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11th session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITWG-PGRFA)

18 - 20 April 2023, Rome, Italy

19th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)

24 - 28 July 2023, Rome, Italy

2023 United Nations High-Level Political Forum

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/GD/90794 (2023-004)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points and ABS Focal Points

26th meeting of the Plants Committee (CITES-PC26)

5 - 9 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

2nd CMS Workshop on Conservation Implications of Animal Culture and Social Complexity - Part II

3 - 4 April 2023, Parma, Italy

32nd meeting of the Animals Committee (CITES-AC32)

19 - 23 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

3rd Regional Seminar on the Conservation and Restoration of Sahelo-Saharan Megafauna

14 - 16 March 2023, Agadir, Morocco

45th meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the workshop on strengthening effective implementation and enforcement of the Montreal Protocol

3 - 7 July 2023, Bangkok, Thailand

46th session of the IFAD Governing Council

14 - 15 February 2023, Rome, Italy

4th session of the Integovernmental Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources (ITWG-AqGR) - FAO

21 - 23 February 2023, Rome, Italy

77th meeting of the Standing Committee (CITES)

6 - 10 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

7th session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Forest Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITWG-FGR) - FAO

7 - 9 March 2023, Rome, Italy

8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum)

3 - 4 May 2023, New York, United States of America

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on the New Programme of Work and Institutional Arrangements on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

11 - 13 July 2023, Manaus, Brazil

Recommendation 25/3

Approaches to identifying scientific and technical needs to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including its implications for the programmes of work of the Convention

Bahrain

NR-06

Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop

5 - 6 December 2022, Montreal, Canada

Call for Nominations for a Meeting to develop a Target 3 Partnership, Cambridge, United Kingdom - 2-4 May 2023

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MC/VA/90867 (2023-021)
To: CBD Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Call for Nominations for the Informal Advisory Group for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JG/90829 (2023-014)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives

Call for Nominations for the Technical and Legal Expert Workshops to Review Modalities for Modifying the Descriptions of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas and Describing New Areas, Norway, 20 – 24 November and 23 – 27 November 2023, respectively

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/91257 (2023-096)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives

Call for Submissions: Long-term strategic approach to mainstreaming biodiversity within and across sectors

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/BB/GD/90873 (2023-028)
To: CBD National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant initiatives and stakeholders, cc: Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points

Call for expression of interest to host a regional and/or subregional technical and scientific cooperation support centre to support implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CPA/91150 (2023-080)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points, and relevant organizations and stakeholders

Call for information to support the discussions of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative Workshop on Ocean-related Capacity-building Needs for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 24-28 April 2023, virtual

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JMQ/90790 (2023-022)
To: CBD National Focal Points and CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points from developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives

Call for nominations for a 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

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/LJ/91211 (2023-090)
To: CBD and SBSTTA national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives

Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

Reference: SCBD/OES/DAIN/MB/FD/90892 (2023-025)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CPa/90789 (2023-010)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, and Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

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 (2023-123)
To: CBD focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Capacity-building Workshop on the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-house

11 December 2022, Montreal, Canada

Central role of Traditional Knowledge in protection and sustainable use of biodiversity is reaffirmed at United Nations Biodiversity Convention meetings in Geneva, Switzerland

Central role of Traditional Knowledge in protection and sustainable use of biodiversity is reaffirmed at United Nations Biodiversity Convention meetings in Geneva, Switzerland

Closing statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, for the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, Geneva, 18 November 2023

Closing statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, for the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention, Geneva, 16 November 2023

Closing statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, for the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention, Geneva, 16 November 2023

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91069 (2023-078)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA national focal points

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/90935 (2023-057)
To: CBD national focal points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points

Composition of the Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilization

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/GD/90825 (2023-066)
To: CBD national focal points, Resource Mobilization national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth organizations, relevant organizations and initiatives and relevant stakeholders

Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee on Capacity-building for the Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol

Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/KT/RKi/90801 (2023-042)
To: ABS National Focal Points (or CBD National Focal Points where ABS Focal Points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/ZJ/AB/90837 (2023-030)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points, members of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House, and relevant stakeholders

Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House

Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/MD/NF/90804 (2023-102)
To: ABS National Focal Points

Composition of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CPa/90789 (2023-038)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Composition of the Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/GD/90824 (2023-067)
To: CBD national focal points, Resource Mobilization national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth organizations, relevant organizations and initiatives and relevant stakeholders

Composition of the informal advisory group for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/90829 (2023-065)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, and Marine and Coastal Biodiversity national focal points; relevant organizations; and indigenous peoples and local communities

Consultations on the establishment of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Fund by the Global Environment Facility

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/YX/GT/90953 (2023-041)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points

Council documents on the establishment of the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund by the Global Environment Facility

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/YX/GT/90953 (2023-062)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points

Delegates to UN Biodiversity Convention conclude meeting and provide strong scientific basis to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Delegates to UN Biodiversity Convention conclude meeting and provide strong scientific basis to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Delegates to UN Biodiversity Convention move from agreement to action by concluding COP 15 in Nairobi

Delegates to UN Biodiversity Convention move from agreement to action by concluding COP 15 in Nairobi

Development of a global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

12 - 14 June 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Recommendation 5/2

Digital sequence information on genetic resources