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Call for Expression of Interest: Study to Provide Knowledge Base for the Development of the Long-Term Strategic Framework on Capacity-Building Beyond 2020

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/ET/KT/CP/87979 (2019-033)
To: CBD, CPB, ABS, SBSTTA National Focal Points, relevant organizations

Call for expression of interest to participate in the pilot project on “Capacity-building to promote integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Convention on Biological Diversity at the national level”

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/mw/85125 (2015-119)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points

Call for expression of interest to participate in the project on "Integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress, and the Convention on Biological Diversity"

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/KG/PD/PS/86494 (2017-040)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DAIN/CSt/fd/87981 (2019-028)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, partner organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

Reference: SCBD/OES/DAIN/MB/FD/90892 (2023-025)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Call for the nomination of participants for the expert workshop to develop recommendations for possible gender elements in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, 11-12 April 2019 - New York City, United States of America

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/JS/TMC/VA/87941 (2019-020)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, relevant organizations

Caribbean Sub-regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Resource Mobilization

9 - 13 March 2015, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda

Caribbean Sub-regional Workshop on Capacity-building for the effective implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

4 - 8 March 2013, Saint George's, Grenada

Caribbean Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms

26 - 30 September 2011, Belize City, Belize

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety .

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/57194 (2007-012)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points

The Executive Secretary is pleased to announce, that following a competitive process of selection, Mr. Charles Gbedemah, a national from Ghana has been appointed as Senior Environmental Affairs Officer to the Biosafety Unit of the Secretariat.

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety takes effect

Montreal, September 9, 2003 – The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the first legally binding international agreement governing the transboundary movement of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology enters into force on Thursday, 11 September 2003.

Celebrating 25 years of Success in Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity: Call for posters and announcement of poster tool training sessions at the second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

Reference: SCBD/MCO/AF/DAIN/FD/87476 (2018-060)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, United Nations organizations, non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities organizations, business organizations, educational organizations

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Workshop on Capacity-Building and Exchange of Experiences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Living Modified Organisms

26 - 28 November 2007, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Workshop on Capacity-Buliding and Exchange of Experiences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Living Modified Organism, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 26-28 November 2007

Reference: SCBD/BS/ET/jh/60313 (2007-119)
To: Central and Eastern Europe National Focal Points of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosatety and other Governments of relevant organizations

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Workshop on Capacity-Buliding and Exchange of Experiences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Living Modified Organism, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 26-28 November 2007

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Measures

16 - 20 December 2013, Batumi, Georgia

Central and Eastern European Regional Training of Trainers' Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

11 - 15 April 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Central and Eastern European Regional Workshop on the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

16 - 17 June 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Central and Eastern European Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms

24 - 28 September 2018, Minsk, Belarus

Central and Eastern European Workshop on the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

7 - 11 March 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Certified copies of the text of the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/ps/75080 (2011-039)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated, Relevant Organizations

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, acting in his capacity as depositary, has finalized the authentication and preparation of certified copies of the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Nagoya, 15 October 2010) in ...

Change of venue of the COP 13 to the Convention on Biological Diversity, COP-MOP 8 to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and COP-MOP 2 to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Reference: SCBD/RMCS/CS/PT/84810 (2015-078)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS Focal Points and International Organizations

Chronogram for the migration of the Biosafety Clearing-House to its new platform

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AB/88214 (2019-063)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Closing date for signature of the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/ps/78657 (2012-007)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming, China, 15 October 2021

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming, China, 15 October 2021

Code of Conduct to Prevent Harassment at CBD Events

Reference: SCBD/OES/WY/90182 (2022-016)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, international organizations, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and relevant organizations

Codex Committee on Food Labelling

8 - 12 May 2000, Ottawa, Canada

Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues

2 - 6 April 2001, The Hague, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (32nd Session)

1 - 8 May 2000, The Hague, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

Collection of feedback on existing capacity and experiences in using the BCH

Reference: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/83466 (2014-070)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB-NFPs), National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH-NFPs), CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), Relevant Organizations

Colloque Connaissances et gestion des ressources génétiques

9 - 11 October 2000, Toulouse, France

Colombia will host the next United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Colombia will host the next United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/UN/82412 (2013-072)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, BCH National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), Relevant Organizations

Committee on Food and Labelling (29th Session)

30 April - 4 May 2001, Ottawa, Canada

Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

21 - 22 June 2000, Geneva, Switzerland

Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

8 - 9 November 2000, Geneva, Switzerland

Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitory Measures

25 - 26 June 2002, Geneva, Switzerland

Communique: Mauritania Becomes 23rd Signatory to the Two New Biodiversity Treaties

Communique: Panama and Peru sign the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress.

Communiqué: Antigua and Barbuda becomes twenty-sixth signatory to the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol

Communiqué: Enhancing Preparations for the Aichi-Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Communiqué: European Union approves Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress

Communiqué: Hyderabad ready to host the world biodiversity community

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/77836 (2011-196)
To: All National Focal Points under the Convention and Biosafety Protocol

I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Secretary of the CBD paid a visit to India from 5 to 8 October 2011 to discuss preparations for the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/6) and the eleven ...

Communiqué: Hyderabad, 27 September 2012 – Some 2000 delegates from more than 150 countries will convene this coming Monday in Hyderabad, India, for the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP 6).

Communiqué: Meeting on the Safe Use of Living Modified Organisms - First of three major United Nations meetings opens Monday

Communiqué: Morocco Ratifies the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

Communiqué: Somalia Becomes the 160th Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

Communiqué: Uruguay ratifies the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Communiqé: Training Workshop for Government Officials in the Use of the Biosafety Clearing-House Successfully Concluded.