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Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity

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Streaming Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity May 31. - June 3. 2016 2016

The Eighth Trondheim Conference bring together decision-makers and experts from governments, private sector, academia, United Nations agencies and other non-governmental organizations from around the globe to discuss interrelationships between agriculture for food and biodiversity, and to identify approaches for the achievement of mutually beneficial and sustainable outcomes. It is intended that the deliberations and report of the Conference will amongst other things provide inputs to the high-level segment of the CBD COP13 to be held in Mexico in December 2016.

The Conference, hosted by the Norwegian Government in partnership with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Bank, is by invitation and will bring together up to 350 experts from governments, United Nations bodies and other international organizations, academia, private organizations and the non-governmental sector.

In Norway, the Ministry of Climate and Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and the Norwegian Environment Agency are cooperating in organizing the Conference