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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 ...

Latest initiative under joint ITTO/CBD programme—a new project to support sustainable forest management (SFM) and biodiversity conservation in Africa

Yokohama/Montreal, 25 January 2012 –The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Government of Japan today signed a letter of understanding for funding of 278 million Japanese yen (US$ 3.6 million) to implement a large capacity-building project to support five Congo Basin countr ...

Latin America and Caribbean nations declare support for biodiversity mainstreaming efforts under Convention on Biological Diversity

Montreal 7 April 2016 – In anticipation of the discussions to take place at the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 13) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) later this year, Latin American and Caribbean Ministers of Environment have adopted a decision to enhance imple ...

Latvia becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress

Montreal, 7 December 2011 – On 30 November 2011, Latvia became the first country to ratify the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The first ratification comes just over a year after the Supplementary Protocol was adopted ...

Launch of InforMEA - The United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environment Agreement (MEAs)

Geneva, 15 June 2011 – The Multilateral Environmental Agreements Information and Knowledge Management Initiative (MEA IKM) develops harmonized MEA information systems to assist Parties and the environment community at large. Supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Initi ...

Launch of UN Biodiversity Lab 2.0: Spatial data and the future of our planet

New York, Oct 4 – The UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) 2.0 was launched today at Day 1 of the Nature for Life Hub. The UNBL 2.0 is a free, open-source platform that enables governments and others to access state-of-the-art maps and data on nature, climate change, and human development in new ways to g ...

Launch of an Enhanced Strategic Partnership to Benefit Life on Earth - Joint Efforts of UN Convention on Biological Diversity and The Nature Conservancy to Help Governments Implement Global Conservation Treaty, Increase Protected Areas

BARCELONA, SPAIN -- The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and The Nature Conservancy announced they have entered into a groundbreaking partnership agreement to support the 191 United Nations CBD signatories in enhancing the implementation of the objectives of the Conve ...

Launch of an Important Web Tool to Implement a Global Programme of Work for Protected Areas

Montreal, 11 May 2010. A new website for the programme of work on protected areas (PoWPA) under the Convention on Biological Diversity was launched today at the fourteenth meeting of the Convention’s Scientific Body, currently under way in Nairobi. The website provides important information, e ...

Launch of the COP-7 Electronic Press Room

MONTREAL— From February 9 to 20, 2004, some 2,000 world experts on biodiversity and sustainable development will converge on Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity.<p> To help journalists and the public s ...

Le maire de Montréal Gérald Tremblay participe à une conférence internationale des maires sur les villes et la biodiversité.

Montréal, le 23 mars 2007 – Du 26 au 28 mars prochain, le maire de Montréal, M. Gérald Tremblay, participera à la conférence internationale « Villes et biodiversité : atteindre la cible 2010 sur la biodiversité » qui se tiendra à Curitiba, au Brésil. Cette conférence est co-organisée par la vil ...

Leading companies respond to biodiversity loss by committing to the Action Agenda for Nature and People

Amsterdam/Montreal, 9 June 2021 – More than 50 companies have stepped forward to show their shared commitment as part of the ‘Sharm El Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People’ in support of the global biodiversity framework expected to be adopted in October 2021, Kunming , China, ...

Lebanon to become 165th Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Montreal, 13February 2013 – Lebanon deposited its instrument of accession to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity on 6 February 2013 and will become the 165th Party to the Protocol on 7 May 2013.

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 ...

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 ...

Liaison Group on Bushmeat concludes in Buenos Aires with Recommendations to the World Forestry Congress

Montreal, 21 October 2009 – The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Liaison Group on Bushmeat held its first meeting in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the International Council for ...

LifeWeb launches Zero Extinction Campaign to combat species extinctions

To focus attention on the global extinction crises and advance implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the LifeWeb initiative of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is launching the Zero Extinction Campaign.

Lithuania becomes seventy-first signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing

Montreal, 5 January 2012 – On 29 December 2011, Lithuania, became the seventy-first signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

London’s world renowned Natural History Museum joins forces with CBD for the implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Montreal, 13 December 2010 – The Natural History Museum of London, one of the world’s most preeminent centres of biodiversity research, has joined the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Consortium of Scientific Institutions. The Museum, home to life and science specimens ...

Loss of biodiversity impacts human health, says CBD and WHO

Healthy communities rely on well-functioning ecosystems. They provide clean air, fresh water, medicines and food security. They also limit disease and stabilize the climate. But biodiversity loss is happening at unprecedented rates, impacting human health worldwide, according to a new state of k ...

MEMO – To Ring a Bell for Biodiversity

Montreal, 21 May 2010. The International Year of Biodiversity is a wake up call for humanity. On 22 September Heads of State will assemble at the United Nations to discuss the biodiversity crisis. Simultaneously, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will encourage th ...

Mainstreaming biodiversity contributes to achievement of sustainable development, says new biodiversity chief to UN Secretary-General

10 April 2017 – Achieving global biodiversity targets will be a strong contribution to realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, said Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, newly appointed Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to United Nations Secretary-General Antón ...

Major Advances toward the Nagoya International Regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing

Montreal, 16 November 2009 – Substantial progress was made toward an International regime on access and benefit-sharing last week by the 527 participants representing the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and partner institutions. An international regime resulting in a protocol ...

Major Canadian institutions pledge support for the Convention for Life on Earth.

In celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity, representatives of major Canadian universities and research institutions signed an agreement with the Montreal-based Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to join forces in order to mobilize the scientific and tech ...

Major UN biodiversity conference convenes in The Hague<br>Forests, genetic resources and invasive alien species top the agenda

The Hague, March 2002 – Ministers, senior officials and experts from 182 Governments plus the European Union are meeting here from 7 to 19 April to strengthen global cooperation on managing the Earth’s biological resources

Major gap between what consumers want and what companies are doing to respect biodiversity

20 June 2018 – New surveys of more than 5,000 consumers in five countries indicate that the majority (79 per cent) feel that “companies have a moral obligation” to have a positive impact on people and biodiversity in their sourcing of natural ingredients, but only 37 per cent feel “confident tha ...

Major sustainable development outcomes of biodiversity meeting to be transmitted to 69th session of UN General Assembly for consideration in post-2015 Development Agenda

Today, the Minister of Environment of the Republic of Korea presented United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with three major outcomes of the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on the role of biodiversity for sustainabl ...

Maldives responds to Hyderabad Call for Biodiversity Champions: Entire country to become UNESCO Biosphere Reserve by 2017

Montreal, 18 February 2013 – In response to the call for champions in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Republic of Maldives has pledged to become the first nation where the entire country and its Exclusive Economic Zone will be a Biosphere Reserve.

Managing biodiversity data from local government: Guidance for local authorities on publishing through the GBIF network, helping preserve knowledge about biodiversity

Copenhagen, Denmark – Local governments around the world have a new tool to help share and use vast amounts of biodiversity knowledge collected in the course of their work.

Marine Biodiversity, Theme for the 2012 International Day for Biological Diversity

Montreal, 20 May 2011 – Challenges facing marine biodiversity are unprecedented. Life in the oceans is under serious threats. Continuously increasing human impacts in coastal areas have destroyed over 65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality and accelerated species invasions. ...

Mauritania Becomes 23rd Signatory to the Two New Biodiversity Treaties

Montreal, 20 May 2011 – Mauritania has signed the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization and the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, mak ...

Mayor of Montpellier, France, visits Convention Secretariat

Montreal, 8 June 2011- Serving as a reminder of the importance of translating international policy into local action, the Mayor of Montpellier, France, Madame Hélène Mandroux, paid a two-day visit to the seat of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Mo ...

Media Advisory - Nations Reconvene in Nairobi June 20-26 to Advance Text of Proposed Global Biodiversity Framework

10 May, 2022 – A meeting critical to advancing an ambitious and transformative post-2020 global biodiversity framework to safeguard nature will resume in-person in Kenya next month.

Media Advisory - Launch of the book: "The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: A Record of the Negotiations" and the Opening Press Conference of COP MOP 1

A new book entitled: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: A record of the Negotiations , published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity will be launched on Monday, February 23, the opening day of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of ...

Media Advisory - Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to meet in Aichi-Nagoya from 11 to 15 October 2010

Montreal, 28 September 2010 – Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety are preparing to hold their fifth ordinary meeting from 11 to 15 October 2010 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, at the Nagoya Congress Center (NCC). More than 3,000 delegates representing governments, civil society and industry a ...

Media Registration Opens for Historic Biodiversity COP 15 in Montreal: Final Negotiation / Adoption of New Global Agreement to Safeguard Nature (Final Working Group Negotiations: Dec. 3 - 5; COP 15: Dec. 7 - 19 )

Meeting of sub-national governments opens new chapter in implementation of the CBD

Montreal, 26 April 2012 – The Meeting of Sub-national Governments in support of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, held 24-27 April 2012 in Curitiba, Brazil, has opened a new chapter in the sub-national implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and in the Global Partnership on ...

Meeting on the Safe Use of Living Modified Organisms - First of three major United Nations meetings opens Monday

Pyeongchang/Montreal, 26 September 2014 – On Monday, delegates from around the world will convene for the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP 7).

Meeting to Review Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Concludes its Second Session.

Paris – 13 July 2007. The second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (WGRI-2), held with 360 participants at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris from 9 to 13 J ...

Meeting to Review the Implementation on the Convention on Biological Diversity Opens in Paris.

Paris – 10 July 2007: The second meeting of the Working Group on the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (WGRI 2) opened yesterday at UNESCO headquarters, in Paris with more than 320 participants from around the world. The meeting was opened by Mr. Antônio José Rezende Castro from Br ...

Megadiverse Mexico ratifies the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources

Montreal, 23 May 2012 – On 16 May, Mexico became the fifth country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Member governments of the Biosafety Protocol to meet to finalize documentation rules for genetically modified commodities

Montreal, 24 May 2005 – More than 800 government officials, civil society and business representatives will meet here next week from 30 May to 3 June for the second meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

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.

Message by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the Occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day 2007 - Migratory Birds in a Changing Climate, 12-13 May 2007

This year’s World Migratory Bird Day draws attention to the plight of birds as our climate changes. The main impacts of climate change will be on water, with extensive loss of coastal wetlands, retreat of glaciers, decreased sea-ice extent, thawing of some permafrost, longer ice-free seasons on ...

Message from Nagoya to Cancun and beyond: A sustainable future is founded on climate-resilient ecosystems and communities

Cancun, Mexico, 29 November 2010. Sustainable development in a world facing climate change can only be realized if coordinated action is taken to safeguard biodiversity and manage all land sustainably. Agencies and organizations working to address these key challenges will explore this message a ...

Message of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the International Wildland Fire Summit

CBD Statement to the International Wildland Fire Summit, Sydney, Australia, 8 October, 2003 Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary of the CBD, congratulates the organizers of the Summit, stating: "as the effects of uncontrolled fires are likely to transcend political boundaries, international and ...

Mexico Signs Nagoya Protocol on Genetic Resources: Megadiverse Country is the Fifth Signatory to the Historic Treaty

Montreal, 25 February 2011 – Mexico became the fifth country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization.

Mexico launches biodiversity and business alliance

26 OCTOBER 2016 – The Mexican Alliance for Biodiversity and Business, with the aim of promoting the protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems, was launched 17 October 2016 in Mexico City.

Mexico urges early ratification of the international treaty on access and benefit-sharing

Montreal, 11 April 2016 – Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico, as the incoming president of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in a joint letter with Braulio Ferreira de So ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Biodiversity Synthesis report released for the International Day for Biological Diversity

Decision-makers and scientists are gathering at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada on 19 May 2005 to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity. The theme for the year, “Biodiversity: Life Insurance for our Changing World” reminds us that, in addition to providing the physical con ...

Ministerial forum calls for leadership for a new biodiversity vision for the twenty first century

Montreal, 3 September 2010 – Eleven ministers responsible for the environment, representing the former and upcoming presidencies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), called upon world leaders to provide leadership in shaping and implementing a new bio ...