Knowledge Base

World Soil Day

5 December 2023, Bonn, Germany

Webinar to jointly launch the FAO Biodiversity Knowledge Hub on the occasion of the first anniversary of the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - 19 December 2023

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/MK/JG/91440 (2023-131)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Mr. Mojtaba Khayam Nekouei

FAO Council (174th Session)

4 - 8 December 2023, Rome, Italy

International expert workshop on Non-Detriment Findings (NDFs)

4 - 8 December 2023, Nairobi, Kenya

Fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

4 December 2023, Online

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Soil Day, 5 December 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Soil Day, 5 December 2023

Ms. S.T.K.K. Fernando

Mr. Almokhtar Mousa A.Saied

Mr. Sione Akauola

Further submissions of information on risk assessment and risk management of living modified organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/90762 (2023-129)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) , cc: SBSTTA national focal points

Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/CGA/AC/91433 (2023-130)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Second online information session on the global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

30 November 2023, Online

Entities and organizations invited to the second stage of the selection process for regional and/or sub-regional technical and scientific cooperation support centres

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/KT/CPa/91150 (2023-126)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Extension of deadline: Call for nominations of experts for a meeting to develop a methodology for Headline indicator 7.2 (pesticide environmental concentration) under the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 23-24 January 2024 - Rome, Italy

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/91382 (2023-127)
To: CBD focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Extension of deadline: 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 (2023-128)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

First online information session on the global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

29 November 2023, Online

Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF and UNEP Technical Workshop on the GEF Early Action Support Project for the Pacific Countries, 18-26 March 2024 - Nadi, Fiji

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91406 (2023-125)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu

Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

27 November - 1 December 2023, Montreal, Canada

Legal expert workshop to review modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and describing new areas

23 - 27 November 2023, Oslo, Norway

Workshop to develop a road map for supporting the implementation and monitoring of and capacity development for ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

22 - 24 November 2023, Rome, Italy

Integrating traditional and scientific knowledge for biodiversity conservation

21 November 2023, Online

Technical expert workshop to review modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and describing new areas

20 - 24 November 2023, Oslo, Norway

Governments advance discussions on a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources