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NBSAP Forum 2.0

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91142 (2023-073)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

NEW DATE: International Forum facilitated by the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative: Workshop on ecosystem restoration-related planning and capacity-building needs for the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/LJ/91100 (2023-074)
To: CBD national focal points and SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives

Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress - measures to provide for financial security for damage from living modified organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/KG/PD/PS/91317 (2023-109)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Nelson Mandela International Day

18 July 2023, New York, United States of America

New dates: Online forum on invasive alien species

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MAQ/VA/90968 (2023-051)
To: CBD Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

New deadline: Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit sharing Clearing-House

Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/MD/NF/90804 (2023-077)
To: ABS national focal points from Africa and Asia-Pacific regions

New deadline: Invitation to participate in the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership Stakeholder Mapping Survey and the Rapid Capacity Needs Assessment Survey

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CP/91219 (2023-098)
To: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

New deadline: Invitation to submit an Expression of Interest to receive technical support from the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CP/91371 (2023-134)
To: CBD national focal points

Nomination of Gender and Biodiversity Focal Points

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/PBU/JL/OR/TM/91061 (2023-058)
To: CBD national focal points

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91069 (2023-059)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: CBD national focal points, BCH national focal points, SBSTTA national focal points

Online discussion of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

7 - 21 February 2024, Online

Online discussions of the Open-Ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91172 (2023-079)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points

Online discussions of the Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91337 (2023-115)
To: CBD national focal points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points, ABS Protocol focal points

Online forum of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/AMC/MW/91278 (2023-099)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and relevant organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House national focal points

Online forum of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

17 - 24 November 2023, Online

Open-ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment

21 - 25 August 2023, Online

Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology

6 - 22 November 2023, Online

Open-ended Online Forum: Long-term approach on mainstreaming and associated Action Plan

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/BB/GD/91319 (2023-122)
To: CBD national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant initiatives and stakeholders, cc: Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points

Open-ended Working Group on Climate Change and World Heritage (UNESCO)

15 September 2023, Paris, France

Open-ended online forum on invasive alien species

12 - 19 May 2023, Online

Open-ended online forum on the long-term strategic approach on mainstreaming and associated action plan

12 - 22 December 2023, Online

Opening Remarks by Mr. David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, GEF Council, Brasilia, June 26, 2023

Opening Remarks by Mr. David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, GEF Council, Brasilia, June 26, 2023

Opening Statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 12 November 2023

Opening Statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 12 November 2023

Opening remarks by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilization, 25-29 September 2023, Kinshasa

Opening remarks by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilization, 25-29 September 2023, Kinshasa

Opening statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, 14 November 2023

Opening statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, 14 November 2023

Peer review of the draft literature review of trends and issues in synthetic biology (2012-2023)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91494 (2024-003)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points, ABS national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Peer review of the outcomes and methodology of the process of broad and regular horizon scanning, monitoring and assessment of the most recent technological developments in synthetic biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/AMC/MW/91589 (2024-027)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points

Recommendation 25/4

Plant conservation

Preparatory meeting of the Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilization

5 September 2023, Online

Preparatory meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

16 January 2024, Online

Preparatory meeting of the Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

24 October 2023, Online

Protected Planet Report 2024: Call for submission of data to inform the preparation of the report on progress toward Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/ESE/91587 (2024-026)
To: CBD national focal points, PoWPA focal points, SBSTTA focal points

Recommendation 12/5

Recommendations from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues pertaining to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for Latin America, 25-28 June 2024 - Lima, Peru

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/NS/GT/91500 (2024-034)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for Middle East and North Africa, 16-19 January 2024 - Amman, Jordan

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91357 (2023-116)
To: National Focal Points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen

Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for South and East Asia

23 - 26 January 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for South and East Asia, 23-26 January 2024 - Tokyo, Japan

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91349 (2023-114)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Japan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, and Sri Lanka

Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for countries in the Middle East and North Africa

16 - 19 January 2024, Amman, Jordan

Regional Dialogues on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for African Countries, 30 May to 2 June 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91545 (2024-016)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania (United Republic of), Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Registration for side-events and information for participants at the twenty-fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 25), 15 to 19 October 2023 - Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/GT/91109 (2023-083)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Registration for side-events at the twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 26), 13–18 May 2024, and the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4), 21-29 May 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/IMS/JL/NP/91510 (2024-018)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Registration for the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) and the concurrent meetings of the Parties to the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols, and for the Fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/91661 (2024-038)
To: CBD national focal Points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous people and local communities, and relevant stakeholders

Registration for the Twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 12 to 16 November 2023, and the First meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, 14 to 18 November 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/GT/91084 (2023-072)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Registration for the Twenty-fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 25), 16-20 October 2023 - Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/GT/91109 (2023-070)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Registration for the twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 26), 13–18 May 2024 and the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4), 21 to 29 May 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/IMS/JL/NP/91510 (2024-012)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Remarks by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the fifty-first session of the Committee on World Food Security, Panel discussion on interlinkages between food security and the Rio conventions, Rome, 24 October 2023