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Web Announcement
#47835
2008-05-26

Urban Biodiversity and the Role of Cities in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use discussed at Bonn Biodiversity Conference.

Web Announcement
#60423
2009-06-11

Updating or Revision of the Strategic Plan of the Convention.

Web Announcement
#111171
2016-12-01

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, following consultation with the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, announced the appointment of Cristiana Paşca Palmer of Romania as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Ms. Paşca Palmer will succeed Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias of Brazil, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his continued commitment and contribution to the Convention on Biological Diversity in his capacity as Executive Secretary.

Web Announcement
#85217
2012-01-20

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, a national of Brazil, as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Assistant Secretary-General level.

Web Announcement
#101239
2014-10-06

Under the theme, “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development,” thousands of representatives of governments, NGOs, indigenous peoples, scientists and the private sector gathered in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea for the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity(COP 12)

Web Announcement
#95481
2013-09-10

Under the theme, 10 Years of Promoting Safety in the Use of Biotechnology, the international community is marking the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the international agreement governing the movement of living modified organisms (LMOs) across national borders – the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Protocol entered into force on 11 September 2003 ninety days after 50 countries agreed to be bound by it.

Web Announcement
#109083
2016-07-04

Uganda, a country renowned for its rich biodiversity, is taking strides to integrate gender considerations into its national policies, plans and programmes to implement its obligations under the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.

Web Announcement
#98644
2014-04-22

US$ 4.43 billion has been pledged by 30 donor countries for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support developing countries' efforts over the next four years to prevent degradation of the global environment.

Web Announcement
#125449
2020-08-23

UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 New Launch Date: Tuesday, 15 September

Web Announcement
#67098
2010-01-22

UNESCO/Convention on Biological Diversity Press Release: Preserving Biodiversity: A Vital Challenge.

Web Announcement
#50898
2008-09-05

UNESCO Director-General meets with the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Web Announcement
#22343
2006-06-08

UNEP's Fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4) Draft 1 Review Process is underway. This is an open process and all interested stakeholders are encouraged to participate. The deadline for sending comments to UNEP is 15 July 2006 and those who provide substantive written comments will receive a free copy of the report.

Web Announcement
#75267
2010-11-16

UNEP Press Release: Jamaica School Children Help Celebrate United Nations International Year of Biodiversity.

Web Announcement
#80932
2011-07-27

UN decades on biodiversity and desertification launched in Addis Ababa Addis Ababa/Montreal, 27 July 2011 – The United Nations system joined together at the offices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa on 22 July 2011 for the regional launch for Africa of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB) and to mark the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (UNDDD), two initiatives that have taken on even greater significance in the light of the devastating drought and famine that have recently struck the Horn of Africa and which is affecting an estimated 13 million people.

Web Announcement
#73539
2010-09-22

UN Press Release: Secretary-General at High-Level Meeting, Stresses Urgent Need to Reverse Alarming Rate of Biodiversity Loss, Rescue 'Natural Economy'. Conservation Inseparable from Fight against Poverty, Says General Assembly President, as Thematic Panels Discuss Way Forward.

Web Announcement
#68134
2010-03-01

UN Press Release: Japanese Singer Misia Appointed Honorary Ambassador for Tenth Conference of Parties to UN Convention on Biodiversity, in Nagoya, 18-29 October.

Web Announcement
#125420
2020-06-03

UN Biodiversity lead welcomes new head of Global Environment Facility

Web Announcement
#135557
2022-10-10

UN Biodiversity Lab Sets Out on a Data Mission to Protect People and Plane

Web Announcement
#128749
2021-05-21

UN Biodiversity Convention’s two subsidiary bodies holding virtual meetings over May and June.

Web Announcement
#127120
2021-02-16

UN Biodiversity Convention’s science body holds online informal session to exchange views on key biodiversity issues

Web Announcement
#125698
2020-11-13

UN Biodiversity Convention’s Conference of the Parties holds three extraordinary meetings to address urgent programmatic matter for 2021

Web Announcement
#132458
2022-01-12

UN Biodiversity Convention to host series of webinars prior to the resumed sessions of its two subsidiary bodies and working group on post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Web Announcement
#132029
2021-12-02

UN Biodiversity Convention postpones in-person resumed sessions of its two subsidiary bodies and working group on post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

Web Announcement
#129311
2021-06-14

UN Biodiversity Convention pauses virtual meetings essential to development of post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Web Announcement
#125417
2020-05-29

UN Biodiversity Convention on track to develop ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

Web Announcement
#128385
2021-05-02

UN Biodiversity Convention holds virtual meetings essential to development of post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Web Announcement
#127997
2021-04-09

UN Biodiversity Convention confirms dates for subsidiary body meetings critical to development of post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Web Announcement
#133884
2022-03-31

UN Biodiversity Convention announces slogan for the 2022 International Day for Biological Diversity

Web Announcement
#125914
2020-11-27

UN Biodiversity Convention adopts 2021 interim budget

Web Announcement
#47736
2008-05-22

UN Biodiversity Convention Secretariat teams up with Europe’s Bern Convention to stop the lost of biodiversity in Europe.

Web Announcement
#125813
2020-11-20

UN Biodiversity Conference’s extraordinary meetings to resume next week

Web Announcement
#130716
2021-10-13

UN Biodiversity Conference’s High-Level Segment sees creation of Kunming Biodiversity Fund, adoption of Kunming Declaration, building political impetus for adoption of ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Web Announcement
#128384
2021-05-02

UN Biodiversity Conference virtual meetings to address key Cartagena Protocol Biosafety issues

Web Announcement
#125005
2020-04-02

Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) permanent subsidiary bodies originally scheduled for May 2020 and then rescheduled for August/September 2020 will now take place in August 2020.

Web Announcement
#122293
2019-09-19

Two major pieces of research reveal the clear and present danger biodiversity loss and climate change pose to the health, security and well-being of humanity.

Web Announcement
#124022
2020-01-29

Twenty years ago, on 29 January 2000, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol entered into force on 11 September 2003.

Web Announcement
#26918
2006-11-10

Tunisia donates mosaic to the Museum of Nature and Culture of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

<br>(View also the press release in <a href="/doc/press/2006/pr-2006-11-10-tunisia-fr.pdf">French</a>.)

Web Announcement
#20937
2006-04-05

Tree Planting Initiatives Planned to Offset Environmental Impacts of Biodiversity Meetings

Following three weeks of meetings of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held in Curitiba, Brazil, the Governor of the State of Paraná, Mr. Roberto Requião, and the Executive Secretary of the Convention, Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, signed an agre ...

Web Announcement
#31847
2007-04-19

Training Programme prior to the Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI-2), on 8 July 2007, Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle, 57, rue Cuvier, Paris, 5th District.

Web Announcement
#31846
2007-04-19

Training Course, Workshops and Guided Tours for the Participants to the Twelfth Meeting of SBSTTA, on 1 July 2007, Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle, 57, rue Cuvier, Paris, 5th District.

Web Announcement
#135795
2023-11-10

Traditional Knowledge at the centre of discussions for the upcoming meeting of the United Nations Biodiversity Convention, Geneva, Switzerland

Web Announcement
#32676
2007-05-11

Toyota has begun accepting applications to its Environmental Activities Grant Program for financial year 2007 on 27 April 2007

Web Announcement
#48789
2008-06-30

Towards a Strategic Partnership with Civil Aviation for Protecting Life on Earth.

Web Announcement
#43153
2008-01-23

Towards a CBD Gender Plan of Action

Web Announcement
#114638
2017-09-27

Tourism is central to economies around the world.

Web Announcement
#31045
2007-03-20

Top Officials from Australia Visit the Secretariat—Australia to Review its National Biodiversity Strategy.

Web Announcement
#20654
2006-03-27

Top Natural History Centers Target the 2010 Biodiversity Target

A new alliance of some of the world’s top research centres and agencies specializing in biodiversity was today enlisted in the battle to save life on Earth.

Web Announcement
#102209
2014-12-11

Today, the Minister of Environment of the Republic of Korea presented United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with three major outcomes of the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on the role of biodiversity for sustainable development, for transmittal to the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Web Announcement
#104584
2015-07-16

Today, a new report released by The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health has underlined that human health rests on a healthy environment and rich biodiversity. The report ”Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch”, shows us how the health and well-being of future generations is being jeopardised by the unprecedented degradation of the planet’s natural resources and ecological systems.

Web Announcement
#116164
2018-03-03

Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day. CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) has chosen the theme of “Big cats: predators under threat.”

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