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Decision COP II/9
UNEP/CBD/COP/DEC/II/9

FORESTS AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

The Conference of the Parties,
Operational Implemented Retired OTHERS
1. Decides to invite its President to transmit the Statement contained in the annex to this decision to the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests at its second meeting;
2.Requests the Executive Secretary:
Operational Active Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity
(a) To provide advice and information pertaining to the relationship between indigenous and local communities and forests, as invited by the Inter-Agency Task Force of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests;
Operational Implemented Retired
(b) To commission and carry out work on forests and biological diversity, with a view to producing a background document on the links between forests and biological diversity in order to consider, at its third meeting, whether further input to the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests is required, and to transmit this document to the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests for information;
Operational Implemented Parties OTHERS Other Government(s) Indigenous peoples and local communities
(c) To invite all Parties, relevant intergovernmental agencies and bodies to contribute to the preparation of the documents on forests and biological diversity to be prepared by the Executive Secretary, and to welcome the input of other Governments, non-governmental organizations and indigenous and local communities;
Operational Active Parties
3. Invites all Parties to include expertise on forest biological diversity in their delegations to the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests;
Operational Implemented Retired OTHERS
4. Invites the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests to communicate progress on issues relevant to forests and biological diversity to the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
Body
Conference of the Parties (COP)

Meeting
COP-02
Second Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
6 - 17 November, 1995
Jakarta, Indonesia

Timeline
Decision document
II/9
FORESTS AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
Related documents
UNEP/CBD/COP/6/INF/17
Strategic plan, national reporting and operations of the Convention on Biological Diversity<br />Review of the status of the decisions of the Conference of the Parties
Related decisions / recommendations
VI/27 B para 3
Operations of the Convention
III/12
Programme of work for terrestrial biological diversity: forest biological diversity