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World Soil Day

5 December 2023, Bonn, Germany

Webinar to jointly launch the FAO Biodiversity Knowledge Hub on the occasion of the first anniversary of the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework - 19 December 2023

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/MK/JG/91440 (2023-131)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

English 

Mr. Mojtaba Khayam Nekouei

CBD Primary NFP
m.khayam@areeo.ac.ir

FAO Council (174th Session)

4 - 8 December 2023, Rome, Italy

International expert workshop on Non-Detriment Findings (NDFs)

4 - 8 December 2023, Nairobi, Kenya

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

4 December 2023, Online

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Soil Day, 5 December 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Soil Day, 5 December 2023

Ms. S.T.K.K. Fernando

CHM NFP, SBSTTA NFP, BCH NFP, Traditional Knowledge NFP, Protected Areas NFP, GTI NFP, Resource Mobilization FP, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity NFP, GSPC NFP
sujeewaf@gmail.com

Mr. Almokhtar Mousa A.Saied

Cartagena Protocol Primary NFP, BCH NFP
mok405@yahoo.com

Mr. Sione Akauola

CBD Primary NFP, ABS NFP, Cartagena Protocol Primary NFP, Protected Areas NFP, GSPC NFP
folaosi@gmail.com

Further submissions of information on risk assessment and risk management of living modified organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/90762 (2023-129)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) , cc: SBSTTA national focal points

English 

Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/CGA/AC/91433 (2023-130)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

English 

Second online information session on the global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

30 November 2023, Online

Entities and organizations invited to the second stage of the selection process for regional and/or sub-regional technical and scientific cooperation support centres

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/KT/CPa/91150 (2023-126)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

English 

Extension of deadline: Call for nominations of experts for a meeting to develop a methodology for Headline indicator 7.2 (pesticide environmental concentration) under the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 23-24 January 2024 - Rome, Italy

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/91382 (2023-127)
To: CBD focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

English 

Extension of deadline: Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress - measures to provide for financial security for damage from living modified organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/KG/PD/PS/91317 (2023-128)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

English 

First online information session on the global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

29 November 2023, Online

Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF and UNEP Technical Workshop on the GEF Early Action Support Project for the Pacific Countries, 18-26 March 2024 - Nadi, Fiji

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91406 (2023-125)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu

English 

Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

27 November - 1 December 2023, Montreal, Canada

Legal expert workshop to review modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and describing new areas

23 - 27 November 2023, Oslo, Norway

Workshop to develop a road map for supporting the implementation and monitoring of and capacity development for ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

22 - 24 November 2023, Rome, Italy

Integrating traditional and scientific knowledge for biodiversity conservation

21 November 2023, Online

Technical expert workshop to review modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and describing new areas

20 - 24 November 2023, Oslo, Norway

Governments advance discussions on a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources

Governments advance discussions on a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources

Closing statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, for the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, Geneva, 18 November 2023

Online forum of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

17 - 24 November 2023, Online

Central role of Traditional Knowledge in protection and sustainable use of biodiversity is reaffirmed at United Nations Biodiversity Convention meetings in Geneva, Switzerland

Central role of Traditional Knowledge in protection and sustainable use of biodiversity is reaffirmed at United Nations Biodiversity Convention meetings in Geneva, Switzerland

Closing statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, for the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention, Geneva, 16 November 2023

Closing statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, for the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention, Geneva, 16 November 2023

European Union

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (v.4)

Luxembourg

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (v.3)

Opening statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, 14 November 2023

Opening statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, 14 November 2023

First meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

14 - 18 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

Opening Statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 12 November 2023

Governments meet in Geneva to develop a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, Geneva, Switzerland

Opening Statement by the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, David Cooper, at the twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 12 November 2023

Governments meet in Geneva to develop a multilateral mechanism to share benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, Geneva, Switzerland

Recommendation 12/2

Development of a new programme of work and institutional arrangements on Article 8(j) and other provisions of the Convention related to indigenous peoples and local communities

Recommendation 12/4

Joint programme of work on the links between biological and cultural diversity: review and update of the four adopted traditional knowledge indicators

Recommendation 12/5

Recommendations from the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues pertaining to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Recommendation 12/1

In-depth dialogue: “The role of languages in the intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices”

Recommendation 12/3

Updated draft knowledge management component of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity

12 - 16 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland

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

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

International dialogue with indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant stakeholders on the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Gender Plan of Action

9 - 10 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland