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Reference: SCBD/SEL/VN/SG/73982 (2010-181)
To: Indigenous and local community organizations, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and relevant stakeholders
Following consultations held at the Ministerial breakfast convened in conjunction with the High Level Event of the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on biodiversity, I am very pleased to inform you that the Interregional Negotiating Group (ING) of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/73727 (2010-178)
To: All CBD, CPB Focal Points, International Organizations, NGOs, ILCs
I am pleased to inform you that the Aichi-Nagoya COP 10 CBD Promotion Committee will provide COP-MOP-5 and COP-10 participants with free round trip train tickets for Meitetsu Airport Line which runs between the Central Japan International Airport (Centrair Station) and Nagoya City (Meitetsu Nago ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MM/jh/73795 (2010-177)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Point, Relevant Organizations
I am pleased to inform you that the Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms, which was developed by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management and made available as annex III of document UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/5/12, is now also available online ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/73653 (2010-175)
To: CBD National Focal Points and International Organizations
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to share highlights of the global celebrations of the International Year of Biodiversity for August 2010. The report is accessible at the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/iyb/doc/prints/iyb-report-2010-08-en.pdf
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Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/73746 (2010-176)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated)
This is to inform you that the term of some of the members of the Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is due to expire on 31 December 2010.
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/73675 (2010-172)
To: All CBD Focal Points
I am very pleased to inform you that thanks to the financial support of the Government of Switzerland, a high level retreat of the Biodiversity Liaison Group established by the Conference of the Parties in 2002 was held at the Château de Bossey, Geneva on 1 September 2010. The heads of Biodivers ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/JS/VF/73036 (2010-173)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Indigenous and Local Community of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
I am pleased to inform you that the selection of indigenous and local community representatives to receive financial assistance to participate in the meeting under reference has been completed in partnership with the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network for the Latin American and Caribbean Re ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/ET/CG/UN/jh/71109 (2010-174)
To: All National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated) and Relevant Organizations
Please refer to my earlier notification of 15 March 2010 (Ref. SCBD/BS/ET/CG/UN/jh/71109) regarding the CEPA fair on national experiences with the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at the margins of the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/73586 (2010-169)
To: All CBD Focal Points, International Organizations, NGOs, ILCs
I am pleased to inform you that the Aichi-Nagoya COP10 CBD Promotion Committee will organize the “Naturathlon 2010 – The Course of the World”, to be held as a related event to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, similar to the “Naturathlon 2008 –The Course of the World” organized ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73029 (2010-171)
To: CBD and ABS National Focal Points, indigenous and local community organizations and international organizations, non-governmental organizations and relevant stakeholder
With reference to the Meeting of the Interregional Negotiating Group (ING) on Access and Benefit-sharing, the Secretariat is pleased to circulate herewith a scenario note from the Co-Chairs of the Working Group on ABS, Mr. Timothy Hodges and Mr. Fernando Casas, the purpose of which is to provide ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/OMG/NP/73394 (2010-170)
To: CBD and CPB National Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; CHM Focal Points; international organizations; non-governmental organizations; and relevant stakeholders
As we approach the high-level meeting on biodiversity at the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September, I would like to introduce you to the MEMO Project. MEMO, which stands for Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory, is a charitable organization based in the United Kingdom (UK).
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73447 (2010-165)
To: CBD and ABS National Focal Points
I am pleased to confirm that the resumed ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9) will be held at the Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya, Japan, on 16 October 2010.
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73447 (2010-166)
To: Indigenous and local community organizations
I am pleased to confirm that the resumed ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9) will be held at the Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya, Japan, on 16 October 2010.
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73447 (2010-167)
To: International organizations, non-governmental organizations and relevant stakeholders
I am pleased to confirm that the resumed ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WG ABS 9) will be held at the Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya, Japan, on 16 October 2010.
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Reference: SCBD/RMCS/IAh/73504 (2010-168)
To: CBD National Focal Points
Attached please find the audited financial statements (related to the following Trust Funds) for the biennium 2008-2009, which ended 31 December 2009.
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JL/JG/73393 (2010-163)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, other Governments, relevant organizations, ILCs
In paragraph 7 of decision VIII/22, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention requested the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with Parties, relevant organizations and indigenous and local communities, to compile and analyze case studies on successful and unsuccessful implementation of ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/DM/73410 (2010-164)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Indigenous and Local Communities
As you may know, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in section D-I of decision VIII/5 adopted the criteria for the operation of the Voluntary Fund Mechanism to facilitate the participation of indigenous and local communities in the work of the Convention.
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Reference: SCBD/CES/AD/lp/73412 (2010-161)
To: To all CBD and CPB National Focal Points and Relevant Organizations
I am pleased to inform you that the side-events registered for the Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5) and the Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Divers ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JSH/73391 (2010-162)
To: CBD National Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; GTI Focal Points; GTI Coordination Mechanism
I am pleased to inform you that the tenth meeting of the Coordination Mechanism for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) will be held in Nagoya, Japan, on 24 October 2010 on the margins of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10).
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/JS/DM/73339 (2010-160)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Indigenous and Local Communities
The Parties to the Convention have recognized the importance of the participation of indigenous and local communities in the elaboration and negotiation of the international regime on access and benefit-sharing in the preamble of decision IX/12 and in paragraphs 18 and 19 of that decision, which ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/73309 (2010-159)
To: International Organizations, NGOs, ILCs and other relevant organizations
I am pleased to inform you that the traditional registration process has been replaced by an online system which will facilitate the registration process to the Fifth meeting of the Conference of the PartieSCBDs serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MO ...
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Reference: SCBD/RMCS/AD/ar/73309 (2010-158)
To: CBD and CPB Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the traditional registration process has been replaced by an online system which will facilitate the registration process to the Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5) ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/TC/JSt/73270 (2010-157)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, CHM Focal Points, POWPA Focal Points, Indigenous and Local Community Organizations, Members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, other Relevant Organizations
I am pleased to inform you that after careful consideration of all nominations, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has approved the list of sponsored experts for the Global Expert Workshop on Biodiversity Benefits of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degrada ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/OES/AD/73209 (2010-156)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Biosafety National Focal Points, and International Organizations
In line with trying to minimize the environmental impacts which inevitably result from meetings of this magnitude, the Secretariat would like to play its part in minimizing waste during the meetings in Nagoya.
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73029 (2010-152)
To: Indigenous and local community organizations
At the conclusion of the second part of its ninth meeting, held in Montreal, Canada, from 10-16 July 2010, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS) decided to reconvene the Interregional Negotiating Group (ING) in order to continue negotiations on the draft Proto ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73029 (2010-153)
To: International organizations, non-governmental organizations and relevant stakeholders
At the conclusion of the second part of its ninth meeting, held in Montreal, Canada, from 10-16 July 2010, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS) decided to reconvene the Interregional Negotiating Group (ING) in order to continue negotiations on the draft Proto ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/73099 (2010-154)
To: CBD National Focal Points and International Organizations
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is pleased to share highlights of the global celebrations of the International Year of Biodiversity for July 2010. The report is accessible at the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/iyb/doc/prints/iyb-report-2010-07-en.pdf
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Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/ps/73102 (2010-155)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated), Relevant Organizations
I am pleased to inform you that the report of the third meeting of the Group of Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress that contains, among other things, the latest version of the text of the proposed supplementary protocol to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is now available in al ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/73029 (2010-150)
To: CBD and ABS National Focal Points
At the conclusion of the second part of its ninth meeting, held in Montreal, Canada, from 10-16 July 2010, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS) decided to reconvene the Interregional Negotiating Group (ING) in order to continue negotiations on the draft Proto ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-151)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Parties without a PoWPA Focal Point
With reference to paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) vide original notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008 (also translated into Spanish https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/ ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/JS/VF/72955 (2010-147)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Indigenous and Local Community
I am pleased to inform you that the selection of indigenous and local community representatives to receive financial assistance to participate in the meeting under reference has been completed in partnership with the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network for the Latin American and Caribbean Re ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/JS/VF/73006 (2010-148)
To: CBD National Focal Points; Indigenous and Local Community of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
I am pleased to inform Parties, international agencies, indigenous and local community representatives and other stakeholders that, thanks to the generous financial support from the Government of Spain, a regional capacity building workshop for indigenous and local community representatives on e ...
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Reference: SCBD/RMCS/AD/NI/71512 (2010-149)
To: all CBD, CPB Focal Points and International organizations
Reference is made to notifications 2010-072 of 15 April 2010 and 2010-132 of 6 July 2010, regarding hotel accommodation for the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5) and the tenth meeting of the Con ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/72995 (2010-146)
To: CBD and ABS National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the report of the resumed ninth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, held in Montreal on 10-16 July 2010 is now accessible in English on the Secretariat’s website at the following link: http://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=ABSWG ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/OH/rg/72486 (2010-145)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Parties member of the Group of 77
I am pleased to invite you to attend the First South-South Cooperation Forum on Biodiversity for Development to be held on 17 October 2010, in Nagoya, just prior to the opening of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10).
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/72696 (2010-141)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, Relevant organizations and partners
The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the June 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-2010-06-en.pdf.
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/VA/70751 (2010-142)
To: CBD and SBSTTA focal points, SBSTTA Bureau Members and relevant organizations
I wish to inform you that the final report of the SBSTTA-14 meeting (document UNEP/CBD/COP/10/3) is now available, in English language, in final form, on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=sbstta-14. The version of this document in the U.N. official languages is being u ...
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Reference: SCBD/RMCS/IAh/72737 (2010-143)
To: CBD National Focal Points
The United Nations Board of Auditors (UNBOA) has reviewed, in October 2009, the financial accounts, as well as the financial and administrative internal procedures of the CBD Secretariat. The UNBOA audit mission was carried out in the context of the audit of the 2008-2009 financial statements o ...
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Reference: SCBD/BCH/GF/ABw/72371 (2010-144)
To: CPB Focal Points, BCH Focal Points
I am pleased to announce that the Secretariat, in collaboration with and support of the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Project, will convene a training workshop for National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH-NFPs) on 8-9 October 2010, immediately before the fifth meeting of the Conference o ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/VN/SG/72950 (2010-138)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous and local community organizations, and stakeholders
The need to raise awareness and to build capacity with respect to access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing has been recognized by the Conference of the Parties (COP) on numerous occasions. At the most recent COP, in decision IX/32 on Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA), ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/72621 (2010-139)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, Relevant organizations and partners
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to share highlights of the global celebrations of the International Year of Biodiversity for June 2010. The report is accessible at the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/iyb/doc/prints/iyb-report-2010-06-en.pdf.
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/JS/DM/72524 (2010-140)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Indigenous and Local Community
I am pleased to inform Parties, international agencies, indigenous and local community representatives and other stakeholders that, thanks to the generous financial support from the Government of Spain, a regional capacity building workshop for indigenous and local community representatives on e ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/72636 (2010-137)
To: All CBD Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the guidelines on Business and Biodiversity prepared by Germany in its capacity as COP 9 president is now available at the following address http://www.bmu.de/english/current_press_releases/pm/46135.php.
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/72619 (2010-133)
To: All CPB Focal Points
I have the honour to refer to Notification 2009-106 of 1 September 2009 announcing the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP/5), and requesting the submission of credentials for representatives of Par ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/72618 (2010-134)
To: All CBD National Focal Points
I have the honour to refer to Notification 2009-107 of 1 September 2009 announcing the Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10) and requesting the submission of credentials for representatives of Parties attending this meeting.
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Reference: SCBD/OES/OES/AD/fd/72421 (2010-135)
To: CBD National Focal Points and International Organizations
As the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) reaches its six months milestone, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) would like to use this important opportunity to highlight some of the many achievements. The year’s success would not have been possible without the ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/OMG/DA/fd/ 72603 (2010-136)
To: CBD National Focal Points and International Organizations
Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) is instrumental in helping to clarify the complexity of the issues surrounding biodiversity. Reflecting this importance, the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), as part of its contribution to the International Year of Biodiv ...
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Reference: SCBD/RMCS/AD/NI/71512 (2010-132)
To: all Focal Points and organizations
As you are aware, the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (COP-MOP 5) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held from 11 – 15 October ...
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/fb/72592 (2010-131)
To: CBD National Focal Points, CPB National Focal Points, and Resource Mobilization Focal Points
The thirty-eighth meeting of the Council of the Global Environment Facility was held from 29 June - 1 July 2010 in Washington, D.C.
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-129)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Parties without a PoWPA Focal Point
In order to facilitate communication and improve capacity for PoWPA implementation in all regions, the Secretariat aims to have a complete list of PoWPA focal points prior to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Parties that have not yet nominated a PoWPA-NFP (see Annex) are there ...
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