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"Cancun Commitments and Coalitions for Enhanced Implementation" Preparing for potential pledges of action by countries and partners at the Cancun Meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/DC/85942 (2016-111)
To: CBD, ABS and CPB National Focal Points, and relevant organizations

"Information Note for Participants" and Side-Events Registration for Part Two of the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and concurrent meetings of the Parties to the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/IS/90500 (2022-049)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

10 October 2010 – Nagoya Congress Center closed for one hour

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/74022 (2010-182)
To: All CBD, CPB Focal Points, International Organizations, NGOs, ILCs

The Nagoya Congress Center (NCC) will be temporary closed on Sunday 10 October 2010 from 07:00 a.m. to 08:00 a.m., to allow for a security check. During this period, all participants to the meetings, including media, are not allowed to enter or/and stay in the NCC. Participants are kindly reques ...

11th Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (INC-11)

18 - 24 September 2004, Geneva, Switzerland

12th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (12 MOP)

11 - 15 December 2000, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

12th Meeting of the Task Force for the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds

13 - 15 September 2006, Athens, Greece

14th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the 6th Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

25 - 29 November 2002, Rome, Italy

18th Session of the Panel of Experts on Pesticide Specifications, Registration Requirements, Application Standards and Prior Informed Consent

17 - 19 June 2001, Bangkok, Thailand

196 Governments agree to scale up investments in nature and people towards 2020 and beyond: UN Biodiversity Conference closes in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

29 November 2018 – The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP14) closed tonight with broad international agreement on reversing the global destruction of nature and biodiversity loss threatening all forms of life on Earth.

19th Session of the Panel of Experts on Pesticide Specifications, Registration Requirements, Application Standards and Prior Informed Consent

27 - 29 October 2002, Rome, Italy

1st Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Microbiological Risk Assessment

19 - 23 May 2003, Rome, Italy

2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/GD/87836 (2019-002)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, and ABS Focal Points

2022 United Nations High-Level Political Forum

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/ML/OH/GD/90088 (2022-009)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points and ABS Focal Points

20th Session of the International Rice Commission

23 - 25 July 2002, Bangkok, Thailand

20th Session of the Open-Ended Working Group of Parties to the Montreal Protocol

11 - 14 July 2000, Geneva, Switzerland

26th Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment

10 - 28 September 2001, Geneva, Switzerland

27th Committee on World Food Security (CFS)

28 - 31 May 2001, Rome, Italy

27th Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment

10 - 25 September 2002, Rome, Italy

3rd International Conference on Transgenic Animals (ICTA)

16 - 21 October 2000, Beijing, China

4th Meeting of the Task Force for Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds

27 - 29 September 2000, Paris, France

50th-51st edition of the Quarterly Report on the Administration of the Convention on Biological Diversity (July-December 2010)

52nd edition of the Quarterly Report on the Administration of the Convention on Biological Diversity (January-March 2011).

53rd edition of the Quarterly Report on the Administration of the Convention on Biological Diversity (April-June 2011)

54th edition of the Quarterly Report on the Administration of the Convention on Biological Diversity (July-September 2011)

5th Argentinean Symposium on Plant Biotechnology

20 - 22 October 2002, Buenos Aires, Argentina

6th International Symposium on The Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organism

8 - 13 July 2000, Saskatchewan, Canada

6th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention

20 - 24 May 2002, Geneva, Switzerland

6th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Legally Binding Instrument for Implementing International Action on Certain Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs INC)

17 - 21 June 2002, Geneva, Switzerland

7th Intergovernmental Negoitating Committee (INC) for the PIC Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

30 October - 3 November 2000, Rome, Italy

7th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

10 - 15 October 2002, Beijing, China

8th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC)

8 - 12 October 2001, Rome, Italy

8th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms

26 - 30 September 2004, Montpellier, France

9th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for the PIC Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

21 - 25 October 2002, Geneva, Switzerland

9th International Symposium on the Beiosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (ISBGMO)

23 - 28 September 2006, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea

9th Meeting of the Working Group for the harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology

13 - 15 November 2000, Paris, France

A Framework for Implementing Biosafety Under the Cartagena Protocol: A Tool for Building Capacity

24 - 26 July 2001, Washington D.C., United States of America

A Joint OECD/Russian Federation Workshop on Biosecurity

20 - 22 September 2006, Moscow, Russian Federation

A New International Treaty to Address Damage that may Result from Living Modified Organisms Opens for Signature

Montreal, 7 March 2011 – At a ceremony held today in New York, the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was opened for signature by Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Th ...

A United Nations Conference on the Safe Use of Modern Biotechnology Opens Tomorrow

Nagoya, 10 October, 2010 – A five-day meeting of the governing body of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, known as the “Conference of the Parties serving as meeting of the Parties to the Protocol” (or COP-MOP) opens here Monday at the Nagoya Congress Centre. More than 4,000 delegates, includi ...

AOSIS Workshop on the Biosafety Protocol

4 - 6 December 2000, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Article 9

Acknowledgement of Receipt of Notification

Actions requested as regards to handling, packaging, transport and identification of living modified organisms (paragraph 2(a) Article 18)

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/55076 (2006-060)
To: Relevant organizations

Decision BS-III/10 on the detailed requirements of identification of living modified organisms intended for direct use as food or feed, or for processing as provided under paragraph 2(a) of Article 18 of the Protocol for information and subsequent action, as appropriate. Also inviting to take m ...

Actions requested or invited by the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Biosafety Protocol (COP-MOP/3) as regards handling, packaging, transport and identification of living modified organisms (paragr

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/55013 (2006-052)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

I would like to invite you to submit your views and information as requested in decisions BS-III/8 and BS-III/9 to the Secretariat at your earliest convenience, but no later than 14 December 2007, in order to enable us to prepare synthesis reports of the views and information for consideration b ...

Actions requested or invited by the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Biosafety Protocol (COP-MOP/3) as regards handling, packaging, transport and identification of living modified organisms (paragraphs 2(b) and 2(c) and paragraph 3 of Article 18)

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/55077 (2006-061)
To: Relevant organizations

Decisions BS-III/8 and BS-III/9 on paragraphs 2(b) and 2(c) of Article 18, and paragraph 3 of Article 18, respectively, were adopted by COP‑MOP/3: The notification draws attention to those parts of the decisions where organizations are invited to provide views and/or information for synthesis b ...

Actions requested or invited by the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Biosafety Protocol (COP-MOP/3) as regards to handling, packaging, transport and identification of living modified organisms (par

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/55012 (2006-051)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

I would like to invite you to take measures towards implementing decision BS-III/10, the Curitiba rules, and in particular to submit the information requested under paragraphs 2 and 11 of the decision to the Secretariat at your earliest convenience, but no later than 14 December 2007, in order t ...

Activities of the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and nomination of experts

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/MW/87111 (2018-009)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points; CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated); relevant organizations; and indigenous peoples and local communities

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group Meeting on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

17 - 21 February 2014, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group Meeting on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

9 - 13 October 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group Meeting on the Second Assessment and Review of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

14 - 16 May 2012, Vienna, Austria

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

25 - 29 July 2016, Mexico City, Mexico