About Lesson
Y.5. COP 11 Hyderabad
- One of the most important outcomes of the CoP is the commitment of the Parties to double. The international financial flows for Bio Diversity by 2015. This will translate into additional financial flows to the developing countries to the tune of about US $ 30 billion in the next 8 years.
- India has committed US $50 million towards strengthening the institutional mechanism for e Convention on Biodiversity conservation in the country during its presidency of Biodiversity (CBD) called the Hyderabad Pledge.
- The funds will be used to enhance technical and human capabilities at the national and state level mechanisms to attain the CBD objectives India formally took charge of the presidency of CBD from Japan for the next two years on October 8 at the inaugural of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of Parties (CoP 11) to CBD
- India has instituted the UNDP Biodiversity Governance Awards.
- The first such awards were, given during the CoP 11. It is now proposed to institute Rajiv Gandhi International Award for Harnessing Biodiversity For Livelihood.