Community TABA

I volunteered at a side event called Community TABA at the COP 8 convention. The Community Taba is a dialogue space that is constructed on the ExpoTrade grounds and it is the meeting space for 100-120 grassroots, island, indigenous and community representatives and leaders who discuss topics such as traditional knowledge, access and benefit sharing, island biodiversity, and sustainable business and biodiversity, and a Declaration would be drafted to present into the official COP 8 proceedings. There are also cultural and social programming at the Taba, as well as a Global-Local Leaders dialogue which brings together high-level politicians or development practitioners with the representatives working on the ground to debate and dialogue on pertinent themes related to biodiversity and sustainable development.

To find out more about Community TABA, click here