
  • 25.  To which extent Kuwait implemented the strategy and the national plan of action for biodiversity? The Environment Public Authority of Kuwait was formed in 1995 and (the conservation on biodiversity administration) in it is the national focal point in Kuwait for the convention on biodiversity.
  • 26.  The 4th National report was made in 2011  that’s one of the convention implementation mechanisms, the report shows the status of biodiversity in Kuwait, and the plans to conserve it until 2010.  The 5th National report was made in 2014  cover the plan from 2011-2020, and it stated the procedures that have been made after the submission of the 4th national report.
  • 27.  Coordination between the relevant authorities in the state was made to implement the provisions of the convention by following actions:  Celebrate the international day of biodiversity on 22/5 to raise public awareness of the importance of the biodiversity.
  • 28.  Monitoring marine biodiversity:  Kuwait's marine and littoral ecosystems contain the bulk of the nation's biodiversity heritage  Over than 250 species of invertebrates have been recorded from the intertidal zone  68 species of zooplankton  56 phytoplankton Paracalanus crassirostris Cyanobacteria
  • 29.  105 species of marine plants  over than 465 species of fish are known,124 of which are associated with coral reefs  there are also a number of other species, and they all are of high scientific interest because of their role in ecosystem dynamics.
  • 30.  Monitoring terrestrial biodiversity:  386 recorded species of plants in 55 families most of them are annual plants utilized for grazing  also 350 types of birds,18 of them are resident  40 types of reptiles  28 types of mammals 10 of them are endangered such as the fennec fox, the red fox, the honey badger, the Indian grey mongoose and the wild cat.
  • 31. Aquila nipalensis Saxicola rubicola Sterna aurantia
  • 32. fennec fox Vulpes zerda honey badger Mellivora capensis Indian grey mangoose Herpestes edwardsii Endangered species in Kuwait
  • 33.  Increasing protected areas coverage from 2.1% in 2005 to 26% in 2016
  • 34.  Many governmental and non-governmental organizations in Kuwait are integrated in activities related to biodiversity to manage, conserve, and work on biodiversity researches in Kuwait such as:  The environmental public authority (EPA).  The Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs & Fish Resources (PAAFR).  Kuwait University (KU) and  Kuwiat Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). While other non-governmental organizations and public benefit societies are also active toward managing and conserve the biodiversity.