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8th Session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-8 Plenary)

14 - 24 June 2021, Online, Bonn, Germany

8th Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MoP8) of the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats

8 - 10 October 2018, Monte Carlo, Monaco

8th session of the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly (FAO)

4 - 5 June 2020, Rome, Italy

8th technical assessment of REDD+ forest reference (emission) levels (UNFCCC)

22 - 26 March 2021, Online/ virtual, Bonn, Germany

9th Session Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

9 - 12 May 2022, New Delhi, India

A new era of living in harmony with Nature is born at the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Nagoya, Japan 29 October 2010. Some 18,000 participants representing the 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and their partners closed the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit by adopting historic decisions that will permit the community of nations to meet the unprecedented challe ...

ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity

21 - 23 October 2009, Singapore, Singapore

ASEAN joins second round of negotiations for new global biodiversity framework

The ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) took part in the second round of negotiations over the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which pushed through despite reports of an outbreak of COVID-19 in northern Italy.

Article 15

Access to Genetic Resources

Article 16

Access to and Transfer of technology

Article 35

Accession

Achieving global biodiversity targets will be a strong contribution to realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, said Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, newly appointed Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, in a meeting held last Friday.

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

17 - 20 March 2020, Online

Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Biological Diversity

24 June - 3 July 1991, Madrid, Spain

Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Biological Diversity

25 February - 6 March 1991, Nairobi, Kenya

Ad hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES)

10 - 12 November 2008, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Addendum to the Proposed Budget for the Programme of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the Biennium 2009-2010

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63973 (2008-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points

The purpose of this Notification is to inform you that an Addendum to the document “Proposed Budget for the Programme of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the Biennium 2009-2010” (reference: UNEP/CBD/COP/9/27/ADD2) is available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/d ...

Address by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Research Workshop of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Ottawa, Canada, 19 April 2007

It’s a great honor to join you today and to be given the opportunity to address this important gathering of distinguished scholars from all over the world to discuss the conceptualization and planning of future research to be undertaken in the field of environmental law.

Address by Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Research Workshop of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Ottawa, Canada, 19 April 2007.

Address by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf on the occasion "the Biodiversity Debate: Engaging and Educating Children on Biodiversity as the Future Guardians of our Planet", held on 3 September 2009 at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK

Address by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf on the occasion "the Biodiversity Debate: Engaging and Educating Children on Biodiversity as the Future Guardians of our Planet", held on 3 September 2009 at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK.

Article 30

Adoption and Amendment of Annexes

Article 28

Adoption of Protocols

Adoption of an interim budget for 2021 by the extraordinary meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the meetings of the Parties to the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/89067 (2020-093)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, indigenous peoples and local communities, and other stakeholders

Africa Environment Day and Wangari Maathai Day

3 March 2017

African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.

African Regional Workshop on strengthening capacities for the integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress and the Convention on Biological Diversity

19 - 23 February 2018, Lilongwe, Malawi

African ministers adopt a Pan-African action agenda on ecosystem restoration: Agree to build momentum to implement commitments for biodiversity

15 November 2018 - African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.

After several years of international negotiations, the final operational design of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been agreed.

Agenda for Part One of UN Biodiversity Conference

Montreal, 7 October 2021 – Part One of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) gets underway in Kunming, China, on 11 October 2021. Due to the pandemic situation, this first phase of the conference will be held mostly virtually, with limited onsite participation in Kunming

Recommendation II/8

Agenda item 3.10: Terrestrial biological diversity

Agreements reached on actions to integrate biodiversity in forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism sectors and to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

Agriculture and Rural Development Day

4 December 2010, Cancun, Mexico

Ahmed Djoghlaf assumes duties as Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Calls for a global alliance to combat biodiversity loss.

Montreal, 3 January 2006 – Calling on the citizens of the world to join in the effort to preserve life on earth, a 52 year-old Algerian man with a passion for poetry and forest walks takes up the helm of the world’s key biological treaty today. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, appoin ...

Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010)

Montreal 9 November 2009. Today, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) launched the Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010) to gather views from the broad and diverse groups of biodiversity stakeholders on actions that ...

Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Target (ANIEC 2010)

Reference: SCBD/CHM/ODM/SM/69533 (2009-151)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010) has been launched today to gather opinion from the broad and diverse groups of stakeholders on “how” and “what” actions should be taken in the short and medium term after ...

Article 29

Amendment of the Convention or Protocols

An Enhanced Communication Tool for a New Biodiversity Era - The website of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) enhanced to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity and the International Year of Biodiversity

Montreal, 21 May 2010 – The new look and feel of the website of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be launched on 22 May 2010 to mark the annual celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity.

Annual Accounts – BE, BY, BZ, VB, BG, BH, BI Trust Funds

Reference: SCBD/RMCS/MR-H/85220 (2015-137)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Annual DIVERSITAS Scientfic Committee Meeting

22 - 24 March 2011, Paris, France

Appointment of the new Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/78697 (2012-010)
To: All Focal Points of the Convention and its Cartagena Protocol

April 2009 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/67400 (2009-046)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the April 2009 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2009/mba-2009-04-en.pdf.

April 2010 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/72021 (2010-103)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, Relevant organizations and partners

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the April 2010 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2010/mba-2010-04-en.pdf.

April issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63838 (2008-065)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, SBSTTA Focal Points

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the April issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2008/mba-2008-04-en.pdf.

Arabic version of CBD website inaugurated as a contribution to achieving the objectives of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity

Montreal, 6 June 2011 – The Arabic version of the website of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was launched today at the occasion of the opening of the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair an ...

Article A.II-1

Arbitration

Arrangements for meetings of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

17 March 2020 – Due to the evolving nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has moved to hold many meetings virtually and has postponed others.

As we remember her, let us be inspired by her tireless energy, by her commitment to making a better world for all and by her leadership and vision.

Asia and Pacific leads in preparing for 2010 Nagoya Biodiversity Summit.

Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW) - UNFCCC

24 - 28 August 2020, Yokohama, Japan