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Brainstorming Meeting on Scientific Assessment for the CBD

Coloque international des spécialistes francophones en évaluation d’impacts

22 - 24 May 2000, Paris, France

Global Invasive Species Programme Synthesis

18 - 22 September 2000, Cape Town, South Africa

7th International Congress on Ethnobiology

23 - 27 October 2000, Athens, United States of America

Board of the Millennium Assessment

10 March 2001, Montreal, Canada

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/6/9/ADD1

Scientific assessments<br>Report of the brainstorming meeting on scientific assessment, Oslo, 17-19 November 1999

4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to EUROBATS

22 - 24 September 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria

UNEP/CBD/COP/5/INF/1

Operations of the Convention<br>Report of the Brainstorming Meeting on Scientific Assessment (Oslo, Norway, 17-19 November 1999)

“Loss of biodiversity threatens human well-being” says the Head of Biodiversity Convention

“To protect vital ecosystem services, countries must make a stronger effort to substantially reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity,” urged Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Meeting on Observational Priorities for Conservation and Biodiversity

3 - 4 November 2005, Washington, United States of America

Second Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Consortium of Scientific Partners and Institutions

17 October 2007, Paris, France

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Workshop on Capacity-Building and Exchange of Experiences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of LMOs

10 - 12 December 2007, Bridgetown, Barbados

International Scientific Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions

10 - 12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

Second Ad hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-stakeholder meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES)

5 - 9 October 2009, Nairobi, Kenya

Expert Workshop on Scientific and Technical Aspects relevant to Environmental Impact Assessment in Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

18 - 20 November 2009, Manila, Philippines

The Census of Marine Life: A New Scientific Baseline for Policy

The Census of Marine Life, a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans will be released in October 2010. This unprecedented effort involved over 2500 scientists from 80 countries and spanned all realms of the ocean, from ...

CONTRIBUTION OF ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES TO BIODIVERSITY SURVEY AND CLIMATE CHANGE MONITORING-1 (FEAT. JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY)

Contribution of artificial satellites to biodiversity survey and climate change monitoring (the first part). Current plan on the topic is as followed: Lecture on highlighting the contribution of artificial satellites to REDD-plus including forest monitoring and greenhouse gases monitoring.

Fourth meeting of the Chairs of the Scientific Advisory Bodies of the Biodiversity-related Conventions (CSAB)

13 - 14 February 2011, Gland, Switzerland

Third meeting of the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Living Modified Organisms

30 May - 3 June 2011, Mexico City, Mexico

Caribbean Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms

26 - 30 September 2011, Belize City, Belize

Workshop on Capacity-building for research and information exchange on socio-economic impacts of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

14 - 16 November 2011, New Delhi, India

Meeting of the Sub-working Groups of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

13 - 15 February 2012, Bonn, Germany

Third Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Latin America and the Caribbean

11 - 12 April 2012, Online

Third Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: WEOG and CEE

12 - 13 April 2012, Online

Third Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Africa

17 - 18 April 2012, Online

Third Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Asia and the Pacific

19 - 20 April 2012, Online

Meeting the CBD targets 11: state of play of Marine Reserves globally and role of India

Marine species are in decline, habitats are being destroyed and degraded by unsustainable activities, and progress towards meeting the CBD target of 10% marine protected areas by 2020 is seriously lagging behind that on land. According to the World Database on Protected Areas (2011), 12.7% of th ...

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

2 - 6 June 2014, Bonn, Germany

The Science behind GBO4 - Introducing the Technical Support Document

A number of chapter lead authors of the GBO4 technical support document will introduce delegates to the different lines of evidence used for the assessment of the state of biodiversity. They will also provide more detailed information on findings and country case studies related to specific targ ...

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

16 - 20 November 2015, Brasilia, Brazil

Group on Earth Observations establishes National Contact Points for Data Sharing

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/85940 (2016-105)
To: CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points

Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Call for comments on the draft scoping report for the thematic assessment of the sustainable use of biodiversity and release of assessments on scenarios and models and on pollinators, pollination and food production

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/85952 (2016-106)
To: CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points, and relevant organizations

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Regional consultations and stakeholder day (IPBES-5)

6 March 2017, Bonn, Germany

Fifth Session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-5)

7 - 10 March 2017, Bonn, Germany

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Expert review of the second order drafts of the IPBES thematic assessment on land degradation and restoration and of the four regional assessments on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/KM/85598 (2017-038)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

First External Review for the IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/MC/85598 (2017-053)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

International Congress for Conservation Biology: "Insights for Sustaining Life on Earth"

23 - 27 July 2017, Cartagena, Colombia

46th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and WGI-13/WGII-11/WGIII-13

6 - 10 September 2017, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary, said: “These assessments are sobering. They show that the pressures on biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services from human activities, including climate change, are increasing. They show that the status of biodiversity is decreasing. They show that while the world is taking actions, more needs to be done to halt the loss of biodiversity.”

Scientific assessments by Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) confirm need for imperative actions to safeguard life on Earth

23 March 2018 - Landmark regional scientific reports were issued today in Colombia on the status of biodiversity in the following regions of the world: the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa as well as Europe and Central Asia. They show that pressures on biodiversity and resulting loss of b ...

Workshop on the outcomes of the sixth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

30 June - 1 July 2018, Montreal, Canada

A global platform for sharing information about the world’s biodiversity has passed a major milestone, with the publication of the one-billionth species record of where a species lives through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Big data for biodiversity: Global Biodiversity Information Facility surpasses one billion

9 July 2018 – A global platform for sharing information about the world’s biodiversity has passed a major milestone, with the publication of the one-billionth species record of where a species lives through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6)

21 - 24 January 2019, Nairobi, Kenya

Second Global Session of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment

8 - 10 March 2019

The fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-14), the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-9) and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-9)

29 April - 10 May 2019, Geneva, Switzerland

International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation General Assembly

2 - 4 May 2019, Windhoek, Namibia

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/AC/88272 (2019-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations

85th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol

25 - 29 May 2020, Montreal, Canada

53rd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

6 - 10 October 2020