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LOCATION:Online\, Webex\, 
SUMMARY:Webinar on Biodiversity and Trade Statistics (Mekong region\, India
  and Europe)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Participation by Webex invitation\n\n \n\n​Background\n\nIn 
 March 2018\, the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative launched its global BioTrade p
 rogramme “Linking trade\, biodiversity and sustainable development” wi
 th the financial support of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affai
 rs SECO.  As part of the activities under this 4-year programme\, UNCTAD 
 aims to compile and provide trade-related data which is relevant for repor
 ting under the SDGs (e.g. indicators 15.6 and 15.9)\, relevant Aichi targe
 ts (e.g. Aichi Targets 2\, 3 and 4) and post-Aichi targets.\n\nSpecificall
 y\, the BioTrade Initiative and the Development Statistics and Information
  Branch (DSIB) of UNCTAD are developing a mechanism that automatically com
 piles and provides updated trade flows of biodiversity-based products whic
 h will be directly accessible at https://unctadstat.unctad.org.  In the s
 econd half of 2019\, UNCTAD BioTrade and DSIB conducted a pilot exercise\,
  to identify the trade flows from 2010 to 2018 of BioTrade priority specie
 s and products provided by partners\, grouped into different HS subheading
 s. Specifically\, the pilot considered the following BioTrade beneficiary 
 countries: Botswana\, Colombia\, Ecuador\, Lao PDR\, Malawi\, Mozambique\,
  Myanmar\, Namibia\, Peru\, South Africa\, Swaziland\, Viet Nam\, Zambia a
 nd Zimbabwe. Similarly\, information on species and products prioritized b
 y partners were grouped into several tariff lines. Based on the lessons le
 arned from this pilot exercise\, UNCTAD BioTrade and DSIB have been upscal
 ing the mechanism to include all biodiversity-based products and all count
 ries.\n\nObjective\n\nThe webinar will present the BioTrade/DSIB “Trade 
 and Biodiversity mechanism” being developed. It will focus on presenting
  the data and the information that can be extracted from it\, as well as a
 n introduction to UNCTAD’s statistics platform – UNCTADstat – on whi
 ch the biodiversity trade data mechanism will be hosted.\n\nIt is expected
  that this information will be used by BioTrade partners and other actors 
 for the development of their activities\, as well as to provide data on tr
 ade and biodiversity that could be an input for reporting in other nationa
 l and international processes\, including those led by the Convention on B
 iological Diversity (CBD)\, UNCTAD and the UN system (e.g. national report
 s on the progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and CBD national
  biodiversity strategies and action plans).\n\nLanguage\n\nThis webinar wi
 ll be held in English on the 12th of June 2020\, considering the time diff
 erence with partners residing in Asia\, Africa and Europe. A first version
  of the webinar was held in Spanish for partners in Latin America and Cana
 da in the afternoon of the 10th of June\, Geneva time.\nhttps://unctadstat
 .unctad.org\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/webi
 nar-biodiversity-and-trade-statistics-mekong-region-india-and-europe
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