Convention on Biological Diversity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Biological_Diversity

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1972, the Convention on Biological Diversity treaty was produced.

By 2007 the treaty had been ratified by 190 nations.

Data assembled by thousands of scientists and organizations working with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) "provide insight into how much has gone missing in recent years owing to human impacts and help gauge the level of ongoing threats."

So far only about 50,000 species out of millions have been assessed.

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See also

• 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership
• 2010 Biodiversity Target
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)
• Biodiversity banking
• Biological Diversity Act, 2002
• Biopiracy
• Bioprospecting
• Biosphere Reserve
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
• Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat
• Ecotourism
• Endangered species
• Endangered Species Recovery Plan
• Environmental agreements
• Environmental Modification Convention, another ban on weather modification / climate engineering.
• Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
• Green Development Initiative (GDI)
• Holocene extinction
• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
• International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups
• International Organization for Biological Control
• International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
• International Year of Biodiversity
• Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
• Red Data Book of Singapore
• Red Data Book of the Russian Federation
• Satoyama
• Sustainable forest management
• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre