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Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) wrapped up a weeklong meeting on implementation with recommendations on, among others, resource mobilization, technical and scientific cooperation, poverty eradication and sustainable development, enhancements to the structures and processes under the CBD and engagement with business, local governments and other stakeholders.

Governments recommend actions for enhancing implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) wrapped up a weeklong meeting on implementation with recommendations on, among others, resource mobilization, technical and scientific cooperation, poverty eradication and sustainable development, enhancements to the structures and processe ...

UNEP/CBD/COP/12/4

Report of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention on the Work of Its Fifth Meeting

Aichi 2020 in Mongolia

To introduce and share National Biodiversity Action Plan and the Aichi Targets and the progress, results, success And challenges of implementation.

Toward achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020 ~ Contribution of Sub-National Governments

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets are 20 ambitious goals that make up part of the CBD’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, adopted by the parties in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture in 2010. The targets provide a framework for action for all stakeholders, including sub-national and local government ...

Selected experts for the Working Group for the development of a methodology for Voluntary Peer-Review of Convention on Biological Diversity Implementation

Reference: SCBD/JBF/AY/DD/GT/84133 (2015-004)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Inception Meeting of the Working Group for the development of a methodology for Voluntary Peer-Review of the Convention on Biological Diversity Implementation

11 - 13 February 2015, Tbilisi, Georgia

Southern African Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

16 - 17 February 2015, Windhoek, Namibia

Central American Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

2 - 3 March 2015, Managua, Nicaragua

Asian Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

16 - 17 March 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka

South American Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

13 - 14 April 2015, Asunción, Paraguay

Western African Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

20 - 21 April 2015, Cabo Verde

Western African Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

18 - 19 May 2015, Libreville, Gabon

Selection of experts to prepare a report on the full assessment of funding necessary and available for the implementation of the Convention for the period July 2018 to June 2022

Reference: SCBD/TSI/RS/YX/LZ/84244 (2015-063)
To: All Focal Points under the Convention and its Protocols, relevant stakeholder organizations

Eastern European Workshop on CBD Implementation and Financial Reporting

22 - 23 June 2015, Georgia

International Expert Workshop on Biodiversity Mainstreaming

17 - 19 November 2015, Mexico City, Mexico

Twentieth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 20), 25 to 30 April 2016 and First meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 1), 2 to 6 May 2016, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/SAM/TSI/RH/RS/LZ/VA/85232 (2015-150)
To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points

Twentieth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 20), 25 to 30 April 2016 and First meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 1), 2 to 6 May 2016, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/SAM/TSI/RH/RS/LZ/VA/85232 (2015-151)
To: UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs and Indigenous Organizations

Peer review of documentation regarding the review progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 at the first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

Reference: SCBD/TSI/RS/LZ/85338 (2016-010)
To: : CBD National Focal Points

Expert Group Meeting on the Full Assessment of Funding Necessary and Available for the Implementation of the Convention for the period July 2018 to June 2022

17 - 18 February 2016, New Delhi, India

Second meeting of the informal working group for the development of a voluntary peer review process for the Convention on Biological Diversity

16 - 18 March 2016, Bern, Switzerland

UNEP/CBD/SBI/1/10/ADD3

Further Options for Mechanisms to Support Review of Implementation

UNEP/CBD/SBI/1/10

Modus Operandi of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation and Mechanisms to Support Review of Implementation

“Friends of the CBD” workshop on mechanisms to support review of implementation of the Convention

21 - 23 March 2016, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland

UNEP/CBD/SBI/1/2

Progress in the Implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and Towards the Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

The first meeting of the new Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-1) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will open today, focusing on increasing efforts related to strengthening the review process and enhance on-the-ground implementation at global, national, sub-national and local levels.

This is a historic day in the life of our Convention on Biological Diversity for two reasons. First, we open the first meeting of this body, the Subsidiary Body on Implementation. Second, the Secretariat celebrates 20 years in this beautiful and diverse city of Montreal.

Enhanced implementation, mainstreaming, key issues at first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation to the Convention on Biological Diversity

The first meeting of the new Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-1) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will open today, focusing on increasing efforts related to strengthening the review process and enhance on-the-ground implementation at global, national, sub-national and local ...

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the First Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, 2–6 May 2016, Montreal, Canada

First meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

2 - 6 May 2016, Montreal, Canada

UNEP/CBD/SBI/1/14

Report of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation on Its First Meeting

Call for Posters on progress achieved towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 4-17 December 2016 – Cancun, Mexico

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/RH/MC/85928 (2016-101)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations

Group on Earth Observations establishes National Contact Points for Data Sharing

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/85940 (2016-105)
To: CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points

Invitation to submit comments on the revised short-term action plan (2017-2020) to enhance and support capacity-building for the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Reference: SCBD/IMS/RS/ET/cp/85976 (2016-113)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Global Workshop on integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Convention on Biological Diversity

31 October - 4 November 2016, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

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

Reminder: Submission of national biodiversity strategies and action plans; adoption as policy instruments

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/RH/MC/86215 (2017-003)
To: CBD National Focal Points

African Union: The Great Great Wall Initiative

The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative aims to implement actions to end or reverse land degradation, loss of biodiversity in African drylands and to ensure that ecosystems are resilient to climate change, continue to provide essential services and contribute to human well-being and the eliminatio ...

Anticipating hastened global action in integrating conservation in dev't sectors

Following the agreement of 196 countries during the UN Biodiversity Conference to ensure the achievement of global biodiversity targets through actions at the global, regional, national, and sub-national levels, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) Executive Director Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim ex ...

Cameroon launches second phase of biodiversity conservation project

The second phase of the Integrated and Transborder Conservation of Biodiversity in the Basins of the Republic of Cameroon basins, TRIDOM II. The project was launched on Tuesday December 19 in Sangmelima by the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife in partnership with the United Nations Development P ...

LIFE programme: Council agrees its position on the EU's environmental policy flagship programme

The EU is updating its main funding instrument for nature, biodiversity and climate action projects. The Council today agreed its position (partial general approach) on a regulation to extend the LIFE programme beyond 2020. LIFE is the EU's flagship programme dedicated to funding environmental, ...

Central Africa: EU Grants €20 Million for Biodiversity Protection

Biodiversity protection programmes in Central Africa will receive a €20 million grant from the European Union. Three grant contracts have been signed in this regard.

KENYA: UNDP launches $4 million project for biodiversity conservation

Kenya has a high biodiversity, with national parks that are among the best known and most visited by tourists on the African continent. For example, the Masai Mara National Park, known for its beautiful wildebeest population, or Lake Nakuru National Park, with its myriad of water birds. These na ...

Beijing biodiversity meet to debate '30 percent by 2030' target

Ahead of a crucial global meet on biodiversity next year, a group of 13 international conservation organizations urged governments to set an ambitious target to protect the world's natural sites and wildlife population.

Taking the lead in Asean biodiversity conservation

How will you make sure that everyone—from policy-makers and business leaders to their employees, and even school children—are aware of and practice biodiversity conservation in their daily activities? This is the challenging mission of Dr. Theresa Mundita S. Lim, international wildlife expert a ...

Africa's global deal for nature

Africa is experiencing a dramatic loss of biodiversity. By the end of this century, climate change alone could cause the loss of over half of African bird and mammal species, and a significant loss of plant species.

EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020

Conscious of the need to avert global biodiversity loss, on May 3, 2011, the European Commission adopted a new strategy to halt the loss of biodiversity, known as EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 (EUBS).

Our diets must change to halt nature loss, says UN biodiversity chief

Next year is a crunch moment for efforts to stem humanity’s destruction of nature. So far, efforts are failing miserably, with a landmark UN report this year finding our activities have put a million species at risk of extinction.

Stakeholders plan strategies to tackle biodiversity, ecosystem threats

To strengthen the resilience of African food systems, communities and natures’ contributions to the economy, stakeholders have harped on the need for more action plans and strategies in addressing tremendous pressure on the nations’ biodiversity.

Anne McCall: Be honest about the transformative change needed to save biodiversity

Scotland has just been given the clearest and most objective view of how its remarkable natural heritage and ecosystems are faring in the modern world.