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CBD Secretariat Hosts Meeting of the Inter Agency Support Group on Indigenous Issues (IASG) Days after Adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly

Montreal 18 September 2007 - Shortly after midday on Thursday, 13 September 2007, after more than two decades of preparation, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. A few days later, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Divers ...

CBD Secretariat Receives Ozone Protection Award

Montreal 21 September 2007 - The CBD Secretariat has received a Twentieth Anniversary Ozone Protection Award in the Partners Award category in recognition of its role as a member of the Green Customs Initiative (GCI) in the development and implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances th ...

Convention Convenes the Fifth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing

The fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing will be held from 8 to 12 October 2007 at the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal. The Working Group is co-chaired by Mr Fernando Casas form Colombia and Mr Tim. H ...

Convention Convenes the Fifth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Article 8(j) - Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices

The fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions will be held from 15 to 19 October 2007 at the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal. The Conference of the Parties established the Ad Hoc Open-ended Workin ...

Executive Secretary Welcomes the Announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and Al Gore

The Executive Secretary, Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, today welcomed the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded jointly to the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Mr. Al Gore. In welcoming the announcement Mr. Djoghlaf praised the Nobel Committee for highlighting the incr ...

Strengthening of Partnerships through Synergies between the UNCCD and the Convention on Biological Diversity

Legal and Technical Experts Meet Next Week to Discuss International Rules on Liability and Redress for Damage Resulting from Transboundary Movements of Living Modified Organisms

MONTREAL, 18 October 2007 – A working group of legal and technical experts on liability and redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will meet in Montreal next week from 22 to 26 October. More than 200 participants, including delegates from Governments, civil society and in ...

Secretariat Marks International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by Standing Up in Solidarity with the United Nations and the World

In solidarity with the millions of people in the world suffering from poverty and in response to the call of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, “To Stand Up and Speak out”, the 350 participants attending the fifth meeting of Ad Hoc Working Group on Article 8(j) and Rel ...

CBD Secretariat and the United Nations Regional Economic and Social Commissions Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Mainstream the Objectives of the Convention and Enhance Cooperation

New York – 25 October 2007. A memorandum of understanding geared towards enhancing the cooperation and collaboration between the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations regional economic and social commissions for Africa (ECA), Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), ...

Memorandum of Understanding Signed between the CBD Secretariat and UNEP GRID-Arendal Centre

Montreal – 30 October 2007. A Memorandum of Understanding between the CBD Secretariat and the GRID-Arendal Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was signed today in Trondheim, at the margins of the 2007 Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Discuss Enhanced Collaboration

Montreal – 5 November 2007. In order to discuss ways and means to enhance collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Executive Secretary of the Convention, Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, met with Mr. Jacque ...

Secretariat of CBD launches Adaptation website at UNFCCC COP-13

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a website on planning and practices for adaptation to climate change. The launch will be on Thursday, 13 December at 10:00am in the Bali Conference Centre.

Letter of Intent Signed between the Government of the Netherlands and the CBD Secretariat

Montreal – 7 December 2007 With the aim of assisting developing countries in their efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, a four-year framework of cooperation between the Government of the Netherlands and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biol ...

Convention on Biological Diversity Launches Adaptation Website

Bali, 13 December 2007 – To promote efforts that will allow all forms of life on Earth to cope with climate change, the Convention’s Biodiversity Adaptation website was officially launched today by the Executive Secretary, Ahmed Djoghlaf and the Director General of Germany’s Federal Ministry for ...

CBD Secretariat and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany Sign Memorandum of Understanding on “Biodiversity and Poverty Alleviation”

Montreal – 2 January 2008. An Agreement in the amount of € 1.000.000,00 EURO to support the project “Linking implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Poverty Alleviation” was signed between the Executive Secretary of the Convention and on HEM Thomas Matussek, the Ambassado ...

Brunei Darussalam Initiates the Procedure to Become 191st Party to the CBD

Montreal – 14 January 2008. At the invitation of the Government of Brunei, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, paid an official visit on 12 January 2008 to Bandar Seri Begwin in Brunei Darussalam. During his visit, the Executive Secretary ...

Biodiversity Convention Launches Regional Workshops on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in Singapore - and Signs Agreement with the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

Montreal – 14 January 2008. The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) initiated today the first of a series of regional and sub-regional capacity building workshops on national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) and the integration of biodiversity into the n ...

Sixth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing Convenes in Geneva

Geneva – 22 January 2008. The sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS 6) of the Convention on Biological Diversity opened yesterday at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Towards a CBD Gender Plan of Action

Geneva – 23 January 2008. With funding support from HIVOS (Dutch Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries), a workshop was organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Senior Gender Advisor of IUCN from 16 to 18 January 2008 in Geneva. Parti ...

Achieving the Johannesburg Biodiversity Target on Protected Areas

Rome - 11 February 2008. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened the second meeting of its Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WGPA 2) today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. The meeting will run from 1 ...

Mobilizing Science for Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Targets

Rome – 18 February 2008. The scientific body of the Convention on Biological Diversity is meeting this week for the first time in Rome, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to review the implementation of the Convention’s programmes of work o ...

Dialogue with the Chairman of the Group of 77 and China in New York on the Preparations for Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Montreal - 25 March 2008. In the context of continued dialogue between Parties to the Convention and heads of regional groups and the Secretariat, a delegation from Antigua and Barbuda, which holds the chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China at United Nations Headquarters in New York for 2008 ...

Biodiversity Loss—It Will Make You Sick: ‘Sustaining Life’ Identifies Huge Losses to Medical Science from the Decline and Extinction of the World’s Nature-Based Assets.

Montreal/Nairobi, 24 April— A new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for thinning bone disease and kidney failure, and new cancer treatments may all stand to be lost unless the world acts to reverse the present alarming rate of biodiversity loss a new landmark book says.

Executive Secretary Welcomes EU-Japan Cooperation on 2010 Biodiversity Targets

Japan and the European Union on 24 April pledged to cooperate towards the achievement of the 2010 Biological Diversity Target. In a joint release “Japan and the EU, acknowledging the Potsdam Initiative-Biological Diversity 2010, will work together for achieving by 2010 a significant reduction of ...

Biodiversity Integral Component of the Development Platform for the South, Recommends G77 Expert Panel (as corrected on 8 May 2008)

Montreal, 30 April 2008. The inaugural meeting of the High-level Panel of Eminent Personalities on the Development Platform for the South, held in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda on 29-30 April 2008, has recommended in the draft Development Platform for the South a multi-year plan of action to i ...

Brunei Darussalam Becomes the 191st Party to the Convention

Montreal 1 May –2008. Brunei Darussalam, one of the richest countries in term of biological diversity and a partner to the Heart of Borneo Initiative has decided to join the Convention on Biological Diversity. Brunei Darussalam deposited its instrument of accession on 28 April 2008 and will bec ...

International Community to Meet in Germany for a United Nations Conference on Living Modified Organisms and Biodiversity

Montreal, 2 May 2008– More than 2,000 delegates, including ministers and representatives from Governments, civil society and business, will meet in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 16 May 2008, for the fourth meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP). The meeting is expec ...

Germany Hosts Global Conference on Biological Diversity - Promoting a Global Response for Addressing the Unprecedented Loss of Biodiversity

Montreal – 8 May 2008. “Renewing agricultural diversity of crops and livestock backed by a functional natural support system is the international community’s best long-term solution to meet the global food challenge,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Div ...

Training Workshop for Government Officials in the Use of the Biosafety Clearing-House Successfully Concluded

Bonn, 11 May 2008. A training workshop on the use of the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) ended last evening with a call to mobilize additional resources to further build the capacities of developing countries in this area. More than 60 participants, including over 50 national focal points for t ...

Largest international gathering on Biosafety meets in Bonn to finalize arrangements for the Cartagena Protocol

Bonn, May 12 2008- Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety opened their fourth meeting today at the Maritim Hotel in Bonn, in Germany. More than 3000 delegates from 147 countries assembled to fulfill their commitment to ensuring the safe use of modern biotechnology, including reaching a ...

Agreement reached to work towards a legally binding instrument on Liability and Redress with regard to GMOs

Bonn, 16 May 2008 - After four years of intensive negotiation, the 2,000 participants attending the Bonn Biosafety Meeting, the largest ever gathering on biosafety, agreed to work towards legally binding rules and procedures for liability and redress for potential damage caused from the tran ...

Governments open meeting in Bonn to take action on declining biodiversity resources

Bonn, 19 May 2008 –Nearly 7,000 participants from 191 countries opened the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany, today to take takes steps to conserve and sustainably manage the world’s biodiversity in light of the alarming rate of loss of species, compounded by the pressur ...

Biodiversity needed to feed the world, the International Day for Biological Diversity 22 May 2008

Bonn, 22 May 2008—Against a background of rising food prices, and with pressures from climate change affecting fields and orchards, celebrations of the International Day of Biological Diversity (IBD) will stress the need to properly protect and manage the world’s biodiversity in order to ensure ...

Germany and the United Nations Biodiversity Secretariat announce a “Green COP”

Bonn, 22 May— On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity, Mr. Sigmar Gabriel, Minister of Environment of Germany and President of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, announced the measures taken t ...

UN Biodiversity Convention Secretariat teams up with Europe’s Bern Convention to stop the lost of biodiversity in Europe

Bonn - 22 May 2008—To support efforts to meet the 2010 global goal to reverse and stop the loss of biodiversity, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity today signed a strategic partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, known as the Bern Con ...

The “Green Wave” launched at the UN Bonn Biodiversity Summit

Bonn - 22 May 2008— A global initiative under the motto “One school, one tree, one gift for Nature “ aimed at empowering youth to take charge of their future was launched today in Bonn at the 9th United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, on the occasion of the International Day on Biological D ...

Biodiversity added to the agenda of Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit

Bonn - 26 May 2008 — G8 environment ministers at the Kobe meeting adopted, for the first time a call for action for biodiversity elevating biodiversity to a key item on the agenda of the upcoming Hokkaido Toyako Summit. Since the establishment of the G8 summit in 1975 in Rambouillet, France bi ...

Urban Biodiversity and the Role of Cities in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use discussed at Bonn Biodiversity Conference

Bonn, 26 May—With more than half of the world’s people now living in cities, 191 countries are, for the first time, discussing ways to promote biodiversity in an urban setting at the Biodiversity Conference taking place in Bonn, Germany. The countries are joined by the mayors of the world, who w ...

Biodiversity Convention Secretariat Signs Historic Agreement with Brazilian State of Paraná to Offset Emissions

Bonn, 27 May — To meet its pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and work toward carbon neutrality, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity entered into a partnership today with the Brazilian State of Paraná to replant native trees and contribute to the regeneration of ...

3 Heads of State, 87 Ministers to Open Biodiversity High Level Conference

Bonn, 27 May—The leaders of Germany, Canada and Palau, together with 87 ministers, will open high-level talks aimed at promoting the protection of the world’s biodiversity at the World Conference Center in Bonn tomorrow morning, 28 May, and continue at the Maritim Hotel through Friday, 30 May.

World Leaders redouble their Commitment to fulfil the Commitment of Heads of State and Government to substantially reduce the Rate of Loss of Biodiversity by 2010

Bonn 28 May 2008 – For the first time in the history of multilateral cooperation for the environment, world leaders reiterated their commitment to substantially reduce the loss of biodiversity within two years. Representatives of 191 Parties and more than 100 Ministers met at the ministerial se ...

Parliamentarians issue Declaration in Support of Biodiversity Action at Bonn Conference

Bonn, 28 May—Calling the present level of biodiversity loss “unprecedented”, parliamentarians attending the Bonn Biodiversity Conference issued a declaration yesterday expressing renewed resolve to ensure that they take the necessary legislative and administrative actions to implement programmes ...

A new Universal Global Alliance for Biodiversity Protection established in Bonn

Bonn, 30 May 2008 –Representatives of 191 Parties and over 100 ministers have produced significant new measures to increase the network of protected areas and to negotiate an international set of rules on access to and sharing of the benefits of the rich genetic resources of the world. In so do ...

Biodiversity: A Missing Link for Mitigating Climate Change - World Environment Day celebrated in Montreal

Montreal: 6 June 2008 –World Environment Day was celebrated in Montreal yesterday by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Montreal diplomatic community by the hoisting for the first time of the United Nations flag at the entrance to the Montreal World Trade Centre, w ...

Investing in the Future – Business for Biodiversity and Sustainability

Montreal, 16 June 2008 – The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held consultations with the business community on 11 and 12 June 2008 in Montreal and San Francisco to discuss the involvement of businesses in implementing the Convention.

Japan launches the preparation of the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit to be held in Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya city in October 2010

17 June 2008, Montreal – Just two weeks after the 191 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took the decision in Bonn to convene the next United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, in Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya city in 2010, Japan has launched a national campaign for the p ...

Strategic Partnership with ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity to protect 20 per cent of the Biodiversity of Planet Earth

Montreal 21 June 2008. Despite occupying only three per cent of the Earth’s surface, the ten member States of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) host 20 per cent of the all known species. South-East Asia has one third of all coral reefs in the world. Forty-five per cent of th ...

Engaging Cities of the World in the Battle for Life on Earth

Montreal 25 June 2008. The growth of the urban world represents one of the most dramatic changes experienced by humanity in recent history. For the first time in history, the world’s urban population is now greater than that of rural areas, having reached 3.2 billion people. It has increased ...

Towards a Strategic Partnership with Civil Aviation for Protecting Life on Earth

Montreal 30 June 2008. Air transport is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Last year, 2.2 billion passengers and 35 per cent of exports of goods were transported by airplanes. The industry has an economic impact equivalent to 8 per cent of global gross domestic product and ge ...

G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit — A Historic Contribution to Biodiversity

Montreal, 9 July 2008. On 9 July 2008, leaders of the G8 committed themselves to a ground-breaking plan for action to stem the loss of biodiversity. In the Declaration of the G8 2008 Hokkaido Toyako Summit that concluded today in Japan.