In the Asean, the ACB has convened consultations among the AMS and key partners in the region to craft Asean's contribution to the post-2020 global
biodiversity framework.
Co-developed by CBA as part of a focus to support regional businesses across Australia reach their full potential, the prototype enables the creation of tradeable digital tokens ('BioTokens') within an efficient and transparent digital marketplace powered by blockchain, with the 'BioTokens' representing
biodiversity credits for NSW Government's
Biodiversity Offsets Scheme.
She said the youth in ASEAN and around the world has the 'passionate energy, fresh ideas and technological familiarity to make a difference in halting
biodiversity loss'.
Despite having such great
biodiversity with plenty of endemic species, the island is suffering from
biodiversity loss triggered by anthropogenic activities such as urbanisation, tourism -- one of its most important sources of income -- infrastructure, grazing and rural area abandonment.
On the World
Biodiversity Day 2019, he added that it should be kept in minds, adding 'When we plant trees, we start expanding habitat and this has lead to the revival of denuding ecosystem.
Amid these challenges, the 10 Asean member states - Cambodia, Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - with support from the Asean Centre for
Biodiversity, are working at the national and regional levels to ensure that agricultural
biodiversity is protected and maintained in the Asean region.
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Nour Eddin said that the Sudan is among the first countries that have implemented the establishment of a database on
biodiversity and was commended by donors and the project implementers.
The platform is one of BIOFIN Philippines' 21 finance solutions all aimed at narrowing the huge financing gap for the Philippine
Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP) implementation, the country's roadmap to sustainably manage its
biodiversity.
Fortunately, last November, prior to the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP14), participants in the Business and
Biodiversity Forum recognized the 'urgent need for increased collective ambition to halt and reverse
biodiversity loss.'
The report warned that once
biodiversity is lost, plant, animal and microorganism species that are critical to our food systems, cannot be recovered, placing the future of our food under severe threat.
5 sought to address inter-linkages between human health and
biodiversity in the region.