Meeting with Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the Federation of German Scientists (WDV) in Emmendingen, Germany, on involvement with IPBEs, and especially on cooperation with modern scientific approaches and their transdisciplinary cooperation with other forms of expertise and knowledge systems.

First Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in Bonn, Germany (CvW)

Participation in the Eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11) in Hyderabad, India, including participating in the CBD Alliance Capacity-building and Strategy Meeting, editing the daily civil society newsletter ECO, and organizing a side event on Biodiversity and People attacked by disasters and conflicts: A challenge for the implementation of the Convention

Participation in Sixth meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP6) in Hyderabad, India, including co-organizing the daily civil society meetings and editing the daily newsletter ECO (CvW, AL)

International Scientific Conference on Biosafety in Hyderabad, India with a summary by Christine von Weizsäcker; organized by Hartmut Meyer with ENSSER, Third World Network and Tara

Indian GMO Conference in Hyderabad, organized by Aruna Rodriges, Tara and ENSSER

Expert Meeting of NGO Forum Environment and Development „Ohne Moos nichts los!? (No dough, no action) Towards Financing the Strategic Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity up to 2020“ in Berlin, Germany

Participation is the 16th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technological and Technical Advice (SBSTTA 16) and Fourth Meeting of the Working Group on Review of Implementation (WG-RI 4) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada. (CvW, HP, RS, AL)

European Expert Meeting in Preparation of the Fifteenth Metting of SBSTTA, at the International Naturschutz-Akademie on the island of Vilm, organized by the Federal Agency for the Protection of Nature

Participation in the 15th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice in Montreal, Canada. Several Ecoropa members were involved in organizing the daily CBD Alliance strategy meetings of Civil society organisations, editing the NGO newsletter ECO, and co-organizing side events on Synthetic Biology with the ETC Group, Friends of the Earth and Econexus, and Financial Mechanisms with EcoNexus. (CvW, RS, HP, AL)