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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/AB/64400 (2008-077)
To: All National Focal Points to the Convention on Biological Diversity
I am pleased to inform you that the final report of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held from 19 to 30 May 2008, in Bonn, Germany, is now available as document UNEP/CBD/COP/9/29. The English version of the report can be access ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/jh/64396 (2008-078)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)
With reference to the notification issued on 26 June 2008, SCBD/BS/CG/jh/64305, informing Parties of the availability of the final report of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety held in Bonn, Germany, 12 ...
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/EB/MC/64356 (2008-075)
To: CBD National Focal Points (Central Africa)
I am pleased to inform you that a regional workshop for countries of Central Africa on “Capacity-building for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Mainstreaming of Biodiversity” will be held in Limbé, Cameroon, from 22 to 25 September 2008. This workshop is being organized by t ...
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/DC/LC/64383 (2008-076)
To: CBD National Focal Points
The Conference of the Parties (COP) at its ninth regular session, in adopting decision IX/9 on the revision of the Strategic Plan of the Convention after 2010, invited Parties and observers to submit further views on the revision and updating of the Strategic Plan. As suggested by the COP, in pr ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/64305 (2008-074)
To: Biosafety National Focal Points
This is to kindly inform you that the report of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP/4) is now made available as document UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/4/18.
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63886 (2008-072)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, SBSTTA Focal Points
The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the May issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2008/mba-2008-05-en.pdf.
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Reference: SCBD/BCH/GF/ABw/58011 (2008-073)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (or CBD National Focal Points where Biosafety Focal Points have not been nominated yet)
Cc: National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing-House
Reference is made to my earlier notifications with respect to the submission of first regular national reports as called for in the relevant decisions of the Parties to the Protocol made in accordance with Article 33 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on monitoring and reporting. I would lik ...
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/NP/ABw/63850 (2008-071)
To: All CBD Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that, for the first time, the proceedings of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will be webcast live and available for viewing through the CBD website at http://www.cbd.int/cop9/webcast/
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/EB/63947 (2008-070)
To: CBD National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the second issue of the Secretariat’s newsletter on Biodiversity for Development and Poverty Alleviation has been posted on the CBD website. It can be downloaded at the following address: http://www.cbd.int/doc/newsletters/news-bd-02-en.pdf
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63973 (2008-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points
The purpose of this Notification is to inform you that an Addendum to the document “Proposed Budget for the Programme of Work of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the Biennium 2009-2010” (reference: UNEP/CBD/COP/9/27/ADD2) is available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/d ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63979 (2008-068)
To: CBD National Focal Points
On behalf of the Government of Germany, the Secretariat is pleased to forward to you, for your kind attention, additional information about the High Level Segment of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, to be held from 28 to 30 May ...
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/EB/63821 (2008-069)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Business and biodiversity contacts
I am pleased to inform you that the first issue of the Secretariat’s newsletter on Biodiversity for Development and Poverty Alleviation has been posted on the CBD website. It can be downloaded at the following address: http://www.cbd.int/doc/newsletters/news-bd-01-en.pdf
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Reference: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/63826 (2008-064)
To: All National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB), All National Focal Points to the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH)
I am very pleased to announce that the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) is now accessible in all six of the official languages of the United Nations (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). The translation has been completed for all public pages of the BCH Central Portal (htt ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63838 (2008-065)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, SBSTTA Focal Points
The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the April issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2008/mba-2008-04-en.pdf.
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/ODM/63822 (2008-066)
To: CHM National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the Internet domain name chm-cbd.net has been acquired by the Secretariat to promote the national and partner websites of the clearing-house mechanism network. Therefore, I invite all Parties with a National CHM website to join this network by creating a website ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/cv/62943 (2008-063)
To: CBD National Focal Points
At the initiative of the Environment Committee of the German Parliament, and in collaboration with the Secretariat, a high-level dialogue on Biodiversity and Parliamentarians will be organized on Tuesday 27 May, from 3.00 to 6.00 p.m. Please find enclosed the draft programme of the event.
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/COP-MOP4/dk/63803 (2008-061)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The Secretariat would like to inform delegates attending the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4), being held in Bonn, Germany, from 12-16 May 2008, that pre-registration of delegates will be tran ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/COP9/dk/63804 (2008-062)
To: CBD National Focal Points
The Secretariat would like to inform delegates attending the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9) being held in Bonn, Germany, from 19-30 May 2008, that pre-registration of delegates will be transferred from our offices in Montreal to t ...
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/NP/CG/63635 (2008-057)
To: All CBD Focal Points
The Green Wave has been initiated by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) working with the Office of Environmental Response and Coordination (OERC) of the Republic of Palau. The campaign has received support from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conserva ...
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/JH/63699 (2008-059)
To: CBD National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the new issue of the Secretariat’s newsletter on Article 8(j): Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices - Pachamama (May 2008, Vol. 2, Issue No. 2) - has been posted on the CBD website. It can be downloaded at the following address: www.cbd.int/traditional.
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/LG/cr/62508 (2008-060)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, All National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
I wish to remind Parties that, in accordance with rule 18, credentials of representatives and the names of alternate representatives and advisers shall be submitted to the Executive Secretary, if possible not later than twenty-four hours after the opening of the meeting. Parties are further rem ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/62947 (2008-055)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The Secretariat would, once again, kindly like to remind delegates attending the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4) and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Bi ...
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/NB/63620 (2008-056)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Business and biodiversity contacts
In order to help participants interested in business and biodiversity plan their stay in Bonn, the Secretariat has prepared a Guide to business related events at COP-9. I am pleased to inform you that the Guide is now posted online at: http://www.cbd.int/business/COP-9.shtml.
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/GD/63646 (2008-058)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the Co-chairs of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS), Mr. Fernando Casas of Colombia and Mr. Timothy Hodges of Canada, will be holding informal consultations in Bonn, Germany, on 17-18 May 2008, on the margins of the ninth me ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/CV/62913 (2008-053)
To: All CBD, CHM and SBSTTA National Focal Points
Please refer to my earlier notification 2008-031 (Ref.: SCBD/STTM/JM/CV/62913) , dated 27 March 2008, concerning the training workshops for participants in the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-9) to be held from 19 to 30 May 2008 in Bonn, Germany.
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Reference: SCBD/RMCS/MR-H/63560 (2008-054)
To: CBD National Focal Points
Please find the audited financial statements (related to the following Trust Funds) for the biennium 2006-2007 ended 31 December 2007
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Reference: SCBD/ITS/MC/63396 (2008-052)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Report Contact Officers
In accordance with Decision VIII/14, Parties shall submit the fourth national report by 30 March 2009. With less than one year away from the deadline, we encourage all Parties that have not yet done so to initiate the process of preparing the report to ensure its timely submission.
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/NB/63313 (2008-051)
To:
I am pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Secretariat’s newsletter on business and biodiversity, Business.2010 (Vol.3, No. 3), has been posted on the CBD website. This general issue on business and biodiversity is released on the occasion of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Pa ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/AR/61327 (2008-049)
To: All CBD National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that a revised annotated agenda for the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (UNEP/CBD/COP/9/1/Add.1/Rev.1) is now available on the Secretariat website at http://www.cbd.int/cop9/doc.
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JS/lj/63260 (2008-050)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, GTI Focal Points
The purpose of this notification is to inform CBD National Focal points, as well as SBSTTA and GTI Focal Points, about the eighth meeting of the Coordination Mechanism for the Global Taxonomy Initiative to be held on 31 May 2008 in Bonn, Germany, at the margins of the ninth meeting of the Confer ...
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/DAINS/63143 (2008-048)
To: CBD National Focal Points
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to announce the first sporting event organised in the context of a meeting of the COP. The "Naturathlon 2008 -- The Course of the World" is an excellent opportunity to bring together delegates from all over the world to partic ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/63197 (2008-047)
To: Biosafety National Focal Points
This is to kindly inform you that the report of the fifth meeting of the Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (“the Working Group” hereinafter) is now made available as document UNEP/CBD/BS/W ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/OH/63111 (2008-044)
To: CBD National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform you that the Government of Brazil has submitted to the Secretariat, for circulation to Parties, a draft decision on Cities and Biodiversity for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties at its ninth meeting under item 4.13 of the agenda.
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Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/jh/63071 (2008-045)
To: Biosafety National Focal Points – African Regional Group
I have the honour to inform you that, with to the generous financial support of the Government of Germany and the African Union, the African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the COP/MOP 4 will take place on 10-11 May 2008 at Maritim Hotel in Bonn, Germany. The meeting will be assisted by Mr. Wo ...
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Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/63013 (2008-040)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Indigenous and Local Communities
As you know, in Section D-I of Decision VIII/5, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, adopted the criteria for the operation of the Voluntary Funding Mechanism to facilitate the participation of indigenous and local communities in the work of the Convention.
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/NP/CG/63047 (2008-041)
To: All CBD Focal Points
The CBD is pleased to announce the launching of its first educational module for children and teachers on biodiversity and agriculture – the 2008 theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity. The module comprises of an online educational web portal for primary school students and fi ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/63048 (2008-037)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, SBSTTA Focal Points
The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the March issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the Secretariat website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2008/mba-2008-03-en.pdf.
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/DAINS/63046 (2008-039)
To: CBD National Focal Points
As the world prepares to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD), I have the pleasure to inform you that all documentation related to this year’s celebrations of IBD, under the theme Biodiversity and Agriculture, is now available on the Secretariat’s website at: http://www ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/AR/62973 (2008-042)
To: All CPB Focal Points
I am pleased to inform Parties and participants to the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, which will be held in Bonn, Germany from 12 - 16 May 2008, that in accordance with the six-week rule on the distribution of docu ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/AR/62972 (2008-043)
To: All CBD National Focal Points
I am pleased to inform Parties and participants to the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which will be held in Bonn, Germany from 19 – 30 May 2008, that in accordance with the six-week rule on the distribution of documents all pre-session d ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/UN/jh/62396 (2008-038)
To: All National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
I have the honour to inform you that the Secretariat has extended the deadline receiving expressions of interest to participate in the fair to 14 April 2008.
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/DAINS/62251 (2008-036)
To: CBD National Focal Points
I have the honour to inform you that the Secretariat will extend the deadline for applications to participate in the fair on experiences and best practices in Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA), to be held at the margins of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/SBG/VA/62944 (2008-034)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, GSPC Focal Points
The purpose of this notification is to request CBD National Focal points, SBSTTA and GSPC Focal Points, as well as other relevant stakeholders, to submit comments on the draft Plant Conservation Report.
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JW/lj/62957 (2008-035)
To:
At the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties noted, through decision VII/15 there are opportunities to implement climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in ways that are mutually beneficial and synergistic, and ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/62947 (2008-032)
To: CBD National Focal Points, National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The Secretariat would like to remind delegates attending the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 4) and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity ( ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/62943 (2008-033)
To: CBD National Focal Points
The Secretariat would like to inform Parties that, on the occasion of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 9), the Environment Committee of the German Parliament will hold its regular session on 27 May 2008 in Bonn, instead of Berlin. ...
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Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/CV/62913 (2008-031)
To: All CBD, CHM and SBSTTA National Focal Points
The Secretariat, in cooperation with the Consortium of the Scientific Partners on Biodiversity and the Botanical Gardens of the University of Bonn, is pleased to announce the organization of four training workshops for the participants in the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-9 ...
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Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/61934 (2008-030)
To: Asian Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points and Relevant organizations
Please refer to my earlier notifications of 28 January and 19 February 2008, Ref.: SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/61934 , regarding the Asia Sub-Regional Workshop on Capacity-Building and Exchange of Experiences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Living Modified Organisms, which was to have taken place ...
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Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/62632 (2008-029)
To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points
In the context of its ongoing efforts to enhance communication with Parties and partners, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has initiated a Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention.
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Reference: SCBD/OMG/AD/MK/62608 (2008-027)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Press and Media Contacts
In the context of the implementation of the Global Initiative on Communication, Education and Public Awareness and article 13 of the Convention, a biodiversity training workshop for journalists attending the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties will be held on 25-26 May 2008 in Bonn, G ...
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