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

Participation in the Seventh Coordination Meeting for Biosafety Capacity-building Activities under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Eighth Meeting of the Liaison Group for Capacity-builiding for Biosafety under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Chisinau, Moldovia (CvW, HM)

Meeting of Christine von Weizsäcker, member of the Board of CBD Alliance and president of Ecoropa, with Prof. Anantha, United Nations Unversity, on “representation and effective participation of NGOs and other Major Groups in the IPBES process (Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services), in Nairobi, Kenya

Telephone conference of the Board of CBD Alliance, the umbrella of civil society organizations participating in the negotiations of the Convention on Biological, on issues of staff and financing and analysis and way forward for the organization until 2012 with Ricarda Steinbrecher as president of the Board, and Christine von Weizsäcker as honorary member.

Meeting of the Working Group on Biodiversity of the German NGO Forum Environment and Development on Decisions of COP 10 in Nagoya, organized by Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung (FUE) (CvW)

Participation at Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity including participation in the High Level Segment, co-organisation of press conferences "The Top-Ten Issues of the COP 10 Negotiations" and tnree press conferences on the state of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Negotiations(with CBD Alliance and WECF, TWN and EED), and a strategy meeting on ABS organized by the CBD Alliance and the Japanese Civil Society Network for the CBD.
(COP10) (HM, FM, RS, AL, HP, CvW)

Participation at the 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol (MOP5) in Nagoya, Japan, and co-organization of the side events Key decisions for adoption in Nagoya (Third World Network) and Advancing the Understanding of Biosafety (ENSSER), as well as editing the daily Civil Society newsletter ECO (CvW, FM, AL, RS, HM, HP)

Participation is the 14th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technological and Technical Advice (SBSTTA 14) and 3rd Meeting of the Working Group on Review of Implementation (WG-RI 3) of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nairobi, Kenya. (CvW)

Japan Tour in preparation of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in October 2010 in Nagoya (COP-MOP 5 und COP10). At the invitation of Japanese civil society, Christine von Weizsäcker met with parliamentarians of GLOBE, academics, civil society organizations and representatives of industry. She participated in the GLOBE Symposium on Biodiversity, Crop Diversity and COP10, gave the keynote speech at a public event by the Nagoya Univ/Asahi Forum at Asahi Hall, and held a seminar for graduate Students at Depanrtment for Environmental Studies.

Planet Diversity public event and anti-GMO demonstration in Nagoya Central Park, with a presentation “Greetings from civil society’s 'Planet Diversity' at COP-MOP 4 in Bonn to 'Planet Diversitys at COP-MOP 5 in Nagoya. Organized by the Japanese MOP5 Alliance