Outcomes of the Pan-African Conference on Biodiversity: \"Biodiversity and Poverty Alleviation: What Opportunities for Africa?\"

This document, prepared to inform of participants in the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, describes the outcomes of the Pan-African Conference on Biodiversity: “Biodiversity and Poverty Alleviation: What Opportunities for Africa?”, which was held in Libreville, from 13 to 17 September 2010. The present information document consists of four annexes, providing respectively (a) a common position for the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity; (b) the Libreville Declaration on Biodiversity and Poverty alleviation; (c) a roadmap for a green economy in Africa; and (d) a roadmap for a pan-African committee for the intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services.