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Elizabeth Maruma Mrema appointed head of UN Biodiversity Convention.

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema appointed head of UN Biodiversity Convention

8 June 2020 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today appointed Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, a national of the United Republic of Tanzania, as the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Logo for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020: "Our solutions are in nature"

Reference: SCBD/OES/DAIN/MB/FD/88610 (2020-035)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities

Fourteenth meeting of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

20 - 23 April 2020, Online

Seventeenth meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

15 - 17 April 2020, Online

Summit on Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/IS/88838 (2020-034)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

30 March - 3 April 2020, Online

Due to the evolving nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has moved to hold many meetings virtually and has postponed others.

Arrangements for meetings of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

17 March 2020 – Due to the evolving nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has moved to hold many meetings virtually and has postponed others.

Update regarding COVID-19 and upcoming CBD meetings

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/88792 (2020-029)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Registration and Credentials for Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 15), Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 10), and Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (COP-MOP 4), 15-28 October 2020 - Kunming, China

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/88726 (2020-025)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, and indigenous people and local communities, and other stakeholders

International biosafety treaty marks its twentieth anniversary

Twenty years ago, on 29 January 2000, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol entered into force on 11 September 2003.

Twenty years ago, on 29 January 2000, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol entered into force on 11 September 2003.

International biosafety treaty marks its twentieth anniversary

29 January 2020 – Twenty years ago, on 29 January 2000, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol entered into force on 11 September 2003.

Theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020

Reference: SCBD/OES/DAIN/MB/FD/88610 (2020-007)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities

Open-ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

20 January - 1 February 2020, Online

Launching of the First Phase of the Newly Designed Website

Reference: SCBD/OES/DAIN/FV/UN/SN/FD/88542 (2019-118)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/MA/MW/88425 (2019-119)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points

Third joint Aarhus Convention/CBD round table on public awareness, access to information and public participation regarding living modified organisms/genetically modified organisms (LMOs)/(GMOs)

16 - 18 December 2019, Geneva, Switzerland

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

10 - 13 December 2019, Vienna, Austria

Review of post-2020 Implementation Plan and Capacity-building Action Plan (Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88522 (2019-110)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Nomination of Experts to the Western, Central and Eastern Asian Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms, 13-17 April 2020 - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/MA/MW/88481 (2019-103)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, China, Cyprus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Oman, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and relevant organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points of the Western, Central and Eastern Asian sub-regions

REMINDER: Submission of the fourth national report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AB/87939 (2019-098)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

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

28 October - 8 November 2019, Online

Nomination of experts to participate in the Open-ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management and the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/MA/MW/88425 (2019-095)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points

Thirteenth meeting of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

22 - 25 October 2019, Montreal, Canada

Survey on key indicators of the Programme of Work on Public Awareness, Education and Participation Concerning Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/UN/88392 (2019-092)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88246 (2019-088)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Anglophone African Laboratory Training Workshop on Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

16 - 20 September 2019, Abuja, Nigeria

Online forum on socio-economic considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

9 - 20 September 2019, Online

REMINDER: Submission of the fourth national report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AB/87939 (2019-074)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Global Consultation Workshop on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Biosafety and the Cartagena Protocol

25 August 2019, Nairobi, Kenya

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-Economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88246 (2019-068)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Nomination of Experts for the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AM/MW/88288 (2019-069)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and Relevant Organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points

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

Submission of information on detection and identification of living modified organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AM/MW/88235 (2019-062)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points

Open-ended online discussions on the Post-2020 Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

8 - 19 July 2019, Online

Nomination of Experts to the Anglophone African Laboratory Training Workshop on Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms, Abuja, Nigeria, 16-20 September 2019

Reference: SCBD/CPU/KG/MA/MW/88209 (2019-056)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of the Anglophone Africa region, and relevant organizations; Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points of the Anglophone Africa region

Online format for submission of the fourth national report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AB/87939 (2019-055)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

4 - 7 June 2019, Montreal, Canada

Sixteenth meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

29 - 31 May 2019, Montreal, Canada

Resources to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity 2019 - Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/CSt/ME/88139 (2019-046)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, partner organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Open-ended online discussions on the post-2020 Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88111 (2019-044)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

First meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 27-30 August 2019 – Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/JMF/88092 (2019-043)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations, cc: SBSTTA Focal Points

Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for the preparation of the fourth national reports under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/PD/PS/88104 (2019-042)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Anglophone African Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms

8 - 12 April 2019, Pretoria, South Africa

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

Socio-economic considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/PD/PS/87987 (2019-031)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Advancing the Biodiversity Agenda: Ministerial Roundtable on main outcomes of the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference and the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework: A high-level event to be held at the margins of UNEA-4, Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday 14 March 2019, 2pm to 4pm

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/87989 (2019-032)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, relevant organizations

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