Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity 2007

The fifth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity brought together some 250 participants, comprising scientists, managers, policy advisors, and NGO and community representatives from 75 countries. The participants gathered in Trondheim to explore the relationship between biodiversity, ecosystem services and people, to understand the synergies and tradeoffs in development paths, to consider how to make best use of time remaining before 2010 to reduce the loss of biological diversity, to contribute to the eradication of hunger and poverty, and to support the broader set of the Millennium Development Goals.

Message to Bali - a call for interaction
The participants at the fifth Trondheim Conference sent a call for interaction to the meetings of the United Nations framework convention on Climate Change at Bali in December 2007. The participants conclude in this call that the objectives of the Climate Change Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals can only be achieved if there is close cooperation among the actors within the regimes.

We are glad to report that the call was presented both by Norway and by the CBD Secretariat in Bali in December 2007,  and that the points were included in the agenda of the meetings. Especially forest protection as a measure to reduce emission for deforestation and degradation was highlighted, and focus on these issues is expected to continue with a need to look at both climate change and biodiversity.

Message to Bali

Chairman's report
The Chairmans's Report from the conference contains the conclusions and recommendations from the Conference Chairman, Mr Peter J Schei, including a Call for Interaction sent to the climate change negotiations in Bali. The report also includes key points in the presentations and discussions made under the conference.

Chaiman's report

The Chairman's Report is distributed to all conference participants as well as to relevant international organisations and institutions working on issues related to the conference. 

Conference Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings are sent to all conference participants and can be downloaded as a pdf.- version here:

Conferece Proceedings

The reports in printed version and on CD-ROM are also available from the Directorate for Nature Mangaement. Please send an e-mail to postmottak@dirnat.no with your request.

The outputs of the conference were submitted as information papers to the thirteenth meeting of the CBD’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA13), which was held in Rome in February 2008. A side event was also held on the conference at SBSTTA13. The outputs will in addition be made available to the ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9), which will be held in Bonn in May 2008.

Presentations
The presentations made at the Conference are now available at this home page. Press here 

Many of the presentations are also available through the CBD Secretariat. Press here

Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
ENB had coverage of the conference, and daily coverage and a summary may be found here.