International Frameworks

IABGC - International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Plant Conservation

CITES - Convention on Trade in Endangered Species

Ramsar - Wetlands Convention

UNFCCC - The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNCCD - UN Convention to Combat Desertification

PGRFA - The FAO Global Plan of Action

World Heritage Convention

BGCI Policy Tools

There are international, regional and national policy tools which focus and support plant conservation in botanic gardens as well as specific frameworks for botanic gardens. These policy tools are listed here with examples showing how botanic gardens support and implement their objectives.

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Linkages - Live Coverage from Policy Meetings
This website offers a fantastic range of resources including reports from recent policy meetings, news on the environment and sustainable development, new publications and upcoming meetings. It covers the CBD, CoP, SBSTTA and all those big international meetings that normally seem so obscure.

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More than a few nonprofit professionals find themselves being thrown into marketing responsibilities without being formally trained or having much experience or support. This PDF from Mission Minded identifies some of the most common mistakes made by nonprofits and outlines solutions to avoid them.

Death by Meeting - A Leadership Fable

This is a story set as a fable - and after the fable comes an undiluted section of advice: about 40 pages of straightforward, expository prose about how to have more effective, engaging meetings.

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