Decision COP 16/9
Clearing-house mechanism and knowledge management
A. Clearing-house mechanism
Recognizing the importance of the clearing-house mechanism in supporting the technical and scientific cooperation mechanism, the knowledge management strategy to support the implementation of the Framework, as contained in the annex to decision 16/9 B of 1 November 2024, the communications strategy to support the implementation of the Framework and the enhanced multidimensional approach to planning, monitoring, reporting and review,
2. Invites Parties, other Governments, the global coordination entity, the regional and subregional technical and scientific cooperation support centres and relevant initiatives and organizations to implement the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism for the period 2024-2030, in order to support the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Protocols and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework;
5. Urges Parties, in line with Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention, and invites other Governments and relevant organizations, to provide financial and technical support to biodiversity capacity-building and development activities, taking into consideration the specific situations of developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States among them, and Parties with economies in transition, to implement the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism;
8. Invites the regional and subregional support centres and the global coordination entity of the technical and scientific cooperation mechanism to facilitate the implementation of the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism in collaboration with the Secretariat and relevant organizations and initiatives;
11. Requests the Executive Secretary, subject to the availability of resources:
(a) To facilitate the implementation of the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism in collaboration with Parties, regional and subregional support centres, the global coordination entity of the technical and scientific cooperation mechanism and, as appropriate, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth representatives and relevant initiatives and organizations, with the guidance of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation;
(b) To facilitate, in cooperation with the regional and subregional support centres, relevant organizations and initiatives, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth, capacity-building and development activities to enable Parties to implement the programme of work;
(c) To further develop and strengthen the central portal of the clearing-house mechanism, including by improving accessibility to relevant information, in line with the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism;
(f) To further develop the Bioland tool and build the capacity of Parties to use it effectively for developing or strengthening their national clearing-house mechanism portals in line with the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism and in collaboration with the global coordination entity and regional and subregional support centres, relevant initiatives and Parties that already use the Bioland tool.
B. Knowledge management
Taking note of the programme of work for the clearing-house mechanism (2024–2030) contained in the annex to decision 16/9 A of 1 November 2024, the technical and scientific cooperation mechanism, the communications strategy to support the implementation of the Framework and the enhanced multidimensional approach to planning, monitoring, reporting and review,
Stressing that the capacities to generate, collect, organize and share biodiversity-relevant data are uneven and that developing country Parties in particular, and especially the least developed countries and small island developing States among them, require enhanced international support, through capacity-building and development, technical and scientific cooperation and access to and transfer of technology, to strengthen national information and monitoring systems,
3. Invites Parties to enhance capacity-building and development, scientific and technical cooperation and access to and transfer of technology, which are critical to enabling the implementation of the knowledge management strategy, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation;
4. Takes note of the draft indicative workplan for the knowledge management strategy to support the implementation of the Framework for the period 2025-2030, as contained in document CBD/SBI/4/INF/9;
5. Invites Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, scientific and academic institutions, women and youth representatives, the private sector, other relevant stakeholders and relevant organizations to implement the knowledge management strategy with the effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities and women and youth representatives;
6. Urges Parties, in line with Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention, and invites other Governments and relevant organizations, to provide financial and technical support to biodiversity capacity-building and development activities, taking into consideration the specific situations of developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States among them, and Parties with economies in transition, to implement the knowledge management strategy;
8. Invites the regional and subregional technical and scientific cooperation support centres and the global coordination entity of the technical and scientific cooperation mechanism to support the implementation of the knowledge management strategy in collaboration with the Secretariat, relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth representatives and relevant initiatives;
9. Requests the Executive Secretary, subject to the availability of resources:
(b) To further implement the Knowledge Management for Biodiversity Initiative, in collaboration with the regional and subregional support centres, relevant initiatives, organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, and women and youth representatives, to strengthen the capacities of Parties, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth in knowledge management, including by facilitating the organization of training courses, global workshops, webinars and knowledge fairs and catalysing the establishment and strengthening of biodiversity networks and communities of practice;
(c) To further develop, with the guidance of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation, biodiversity-related vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies and metadata standards through the central portal of the clearing-house mechanism in order to improve the classification, standardization, searchability and retrieval of information on biodiversity, in direct relation with the goals, targets and indicators of the Framework;
(d) To further classify information available on the targets and other elements of the Framework, including the guidance, tools, best practices and lessons learned submitted by Parties and observers in documents CBD/SBSTTA/26/INF/15 and CBD/SBSTTA/26/INF/16/Rev.1, using the appropriate metadata standards and taxonomies as currently defined in the central portal of the clearing-house mechanism of the Convention and the clearing houses of the Protocols;
(e) To submit a report on the implementation of the aforementioned activities for consideration and provision of further guidance by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its sixth meeting and the Conference of the Parties at its seventeenth meeting.
- Body
- Conference of the Parties (COP)
- Meeting
- COP-1621 Oct - 1 Nov, 2024Cali, Colombia
- Actors
- 39 10 Parties 3 Government(s) 2 Global Environment Facility 3 Relevant organizations 13 Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2 Indigenous peoples and local communities 2 Youth 2 Women 1 Private sector 1 Stakeholder(s)
- GBF targets
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31
- Subjects
- 31 31 Knowledge Management
- Decision document
- 16/9 A AND BClearing-house mechanism and knowledge management
- Outcomes
- CBD/SBI/7/INF/12
- Related documents
- CBD/SBI/4/INF/9CBD/SBSTTA/26/INF/15
- Related decisions / recommendations