TY - ICOMM T1 - The Biodiversity Discourse: Running to stand still? Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gita Dewan Verma KW - Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) KW - National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) KW - Regional Biodiversity Programmeme (RBP) KW - Right to Information Act (RTI Act, 2005) AB -

Milestones on the path to where we stand: The UN Convention on Biological Diversity was signed in 1992. To help Asian countries to implement it, International Union for Conservation of Nauture and Natural Resources (IUCN) established a Regional Biodiversity Programme (RBP) in 1996. As solicited partner to coordinate and implement GEF-UNDP-UNEP Biodiversity Planning Support Programme for South and Southeast Asia, RBP assisted development of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). The NBSAP process in India started in 2000 with $1 million grant from Global Environment Facility (GEF), routed through Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), and a consultative/participatory technical-component coordinated by the NGO Kalpavriksha. It continued past the enactment of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, by which the National Biodiversity Authority was established in 2003, and a Final Steering Committee meeting in January 2004 decided that the report submitted by Kalpvriksha could be published as Final Technical Report of NBSAP. In April 2004, in a biodiversity related matter before the Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee, MoEF placed on record its reservations about the biodiversity expertise of NBSAP Steering Committee member Shekhar Singh. In June 2004 Kalpvriksha and some other NGOs commented on the Biodiversity Rules, 2004. In March 2005 MoEF reportedly wrote to Kalpvriksha not to publish or in any form make public the NBSAP report. In July 2005 IUCN-RBP participated in a meeting of the NBA "to discuss and finalise the elements of several agreements". In September 2005, Kalpvriksha published the NBSAP report and released the same at an event on 04.10.05. On 05.10.05 MoEF issued a press note clarifying that it had rejected the report as being scientifically invalid. Kalpvriksha and others issued a response and released the report again on 10.10.05.

JA - Anomie: Master Plan Implementation Support Group T3 - MPISG PB - Architexturez Imprints CY - New Delhi VL - 2012 N1 -

Note forming part of request made to all officials designated for purpose of Right To Information Act, 2005, in the Ministry of Environment & Forests to receive as information / request for rectification of omission u/s.4(1)(c), viz, non-publication of all relevant facts pertaining to the decision announced vide MoEF Press Note dated 05.10.2005 titled "National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan submitted by the NGO - Kalpvriksha has been rejected"

J1 - Anomie ID - AZ-CF-21702 ER -