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This toolkit on communication. education and public awareness (CEPA) including considerations for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) contains methodologies, tips, checklists, case models and other materials to help Parties and stakeholders develop innovative awareness-raising strategies and training materials to communicate about biodiversity-related issues, in particular access and benefit-sharing. It draws upon work done under the programme of work on communication, education and public awareness (CEPA)

The term given to the variety of life on Earth, provides, through its expression as ecosystems, goods and services that sustain our lives. Human pressures on ecosystems are causing changes and losses at rates not seen historically. People are changing ecosystems more rapidly and more extensively than over any other period in human history. Climate change adds yet another pressure on natural ecosystems.