This page provides details of reports and publications from the COHAB Initiative Secretariat, COHAB Partners and pther organisations. Suggestions for inclusion on this list should be emailed to the Secretariat at webmaster@cohabnet.org.

COHAB Initiative reports

COHAB 2005, First International Conference on Health and Biodiversity

A summary of the main conclusions of the first COHAB conference, held in Ireland in 2005, which led to the development of the COHAB Initiative.

COHAB 2, Second International Conference on Health and Biodiversity - summary report

Conclusions and recommendations of the second COHAB conference, held in Ireland in 2008.

Input to Ireland's National Biodiversity Plan

Submission of the COHAB Initiative Secretariat to the Irish Government (Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government) in 2008, ahead of the revision of Ireland's National Biodiversity Plan (due to be published during 2009).

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Documents and Decisions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) and the Conference of the Parties (COP) referring specifically to health, to the COHAB Initiative, or related processes:

CBD COP8 (Curitiba, Brazil, 2006):

Decision VIII/23; Agricultural Biodiversity

SBSTTA Report on the International Consultation on Indicators for Biodiversity Used in Food and Medicine

CBD COP9 (Bonn, Germany, 2008):

Decision IX/27; Cooperation among multilateral environmental agreements and other organisations

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity.

"Sustaining Life", published by Oxford University Press in 2008, is the culmination of a major collaborative project, spanning several years, spearheaded by Dr. Eric Chivian and Dr. Aaron Bernstein at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Dr. Chivian was one of the key people behind the first COHAB conference in Ireland in 2005, and the Sustaining Life project has been an important inspiration and driver for setting up the COHAB Initiative.

The book is co-sponsored by UNEP, UNDP, IUCN and the CBD Secretariat. It includes contributions from over 100 leading scientists, exploring the ways in which biodiversity and ecosystem services sustain life on Earth, and highlighting the risks which biodiversity loss poses to human health and development.An overview of the book can be found on the UNDP's website here. A video of a discussion with Eric Chivian about the book, which took place at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC, in January 2009, can be watched here.

Click here to see a promotional flyer about the book. See the website of the Center for Health and the Global Environment to learn more.