Decision COP 15/16
Knowledge management and the clearing-house mechanism
1. Invites biodiversity-related conventions, organizations, networks, processes and initiatives supporting the generation, discovery, capture, management and use of biodiversity-related data, information and knowledge, to contribute to the clearing-house mechanism of the Convention, based on existing knowledge management networks, organizations, initiatives and processes, to, among other things, promote and facilitate collaboration, interconnection and networking among them, with a view to making biodiversity data, information and knowledge more readily available and accessible for biodiversity planning, policy and decision making, implementation, monitoring, and reporting and review;
3. Also takes note of the following initiatives:
4. Further takes note of the Amazon Regional Observatory of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, which includes information and data for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and invites donors and multilateral organizations to provide international cooperation for strengthening these initiatives, as well as other relevant knowledge platforms;
5. Takes note of the progress made in the implementation of the work programme for the clearing-house mechanism in support of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020,1 and the draft elements of a post-2020 work programme for the clearing-house mechanism, outlined in the note by the Executive Secretary;
6. Decides to extend the work programme of the clearing-house mechanism for the period 2021–2030, and to update it in line with the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework and relevant decisions, mechanisms and strategies for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting with a view to its adoption;
7. Requests the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation, as per its mandate, to provide the Executive Secretary with advice on the development and implementation of the work programme for the clearing-house mechanism in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework;
8. Urges Parties, and invites other Governments and relevant organizations, as appropriate, to continue providing financial, technical and human resources support to enable developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, and countries with economies in transition, to strengthen their national clearing-house mechanisms, and to develop or upgrade their national clearing-house mechanism websites using the Bioland tool, as appropriate and in accordance with national priorities and circumstances;
9. Requests the Executive Secretary, subject to the availability of resources:
(a) To further develop, in collaboration with Parties and relevant organizations and with the support of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation, the draft knowledge management component of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for peer review by Parties and for review by the Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions at its twelfth meeting, and for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its fourth meeting and by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting, with a view to its adoption;
(b) To continue to facilitate the efforts of Parties to establish, sustain and further develop their national clearing-house mechanisms, including through:
(iii) Development of guidance for the national focal points to the clearing-house mechanism on the coordination of activities related to the clearing-house mechanism at the national level, to support effective implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans;
(iv) Development of Bioland instances for Parties that have not yet established a national clearing-house mechanism website, using the information provided on the respective country profile pages on the Convention website, for their review and further development;
(c) To further develop the central clearing-house mechanism portal to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation, knowledge management, communication and enhanced planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and review processes;
(d) To continue collaboration with relevant initiatives, organizations and networks supporting the generation, capture, management and effective use of biodiversity-related data, information and knowledge, including, as appropriate, the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation and Monitoring Centre, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, the United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (InforMEA) and the Data Reporting Tool for MEAs (DaRT), among others;
(e) To promote the use of relevant digital technologies to, among other things, assist Parties in the improvement of national capacities for the discovery, collection, analysis, aggregation, storage, accessibility, searchability, visualization and exchange of biodiversity-related data, information and knowledge, as appropriate;
(f) To prepare, in collaboration with the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation, a proposal for an updated work programme for the clearing-house mechanism, aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and relevant decisions, and to submit the proposal for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its fourth meeting and consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixteenth meeting, with a view to its adoption;
- Body
- Conference of the Parties (COP)
- Meeting
- COP-157 - 19 December, 2022Montreal, Canada
- Actors
- 31 1 Donors 14 Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity 6 Parties 1 Government(s) 2 Relevant organizations 3 SBI 1 WG8J 1 United Nations Environment Programme 1 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) 1 International Union for Conservation of Nature
- GBF targets
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- Subjects
- 25 25 Knowledge Management
- Decision document
- 15/16Knowledge management and the clearing-house mechanism
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