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CBD Secretariat’s new Action Agenda platform fosters “whole-of-society approach” to showcase commitments and actions from non-state actors to put biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030

CBD Secretariat’s new Action Agenda platform fosters “whole-of-society approach” to showcase commitments and actions from non-state actors to put biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030

Montreal, 18 August 2021 – The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) today unveiled its newly designed platform for the Sharm El-Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People.

CIC Markhor Award: Finland Leading the Way in Wetland Conservation

21 November 2018 - The two-year wait is over! Amidst the beating sun of Sharm-el-Sheikh comes a project from the cold, dark winter of Northern Europe.

COP 10 Outcomes: Decisions (Advanced Unedited Texts)

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ab/74313 (2010-199)
To: All CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the advanced unedited texts of the decisions of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 10), held on 18-29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, are now available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/nagoya/ ...

COP 16 & CMP 6 - 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention and Sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (UNFCCC)

29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancun, Mexico

COP 18 / CMP 8 - 18th session of the Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention and Eighth Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (UNFCCC)

26 November - 7 December 2012, To be determined, Qatar

COP 21 / CMP 11 - Twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties of the Climate Change Convention and Eleventh Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (UNFCCC)

30 November - 11 December 2015, Paris, France

Calendar of Meetings under the Convention and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (2007-2008)

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/OJ/55967 (2006-095)
To: CBD National Focal Points CPB National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that, after consultation with the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties (COP), the calendar of meetings funded through the Trust Fund for the Convention on Biological Diversity (the “BY” Trust Fund) and the Trust Fund for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (the “BG” ...

Call for Submissions: Long-term strategic approach to mainstreaming biodiversity within and across sectors

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/ML/BB/GD/90873 (2023-028)
To: CBD National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant initiatives and stakeholders, cc: Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS 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)

Capacity-building for Pilot Countries on the Implementation of Synergies among the Rio Conventions

29 October - 2 November 2012, Hanoi, Viet Nam

Carpathian Convention signs Tourism Protocol based on CBD Guidelines, Ramsar Convention involved in similar effort

Montreal, 28 June 2011 – On 27 May 2011, the seven Parties to the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine) signed a protocol on sustainable tourism in Bratislava, Slovakia, that ...

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 Asia workshop on biodiversity and finance

14 October 2011, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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

Closing Statement by Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the 2016 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, Thirteenth meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, and Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, Cancun, Mexico, 17 December 2016

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Ecological Civilization Forum, Kunming, China, 15 October 2021

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Ecological Civilization Forum, 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

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 high-level segment of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming, China, 13 October 2021

Closing statement of Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the high-level segment of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming, China, 13 October 2021

Colloque 2011 du CSBQ (Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec) / QCSB 2011 Symposium

8 - 9 December 2011, Montreal, Canada

Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

23 - 27 March 2015, Bonn, Germany

Communique: Japan hosts International Multi-stakeholder Dialogue for COP 10

Communiqué Conservation community urges United States ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity: Whatever Happened to Biodiversity?

Communiqué: Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010).

Communiqué: Biodiversity Challenges and Reponses on the Agenda of the G8 Summit of L’Aquila, Italy.

Communiqué: Biodiversity elevated to the Top of the G8 environmental Dialogue.

Communiqué: Biodiversity on top of the environmental agenda in the Arab region

Communiqué: Building bridges for Biodiversity: Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture pays official visit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Communiqué: Enhancing Preparations for the Aichi-Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Communiqué: G8 Leaders Highlight Critical Importance of Biodiversity.

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: India Offers to Host the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2012

Communiqué: Iraq becomes the 192nd Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Communiqué: La Convention des Nations Unies sur la diversité bioloqique salue la création du Centre sur la biodiversité de Montréal.

Communiqué: Painting by Norwegian Artist Ørnulf Opdahl, the Latest Donation to the Museum of Nature and Culture.

Communiqué: President-Elect of the Sixty-Fifth Session of the United Nations General Assembly Visits the Secretariat.

Communiqué: Somalia to Become the 193rd Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Communiqué: TEEB Appoints the Executive Secretary to its Advisory Board.

Communiqué: The Biodiversity Family Stands in Solidarity with the People and Government of the Historic Nagoya Biodiversity Summit: CBD Secretariat steps up to support disaster relief efforts in Japan.

Communiqué: The Logo of the Aichi Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in the Sky.

Communiqué: The President of Algeria donates to the Museum of Nature and Culture of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Communiqué: UN General Assembly Event to Spur Action to Stem Further Biodiversity Loss.

Communiqué: United Nations University launches Master of Science programme in nvironmental Governance with specialization in Biodiversity

Communiqué: Visit of the representative of the incoming President of the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity had the privilege to welcome on 9-10 July 2010 Mr. Masayoshi Mizuno, Director of the Global Environment Division of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Communiqué: Visit to the Secretariat by Norwegian Delegation.

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/KG/MA/MW/87944 (2019-037)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points

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