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Launch of UN Biodiversity Lab 2.0: Spatial data and the future of our planet

New York, Oct 4 – The UN Biodiversity Lab (UNBL) 2.0 was launched today at Day 1 of the Nature for Life Hub. The UNBL 2.0 is a free, open-source platform that enables governments and others to access state-of-the-art maps and data on nature, climate change, and human development in new ways to g ...

Launch of the online reporting tool for submitting national targets

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/91353 (2023-117)
To: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, SBSTTA focal points

Launch of the upcoming ‘Global Biodiversity Framework Early Action Support Project’ (GBF-EAS Project) and Help Desk

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/JC/MC/90393 (2022-040)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Liaison Group meeting on indicators for assessing progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target

18 October 2004, Montreal, Canada

Message from Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf to the International Expert Seminar on Indicators Relevant to Indigenous Peoples, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the MDGS, Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines, 5 March 2007

Message from Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf to the International Expert Seminar on Indicators Relevant to Indigenous Peoples, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the MDGS, Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines, 5 March 2007

I wish to congratulate the Working Group on Indicators of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) and in particular, its Chair, Ms. Joji Carino, who has worked tirelessly in organizing this important seminar on the indicators relevant to indigenous peoples and the Convention on ...

Moderated online discussions on the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/KM/91012 (2023-054)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Recommendation IX/10

Monitoring and indicators: designing national-level monitoring programmes and indicators

New OECD work on: Indicators to Monitor Progress on Aichi Target 3 (Incentives) and Target 20 (Resource Mobilisation); Designing Effective Biodiversity Offsets; and Finance for Biodiversity

New OECD work on issues of key relevance to the negotations will be released: Indicators to monitor progress on positive and harmful incentives to biodiversity (Aichi Target 3) and on resource mobilisation (Aichi Target 20), including on the OECD DAC Rio Marker on biodiversity. And how to design ...

Nomination for the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Strategic Plan on Biodiversity 2011-2020

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/KM/84452 (2015-034)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, other Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and relevant organizations

Nomination of experts for a technical meeting on indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/JC/KM/90243 (2022-019)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Nomination of experts for the ad hoc technical expert group on indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/KM/90718 (2023-001)
To: CBD Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

OBSERVATION OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY (FEAT. JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE-EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

The human beings live with bio-resources. However, we do not know a proper solution for sustainable use of these bio-resources. The information of ocean biodiversity is still scant.　In the term of the land, detailed analysis and prediction on the biodiversity are necessary to understand the conn ...

Online open consultation to fill gaps in the global indicator framework for the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Reference: (2016-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations

Open Call for Proposals on the Development of Indicators for Aichi Biodiversity Targets 1, 13 and 15

Reference: SCBD/OES/RH/KM/86172 (2016-148)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous and local communities and relevant organizations

Recommendation XI/15

Options for the refinement of the framework of the goals and targets in annex II to decision VII/30

Press Release: The Arctic Biodiversity Assessment Another Wake Up Call for Action.

Production plan for the third edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook and submission of information on biodiversity indicators

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/RH/64593 (2008-099)
To: Organizations participating in the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership

The workplan for preparing GBO-3 has been discussed at the second Technical Partners meeting of the 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership held from 25 to 26 June 2008 in Montreal (see report at www.twentyten.net). An updated preparation schedule is being maintained at www.cbd.int/gbo3/product ...

RESILIENCE ASSESSMENTS AND INDICATORS - DIALOGUE

This event explores resilience principles that can be applied in undertaking assessments of social-ecological resilience at various scales, including the role of biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Methods for conducting resilience assessments, and possible development and monitoring of related ...

Regional Dialogues on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for African Countries, 30 May to 2 June 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91545 (2024-016)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania (United Republic of), Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Regional Dialogues on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for Latin America

25 - 28 June 2024, Lima, Peru

Regional Workshop for Latin America on the Preparation of the Fifth National Report and Indicators

2 - 6 December 2013, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Regional dialogue on national biodiversity strategies and action plans for anglophone African countries

30 May - 2 June 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Regional dialogue on national biodiversity strategies and action plans for francophone African countries

30 May - 2 June 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Report of the AHTEG on indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Reference: SCBD/JM/RH/KM/77281 (2011-163)
To: CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points, Secretariats of biodiversity related conventions and relevant organizations

As you will recall, in decision X/7, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to convene a meeting of an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and to report to the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and ...

Request to submit views on the scientific and technical aspects of the provisional framework of global headline indicators for assessing progress towards the achievement of the 2010 Biodiversity Target

Reference: SCBD/STTM/RH/lj/66780 (2009-031)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points, Other governments, relevant organizations, indigenous and local communities

To facilitate the scientific and technical evaluation of the current set of indicators and draw conclusions for biodiversity monitoring beyond 2010, the World Conservation Monitoring Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC) is carrying out an online survey, which will contr ...

Review of the proposed list of indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/KNM/85187 (2015-130)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Primary National Focal Point to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, National Focal Points on Access and Benefit-sharing, and relevant organizations including the secretariats of the biodiversity-related conventions, indigenous peoples and local communities and members of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership

Review of the use of remotely-sensed data for monitoring biodiversity change and tracking progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/ac/82946 (2013-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, relevant organizations and participants to SBSTTA-17

Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

11 July 2023, Online

Selected experts for the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/KM/90718 (2023-040)
To: CBD Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Selected participants for the expert workshop on the monitoring framework for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework as per SBSTTA Recommendation 24/2, 29 June to 1 July 2022 - Bonn, Germany

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/JC/KM/90243 (2022-033)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Seventeenth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC17) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

28 - 30 January 2019, Georgetown, Guyana

Sixth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD

9 - 13 February 2023, Paris, France

Sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

12 - 15 March 2024, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

South America Capacity-building Workshop on Indicators as part of NBSAP updating

6 - 10 August 2012, Lima, Peru

South Asia Capacity-building Workshop on Indicators as part of NBSAP updating

16 - 19 July 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Southeast Asia Capacity-building Workshop on Indicators as part of NBSAP updating

24 - 28 March 2012, Tam Dao, Viet Nam

Space agencies support to Ramsar/CBD for inland and coastal wetland observation and reporting

The overall objective of the Ramsar convention is the conservation and wise use of wetlands by national actions and international cooperation as a means to achieving sustainable development. According to the UN-CBD, inland water ecosystems are amongst the most threatened ecosystem types. Physica ...

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group Meeting and International Expert Workshop on Indicators for the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, 20 June 2011, High Wycombe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the opening of the Biodiversity Indicator Partnership Technical Partner Meeting, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 25-27 January 2016

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the opening of the Biodiversity Indicator Partnership Technical Partner Meeting, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 25-27 January 2016

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 10 December 2012

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 10 December 2012

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the National Workshop on Indicators and NBSAP for Iraq, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 July 2013

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the National Workshop on Indicators and NBSAP for Iraq, Amman, Jordan, 1-4 July 2013

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity –Building Workshop for the East and South East Asia on Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 11 And 12, Yanji, Jilin Province, China, 15 September 2015

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity –Building Workshop for the East and South East Asia on Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 11 And 12, Yanji, Jilin Province, China, 15 September 2015

Statement by Ms. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, at the closing of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 4 May 2019

Statement by Ms. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, at the closing of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 4 May 2019

Strategic Environmental Planning and Biodiversity Impact Assessment - tools to increase planning efficiency and to reduce conflicts of interests

At the side event innovative planning tools (Strategic Environmental Planning and Biodiversity Impact Assessment) will be presented. The event shall form the official kick-off for a capacity building initiative by GIZ in cooperation with the German Federation for Nature.