Whereas many Canadians follow the international climate change negotiating process, few track parallel efforts to protect biological diversity. Not many are familiar with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) or realize that 2010 is the year when Canada and other countries that ratified the CBD were to have realized their modest target of achieving a "significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss." Even fewer know that 2010 is the International Year of Biological Diversity and that a Copenhagen-like meeting of world leaders is set for October in Nagoya, Japan.
To raise awareness about progress — or lack of it — on biodiversity, Alternatives Journal is dedicating an issue to the topic. We are looking for articles of both a political and a scientific nature. We invite you to submit proposals that deal with issues such as the following:
- How is Canada, or other parts of the world, doing with regard to their efforts to reduce loss of biological diversity?
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What is the state of Canada’s and/or the world’s biodiversity?
- Is the Convention on Biological Diversity succeeding?
- What are the latest (or suggested) tools and strategies for protecting biological diversity?
- What role do business/government/NGOs play in protecting biological diversity?
- Why has the CBD taken a back seat to the Kyoto Protocol?
- What are you doing to recognize the International Year of Biological Diversity?
