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This information paper outlines the priorities for business engagement in the CBD’s agenda post-2010. Furthermore, it is a call for the business and conservation communities (communities which overlap in many important areas) to devise a framework for collaboration that enhances conservation outcomes and ensures sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing in the next decade.

This paper describes the Satoyama Initiative, which has been promoted by the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan and United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies for discussion at CBD COP10. It highlights linkages and potential contributions of IUCN’s work to this initiative.

This paper describes the Satoyama Initiative, which has been promoted by the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan and United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies for discussion at CBD COP10. It highlights linkages and potential contributions of IUCN’s work to this initiative.

It is essential that Parties and other stakeholders have the means to achieve the Strategic Plan, yet there is a persistent and critical shortage of financial resources to implement the Convention. IUCN believes that it is both necessary and feasible to mobilize significant new funding for the implementation of the Strategic Plan.