Report from The Next Frontier: Transboundary Cooperation for Biodiversity and Peace now available
The report of the Salzburg Global session The Next Frontier: Transboundary Cooperation for Biodiversity and Peace is now available online to read, download and share.
The November 2016 session, part of the 10-year Park and the Planet Forum, brought together 38 experts from 26 countries. The Fellows explored the challenges necessary to overcome to advance conservation and peace-building efforts across borders. Among other aspects, discussions looked for solutions to problems related to cross-frontier security, nature conversation, and economic growth in transboundary areas.
The report is written by Salzburg Global Fellow, Consultant of the Canadian Parks Council and operations manager at Club Monaco, Chúk Odenigbo. The document summarizes some the topics exposed on the four-day program, namely transboundary trade, resources management, climate resilience and peace. Interviews with some of the fellows can also be found in the report.
While in Salzburg, participants agreed on several initiatives that were collected in the Salzburg Statement for Transboundary Cooperation for Biodiversity and Peace. The document, drafted collectively by Salzburg Global Seminar and IUCN with inputs from the international cohort of Fellows, has already been shared by the Fellows within their networks. Such is the case of Trevor Sandwith, who presented it in the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Cancun held in Mexico in December 2016.
The Parks for the Planet Forum was launched by Salzburg Global Seminar and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a ten-year collaborative platform to transform and catalyze leadership and action to deliver the Promise of Sydney.
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Salzburg Global Session The Next Frontier: Transboundary Cooperation for Biodiversity and Peace is part of the multi-year Parks for the Planet Forum. This session was hosted in partnership with IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), MAVA Foundation, Arcus Foundation, Aga Khan Foundation, German cooperation (Deutsche Zusammenarbeit), Huffington Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Foundation, and others. More information on the session can be found here: www.salzburgglobal.org/go/571
