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Statement from Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, 6 October 2008.

Statement of Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Fourth Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Ministers’ Meeting, 27 - 29 January 2015, Nyipyitaw, Myanmar

Statement of Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Fourth Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Ministers’ Meeting, 27 - 29 January 2015, Nyipyitaw, Myanmar

Statement of the CBD Executive Secretary, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, 12 September 2015

Strategic Partnership between Portugal and Africa for Promoting Biodiversity for Development Launched in Nairobi

A Memorandum of Cooperation to enhance human and institutional capacities in Africa for the effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was signed in Nairobi at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ...

Strategic Partnership between Portugal and Africa for Promoting Biodiversity for Development Launched in Nairobi.

<br>View also the press release <a href='/doc/press/2007/pr-2007-02-07-nepad-fr.pdf'>in French</a> and <a href='/doc/press/2007/pr-2007-02-07-nepad-pt.pdf'>in Portuguese</a>.

Strategic Partnership between Portugal and Africa.

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/57364 (2007-018)
To: CBD, CPB, SBSTTA and ABS Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to enhance human and institutional capacities in Africa for the effective implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was signed on 7 February 2007 in Nairobi at the margi ...

Strategic Partnership with ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity to protect 20 per cent of the Biodiversity of Planet Earth

Montreal 21 June 2008. Despite occupying only three per cent of the Earth’s surface, the ten member States of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) host 20 per cent of the all known species. South-East Asia has one third of all coral reefs in the world. Forty-five per cent of th ...

Strategic Partnership with ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity to protect 20 per cent of the Biodiversity of Planet Earth.

Strengthening of Partnerships through Synergies between the UNCCD and the Convention on Biological Diversity

Sub-regional Capacity-building Workshop on Financial Reporting and Resource Mobilization for the Pacific Region

5 - 6 October 2015, Avarua, Cook Islands

Supported by UNEP, The MEA Information and Knowledge Management Initiative includes 40 global and regional agreements from 14 secretariats hosted by 4 UN organizations and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This initiative targeting Parties and the environment community at large facilitates access to relevant MEA information from one central location: InforMEA, the United Nations Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

Survey on capacity-building and awareness-raising needs for cooperation among multilateral environmental agreements at the national level: Invitation to complete a questionnaire

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/NP/CR/85154 (2015-127)
To: All CBD National Focal Points

TEEB Appoints the Executive Secretary to its Advisory Board

Copenhagen, 15 December 2009. On 27 November 2009, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), was appointed, with immediate effect, to serve on the Advisory Board of the initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB).

Tenth Meeting of the Joint Liaison Group of the Rio Conventions

Montreal, 30 September 2010 - The tenth meeting of the Joint Liaison Group of the Rio Conventions was convened in New York on 23 September under the chairmanship of Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), at the margins of the high-level meeting on bi ...

Terms of Reference and Summary Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the Joint Liaison Group of the Rio Conventions

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SK/ac/83002 (2013-119)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership and the Aichi Targets – Updates on progress at the global, regional and national level

The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership is actively working to support implementation of the recommendations of SBSTTA 15/1 at global, regional and national scales with respect to indicator development and use. This side event supports Agenda Item 3, ‘Implementation of the Strategic Plan for Bi ...

The Chartered Insitution of Water and Environment Management (CIWEM) Annual Conference 2009 - Water and the Global Environment

21 - 23 May 2009, Toronto, Canada

The City of Montreal signs a memorandum of understanding with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

<br>View also the press release <a href='/doc/press/2007/pr-2007-02-22-mou-fr.pdf'>in French</a>.

The City of Montreal signs a memorandum of understanding with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Montreal, 22 February 2007 – The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the City of Montreal today signed a memorandum of understanding officially linking Montreal’s Nature Museums with the Steering Committee of the Secretariat’s Consortium of Scientific Institutions and Partn ...

The Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) welcomes the United Nations General Assembly decision to proclaim 3 March as World Wildlife Day, as a means of celebrating the importance of the world’s flora and fauna, strengthening efforts to conserve biodiversity and stepping up the fight against the illegal trade in wildlife.

The Convention on Biological Diversity Hails the Nomination of Ms. Monique Barbut to Head the Global Environment Facility.

The unanimous appointment by the Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) of Ms. Monique Barbut as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman is most timely.<br><br><table width=120> <tr><b>Other languages:</b></tr> <tr><td>French </td><td><a href="/doc/press/2006/pr-2006-06-09-gef-fr.pdf" ...

The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Global Environment Facility Partnering for Advancing the Nagoya Outcomes at the Regional Level

Montreal, 22 February 2011: The Central African national focal points for the Convention on Biological Diversity and those of its financial arm, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), jointly attended a regional workshop on biodiversity and finance, held in Kinshasa in collaboration with the GEF ...

The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands raise the bar on cooperation between multilateral environment agreements

Montreal - 9 January 2007, Mr. Peter Bridgewater, Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), set ground-breaking standards for collaboration between multilateral environment agreements throu ...

The EIB and UNEP strengthen their cooperation to enhance climate and environmental actions

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today agreed to deepen their cooperation to enhance climate and environmental actions.

The EU's outermost regions: strengthened partnership bears fruit

Today the European Commission adopted a report on progress made under the 2017 Strategic Partnership with the EU's outermost regions, which strengthened the cooperation between the EU outermost regions, the respective Member States and the European Commission.

The Executive Secretaries of the Biological Diversity, Climate Change, and Desertification Conventions are calling for the establishment of a Facility to secure finance for large projects that will help to address common issues.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), today released a technical document that provides guidance on mainstreaming ecosystem services and biodiversity into agricultural production and management in the Pacific Islands.

The GBIF Secretariat is pleased to announce that the 2015 call for proposals of the GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme is now open. This programme provides co-funding to GBIF Participants in support of international collaborative projects targeting capacity enhancement and exchange. The 2015 call for proposals document is available. Please note that the submission of proposals is a two-stage process and the first deadline (for short concept notes) is 3 March 2015.

The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: a 10-year roadmap for biodiversity intelligence

In July 2012, the Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC) in Copenhagen brought together more than 100 invited experts from the fields of biodiversity informatics, genomics, earth observation, natural history collections, biodiversity research and policy. During three days of cross-dis ...

The Global Youth Biodiversity Network and CBD in a Nutshell - A Guidebook to the CBD process

Reference: SCBD/MCO/NP/CR/86279 (2017-011)
To: CBD Focal Points and relevant organizations

The Group of 77 Initiates the Preparation of a Multi-Year Plan of Action for South-South Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development

Montreal, 29 October 2009 – The Group of 77 and China have initiated, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a major initiative aimed at preparing a Multi-Year Plan of Action to promote South-South cooperation in support to the three objectives of the Conv ...

The Group of 77 and China propose a Multi-Year Plan of Action for South-South Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development for adoption at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties

Nagoya, 20 October 2010 –At the First Forum on South-South Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development, convened in Nagoya on 17 October, the Group of 77 and China unanimously adopted a draft Multi-Year Plan of Action on South-Couth Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development.<br><a href='http:/ ...

Recommendation XVIII/9

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

The International Plant Protection Convention joins the Liaison Group of the Biodiversity-related Conventions

Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/NP/83878 (2014-114)
To: CBD, SBSTTA Focal Points and International Organizations

The International Soil Congress 2019 on "Successful Transformation toward Land Degradation Neutrality: Future Perspective"

17 - 19 June 2019, Ankara, Türkiye

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China support the adoption of the Multi-Year Plan of Action on South-South Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Montreal, 1 October 2010 –At the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 28 September 2010, the 131 Ministers or representatives welcomed the draft Multi-Year Plan of Action for South-So ...

The Preparation of the Global City and Biodiversity Outlook launched

Montreal, 15 September 2011 – In the context of the Second Meeting on the Implementation of the Plan of Action on Sub-National Governments, Cities and Other Local Authorities on Biodiversity, held in Bonn, Germany, from 4 to 6 September 2011, Stockholm University (SU), through the Stockholm Resi ...

The Republic of Korea and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), with the purpose of promoting technical and scientific co-operation and to support achievement of the goals and targets of the Convention, have today signed a funding agreement for the implementation of the 2015-2020 Bio-Bridge Initiative.

The Second Expert Meeting for South-South Cooperation on Biodiversity for Development

29 - 30 May 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity (SCBD) and WWF International have signed an MoU to collaborate in implementing CBD’s Global Communications Strategy together with CBD Parties, partners and the broader conservation community to achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 1 (ABT1) by 2020.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Future Earth today agreed to strengthen their collaboration around a number of key areas.

The Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention joins forces for the implementation of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Montreal, 19 September 2011- Demonstrating the continued and growing collaboration on the biodiversity and water agendas, Anada Tiéga, Secretary-General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, paid a visit to the seat of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ...

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

The nineteenth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 19) to the UNCCD. (Online daily from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Central European Time (CET).

15 - 19 March 2021, Online, Bonn, Germany

The partnership for Yellow Sea between local governments, NGOs, GEF and corporate

This meeting gives an introduction to emerging multiple layers of partnerships at international as well as local levels from diverse sectors including international organizations, local governments, NGOs as well as the corporate sector for conservation and management of biodiversity of the Yello ...

The signature on 15 November 2014 of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations will ensure joint implementation of the Pacific region’s Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in the Pacific Island Region 2014-2020, and the CBD Strategic Plan for Biological Diversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-16), the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-11) and the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-11)

1 - 12 May 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

The statement by Dr. Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary To the tenth session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

The two-year wait is over! Amidst the beating sun of Sharm-el-Sheikh comes a project from the cold, dark winter of Northern Europe.