Participation in the Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP 4) in Bonn, Germany

International NGO-Meeting in Preparation for MOP 4 of the Cartagena Protocol in Bonn, Germany, organized by the CBD Alliance, Deutscher Naturschutzring and Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung

Participation in the Meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs of the fifth meeting of the Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Bonn, Germany

Meeting of the Chamber on Sustainable Development of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (Rat der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland) in Hannover, Germany with a presentation by Christine von Weizsäcker on COP 9

NGO Workshop and press conference on Biosafety in Bonn, Germany, organized by Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, with contributions by CHristine von Weizsäcker and Ricarda Steinbrecher

Participation in the Fifth meeting of the Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Protocol in Cartagena, Colombia.

Participation in the Thirteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 13) at the FAO in Rome, Italy; preceded by an NGO strategy meeting organized by the CBD Alliance

Participation in the Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WGPA 2) at the FAO in Rome, Italy; preceded by an NGO strategy meeting organized by the CBD Alliance

Lecture by Christine von Weizsäcker and Panel participation on Negotiating Nature – Introduction into the Procedures of a Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Natur verhandeln- Einblicke in den Ablauf einer CBD Vertragsstaatenkonferenz)in a lecture series organized by the University of Bonn Germany in preparation of COP 9 in Bonn „Das internationale Bonn- Politik für Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen. Themen und Hintergründe der 9. UN-Konferenz über Biologische Vielfalt in Bonn", organized by the University of Bonn, Germany

Strategy Meeting on Ecoropa’s future involvement in the negotiations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Emmendingen, Germany