Better protection for whales, sharks and raptors
The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals was successfully concluded in Bergen/Norway on 25 November. [
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World Heritage Certificate for "Ancient Beech Forests of Germany"
On 16 November Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen was presented with a certificate recognizing the inscription of German beech forests on the UNESCO World Heritage List. [ more]
UN Decade on Biodiversity 2011-2020
On 8 November Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen officially opened the UN Decade on Biodiversity, responding to a call from the UN General Assembly to halt the loss of biological diversity in the decade between 2011 and 2020. [ more]
More safety for offshore drilling
On 27 October the European Commission presented its proposal for a regulation on safety of offshore oil and gas prospection, operation and production activities, thus taking concrete steps resulting from the Deep Water Horizon platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. [ more]
"Bonn Challenge" calls for global restoration of forests
On the invitation of Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and IUCN president Ashok Khosla, ministers and high-level representatives of industry and civil society met on September 2 to discuss the global restoration of forests.
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Hamburg's National Park is part of the Wadden Sea
At its 35th meeting in Paris the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to extend the existing German-Dutch World Heritage area "Wadden Sea" to include Hamburg's National Park. [ more]
Germany signs UN Protocol against Biopiracy
On 23 June 2011 Germany signed the Nagoya Protocol in New York. The Protocol supplements the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). For Germany this is the first important step towards implementing this new instrument of international law. [ more]
Declaration of EU environment ministers on the new EU biodiversity strategy
On 3 May 2011 the EU Commission submitted a proposal for the future biodiversity policy of the EU. Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and many of his EU colleagues signed a Declaration on the Strategy. [ more]
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