Global Taxonomy Initiative

Documents

The following list of documents has been produced under or made available through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and deal specifically with taxonomy. Also included are a few key publications from external sources which have been designed to support the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI):

Guide to the Global Taxonomy Initiative
Comprehensive information on the Global Taxonomy Initiative

Linnaeus Lecture Series Booklet #1
Booklet about the inaugural CBD Linnaeus lectures containing summaries of presentations and information on the importance and legacy of Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy.

Technical Series # 96: The Global Taxonomy Initiative in Support of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
This CBD Technical Series contains outcomes of the GTI Forum 2020 held virtually from 2 to 4 December 2020 and highlights the scientific tools, capacity development activities and services available to Parties with advice given by taxonomic experts.

The Global Taxonomy Initiative - The Response to a Problem:
GTI brochure – English
GTI brochure – French
GTI brochure – Spanish

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/2/5
Practical approaches for capacity building for taxonomy.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/3/Inf.32/
GEF Workshop: Removing the taxonomic impediment.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/6/
Further advancement of the Global Taxonomy Initiative.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/6/CORR.1
Further advancement of the Global Taxonomy Initiative (corrigendum)

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/INF/1
The Global Taxonomy Initiative: Shortening the Distance Between Discovery and Delivery. Report of a meeting held at Linnean Society, London, UK on September 10-11 1998

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/INF/6
The Global Taxonomy Initiative: recommendations from DIVERSITAS Element 3, including an assessment of present knowledge of key species groups

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/4/INF/7
The Global Taxonomy Initiative: Using Systematic Inventories to Meet Country and Regional Needs.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/5/4
Item 3.3 of the Provisional Agenda Review of the Global Taxonomy Initiative.

SBSTTA/5 inf GTI.
Mechanisms for management of the GTI, with a consideration of traditional and indigenous knowledge perspectived on current taxonomic systems. Report of a meeting held 20 December 1999 at UNESCO, Paris.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/6/10
The Global Taxonomy Initiative. Draft work programme.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/6/INF/4
Global Taxonomy Initiative. Progress report on the Global Taxonomy Initiative

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/6/INF/4/ADD1
Global Taxonomy Initiative. Progress report on the Global Taxonomy Initiative Regional Meeting of Scientists in Central America, Costa Rica, 6-9 February 2001

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/8/3
Progress in the implementation of the programmes of work on cross cutting issues a component on the GTI

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/3
Progress in the implementation of the work on cross cutting issues a component on the GTI

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/16
Global Taxonomy Initiative: Progress and implementation of the programme of work

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/17
Preliminary report of first Global Taxonomy Initiative workshop in Asia

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/INF/30
Draft guide to the global taxonomy initiative.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/3
Progress report on the implementation of the programmes of work on relevant cross-cutting issues a component on the GTI

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/16
The global taxonomy initiative: Development of the process and the guidelines for the in-depth review of the programme of work

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/10/17
Outline of the global taxonomy initiative guide.

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/5
In-depth Review of the Implementation of the Programme of Work for the Global Taxonomy Initiative

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/11/5/Add.1
In-depth Review of the Implementation of the Programme of Work for the Global Taxonomy Initiative: Elements of Planned Activities for the New Programmes of Work

UNEP/CBD/COP/4/INF/28
The Darwin Declaration. Submission by the Government of Australia
(accessed 1-12-2004)

UNEP/CBD/COP/6/INF/23
The Global Taxonomy Initiative. Report on progress and status
(accessed 1-12-2004)

UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/1/INF/2
Access and Benefit-sharing and the Global Taxonomy Initiative. Document submitted to First meeting of the Ad-Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing (Bonn, Germany, 22 - 26 October 2001)

CBD Technical Series Publication No.21
Success stories in implementation of the programmes of work on dry and sub-humid lands and the Global Taxonomy Initiative - abstracts of poster presentations at SBSTTA-11. (Montreal 2005)

The European GTI Toolkit