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National workshops and activities
Best practices, available documents and presentations from national workshops, programmes, and activities relevant for GTI in your country, and the websites of GTI or CHM-NFPs.
World and General |
| What is a clearing-house?
The term "clearing-house" originally referred to a financial establishment where checks and bills are exchanged among member banks so that only the net balances need to be settled in cash. Today, its meaning has been extended to include any agency that brings together seekers and providers of goods, services or information, thus matching demand with supply. from the CBD-CHM page The Convention on Biological Diversity Around the World. Find the all available Focal Points of the CBD around the world. |
Europe |
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Supporting European taxonomy - current state and possible future actions. Annex- contributions to the discussion (Word Doc Download) |
Countries |
| Austria |
| Der "Clearing-House" Mechanismus in Österreich: NFP's Website |
| Belgium |
| NFP's Website: Welcome to the Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism, the portal site set up by Belgium to promote technical and scientific cooperation in the field of biodiversity and to provide information on matters related to the Convention on Biological Diversity. |
| Bulgaria |
| BULGARIAN BIODIVERSITY PLATFORM
National meeting: Current state of Biodiversity in Bulgaria - problems and perspectives |
| Czech Republic |
| CHM Website |
| Estonia |
| Seminar: “ The Biosystematics of the 21st century” held in the University of Tartu on the 12th of April, 2004 organised by the Academy of Sciences of Estonia. (9 presentations by leading biosystematicians of Estonia, 70 participants, brief abstract of the workshop in the Yearbook of the Estonian Academy of Science.
Project: Species of Estonia (Eesti Liikide Register - Database of the species registered in Estonia incl.fossils), project of The Natural History Museum of the Univerity of Tartu (lead by prof. Urmas Kõljalg) in cooperation with the Estonian Nature Information System Database EELIS administrated by the Estonian Environment Information Centre. The test version Eesti Seened / Estonian Fungi. The test version was funded by United Nations Environmental Program project GF/2716-01-4354 “Assessment of Capacity building needs for Biodiversity and Participation in Clearing House Mechanism in Estonia” |
| Finnland |
| Finnish CHM & Biodiversity Website |
| Germany |
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Find the results of the 2nd European Workshop on ‘Building Capacity for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) in a larger Europe’ held by the German National Focal Point of the GTI. Click here for Workshop 2004 information.
Webblog mit Nachrichten und Meldungen zur Taxonomie. Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ: Umsetzung der Biodiversitätskonvention / Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity |
| Italy |
| Italian CHM and Ministry Webpage |
| The Netherlands |
| Welcome to the Netherlands Clearing-House Mechanism for Biodiversity
Biodiversity Information Meeting report Netherlands Biodiversity Research School (including institutes Natural History Museum Naturalis, Zoological Museum Amsterdam, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Central Bureau for Fungal Cultures and Expert Centre for Taxonomic Identification) |
| Norway |
| Mar-Eco: Large international project on the Atlantic marine ecosystems
Artsdatabanken (National species data bank). Includes presentations made by Artsdatabanken at various meetings National Centre of Biosystematics (NBC), Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden Research group in biological systematics and taxonomy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Museum of Natural History and Archeology. |
| Sweden |
| Website (in Swedish and English). FN:s konvention om biologisk mångfald (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD) syftar till bevarande och uthålligt nyttjande av den biologiska mångfalden. Här hittar Du information om konventionen, tillståndet hos den biologiska mångfalden samt aktiviteter hos myndigheter och organisationer i Sverige. |
| Switzerland |
| Forum Biodiversity Switzerland Website
What is CH-CHM? Welcome to the Swiss Clearing-House Mechanism Biodiversity website; the Information platform of Switzerland for the application of the Convention on Biological Diversity of Rio 1992. The CH CHM is a Metadata-catalog - it contains the decriptions of data in the field of biodiversity in Switzerland. The database mainly describes projects, documents and data in a detailled form. To search the database click the following link. |
| United Kingdom |
| GTI NFP's Website
WHAT ON EARTH? The Threat to the Science underpinning conservation. House of Lords, 2002. Local on CD (as 900 KB PDF) |
Other regions |
| Japan |
| GTI NFP's Website |
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