Bradnee chambers biography of christopher
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I, as I am sure many others in the environment and sustainable development world, were shocked to hear about the death of Bradnee Chambers.
He was until his death the Executive sekreterare of the Convention on migratory Species (CMS) and I am reproducing their notice below.
As it says he played a significant role in helping to move the biodiversity conventions closer tillsammans. This follows up the work I knew him doing at UNEP on clustering conventions.
For those who were not involved with the environmental governance process in the lead up to Rio+20 I wanted to share my experience of working with Bradnee.
He had at that time been the Senior Legal Officer and ledare of the Law and Governance Branch of UNEP and as head of the Environmental Governance Strategic Team working for Achim Steiner Executive Director of UNEP.
He contributed a lot of the thinking on international environmental governance reform and processes. Not afraid to put forward new
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22 May 2014: The International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated globally on 22 May under the theme ‘Island Diversity,’ a theme that paid tribute to the designation of 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, used the Day to draw attention to the opportunities presented by the post-2015 development agenda and the upcoming Third Conference on Small Island Developing States, “to attend to the unique needs of small island developing states and reverse the global decline in biodiversity.”
Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), said of the Day, “we recognize the tremendous efforts made by islanders to build a future of life in harmony with nature.” He also took the opportunity to welcome four Parties to the CBD Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. Denmark, the EU, Namibia and Samoa deposited their instruments
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CMS
Bonn, 30 August 2016 - Today, the ASCOBANS Outreach and Education Award was presented to Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), and accepted on behalf of the organization by its Chief Executive, Chris Butler-Stroud. CMS Executive sekreterare Bradnee Chambers presented the award.
The award was presented at the 8th Meeting of the Parties to ASCOBANS, following a public call for nominations and the decision by a jury established by the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee. The purpose of the award is to recognize the crucial role of education in motivating people to protect the natural world. Education can increase public awareness both of the need to conserve small cetaceans and of the methods by which to do so. Only with effective outreach at many levels can the public become aware of challenges and able to fully support conservation efforts.
Past recipients of the Outreach and Education Award have included dolphin kunnig Mats Amundin of Sweden, Peter Evans of the Sea Watch Foundation