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Side Events at the margins of the Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/70474 (2010-036)
To: all CBD National Focal Points and Relevant Organizations

As you are aware the Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held from 18 – 29 October 2010 respectively will take place in Nagoya, Japan. The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the online registration for the above mentioned meetings i ...

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Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

21 October - 1 November 2024, Cali, Colombia

Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/GT/91194 (2023-082)
To: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal Points, ABS focal points

Sixteenth regular session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN)

12 - 16 June 2017, Libreville, Gabon

Sixteenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests

26 - 30 April 2021, Online

Sixth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD

9 - 13 February 2023, Paris, France

Sixth Negotiating Session / Fourth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Convention on Biological Diversity

6 - 15 February 1992, Nairobi, Kenya

Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

12 - 14 November 2012, Rome, Italy

Sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity

1 - 5 February 2010, Trondheim, Norway

Sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity on "Getting the biodiversity targets right - working for sustainable development”, Trondheim, Norway, 1 - 5 February 2010

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/69366 (2009-143)
To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points

The purpose of this notification is to draw your attention to the sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity, entitled "Getting the biodiversity targets right - working for sustainable development", which will be held on 1 - 5 February 2010 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference will be hosted by ...

Sixth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity on "Getting the biodiversity targets right - working for sustainable development”, Trondheim, Norway, 1 - 5 February 2010

Sixth World Fisheries Congress

7 - 11 May 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing (ITPGRFA)

13 - 17 March 2017, Rome, Italy

Sixth meeting of the Designated National Authorities (DNA) Forum (UNFCCC)

27 - 28 October 2008, Chile

Sixth meeting of the working group on sustainable forest management & workshop on balancing bioenergy production and sustainable forest management in mountain areas

16 - 18 May 2017

Sixty-ninth (69th) session of the Executive Council of the World Meteorological Organization

10 - 17 May 2017, Geneva, Switzerland

Sixty-third Session of UNGA: Adoption of Resolution on CBD

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/65888 (2008-167)
To: All National Focal Points to the Convention on Biological Diversity, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the resolution on “Sustainable Development: Convention on Biological Diversity”, adopted on 19 December 2008 by the Sixty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) under Agenda item 49 (f), is available at the following Secretariat we ...

Society for Conservation Biology: 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2019)

21 - 25 July 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Somalia to Become the 193rd Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that Somalia has deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention on Biological Diversity and will become the 193rd Party to the Convention as of 10 December 2009. As a major biodiversity hotspot in the Horn of Africa, Somalia’s accession is a major ...

Somalia to become the 193rd Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/69228 (2009-136)
To: All CBD National Focal Points

It is my pleasure to inform you that Somalia deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention on Biological Diversity and will become the 193rd Party to the Convention as of 10 December 2009. The communiqué issued on the occasion of this event is available on our website at: http://www.cb ...

South Africa 12th state to ratify Nagoya Protocol

South Africa 12th state to ratify Nagoya Protocol

Montreal, 28 January 2013 – South Africa has become the 12th country, and the first in 2013, to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

South Sudan becomes 194th Party to Convention on Biological Diversity

Montreal, 7 March 2014 – South Sudan deposited its instrument of accession to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on 17 February 2014, thus becoming the 194th Party to the global treaty on biodiversity and sustainable development. With this accession, the CBD will enter into force for S ...

South-South Cooperation on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/STTM/OH/SG/VA/56219 (2006-108)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Notification SCBD/STTM/OH/SG/VA/56219 informs Parties about the brainstorming session on South-South cooperation on biodiversity in Montreal, 6-8 November, 2006, and invites them to submit contributions on a multi-year plan of action for South-South cooperation by 31 January 2007.<br> (Available ...

Southern Africa Workshop on Biodiversity and Finance

4 November 2011, Cape Town, South Africa

Special Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5): 50th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme 1972-2022 (UNEP@50)

3 - 4 March 2022, Nairobi, Kenya

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf at the Meeting of the Network of Women Ministers of Environment, Nairobi, 7 February 2007.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf at the Ministerial Panel Discussion on Globalization and the Environment at the Twenty-fourth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC-24/GMEF), Nairobi, 6 February 2007

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf at the Ministerial Panel Discussion on United Nations Reform at the Twenty-Fourth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC-24/GMEF), Nairobi, 7 February 2007.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf to the Twenty-Fourth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC-24/GMEF), Nairobi, 7 February 2007.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Second Committee, New York, 1 November 2010

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, at the Opening Session of the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya, 18 October 2010.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of World Health Day 2011, 6 April 2011

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of World Health Day 2011, 6 April 2011.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary,on the occasion of the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Second Committee, New York, 1 November 2010.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Second Committee at the Sixty-Third Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York, 27 October 2008

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Closure of the High Level Segment of the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity at the Closure of the High Level Segment of the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Second Committee at the Sixty-Third Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York, 27 October 2008.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the BIO International Convention , Boston, United States of America, 8 May, 2007

Here in Boston at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, paint that can kill influenza viruses and wipe out 99% of bacteria is being tested and could be used very soon in the hospitals. The same institute, in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong, has developed a nano liquid that c ...

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the BIO International Convention , Boston, United States of America, 8 May, 2007.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Meeting of the Network of Women Ministers of Environment, Nairobi, 7 February 2007

In the majority of countries, the survival of women, their well-being and empowerment depend on biodiversity. For women in developing countries, in particular in the least developed countries, their survival, and that of their households and communities, depends on access and control to natural ...

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Ministerial Panel Discussion on Globalization and the Environment at the Twenty-fourth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC-24/GMEF), Nairobi, 6 February 2007

Introduced in the early years of the European settlement as a stock for the fur industry, the Brushtail Possum has become today a major environmental, economic and cultural threat to New Zealand. At the kind invitation of the Honorable Winston Peter, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I had the ...

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Ministerial Panel Discussion on United Nations Reform at the Twenty-Fourth Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC-24/GMEF), Nairobi, 7 February 2007

In 1945, in San Francisco, the United Nations Organization was established in response to people’s cry for international peace and security in the aftermath of the most devastating war waged by humanity against itself. It was also established based on the strong conviction of its founders tha ...

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Environment Day Celebration under the Theme “Many Species- One Planet –One Future”, Kigali, 3 June 2010

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Environment Day Celebration under the Theme “Many Species- One Planet –One Future”, Kigali, 3 June 2010.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Asean Conference on Biodiversity 2009, 21 October 2009, Singapore

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Asean Conference on Biodiversity 2009, 21 October 2009, Singapore.

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Fifth Intergovernmental Conference on Biodiversity in Europe, 22 September 2009, Liège, Belgium.