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The Biosphere Ethics Initiative invited to Paris for program development and celebration with IUCN Director General

Global Program, The Biosphere Ethics Initiative

October 10th, 2009

The Paris Muséum nationale d’histoire naturelle and the IUCN Comité français have invited CHN Director of North American Global Responsibilities, Kathryn Kintzele, CHN Board Member George Rabb and the Biosphere Ethics Initiative to a meeting to finalize drafting of the Biosphere Ethic and begin development of the program’s Action Plan. Patrick Blandin, a Professor at the Muséum, is one of the four co-chairs of the Initiative, with Dr. Kintzele. They will be joined by IUCN Commission on Environmental Law Chair Sheila Abed and Deputy Chair Antonio Herman Benjamin (Justice, Supremo Tribunal Federal of Brazil); IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre; and key officials from the Muséum and the IUCN Comité français. The two other co-chairs, Razeena Omar of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism for the Republic of South Africa, and Karla Monteiro Matos of the Environment Ministry of Brazil, will also be in attendance. The meeting will be held in February 2010 to mark several events of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. The work will then be taken to the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in October 2010.

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