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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

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

Regional Consultation on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for the Latin America and the Caribbean, 14-17 May 2019 – Montevideo, Uruguay

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/CE/87978 (2019-029)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points of Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), IPLCs, and relevant organizations

Regional Consultation on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for Central and Eastern Europe, 16-18 April 2019 – Belgrade, Serbia

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/JG/87917 (2019-030)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, IPLCs, relevant organizations

Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology

4 - 29 March 2019, Online Forum

Dates of the Intersessional Meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the biennium 2019-2020

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/87949 (2019-026)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Traditional Knowledge Focal Points, and relevant organizations and stakeholders

Overview of the post-2020 process for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/87928 (2019-027)
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

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/KG/MA/MW/87944 (2019-023)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points

Reminder: Nomination of Experts to the Anglophone Africa Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms, Pretoria, South Africa, 8-12 April 2019

Reference: SCBD/CPU/KG/MA/MW/87888 (2019-022)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of the Anglophone Africa region, 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 Anglophone Africa region

Theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity 2019

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/CSt/DAIN/fd/87872 (2019-021)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, partner organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

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

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/PD/MW/87939 (2019-019)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

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

Reminder: Submission of information on synthetic biology and nomination of experts to participate in the Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/MA/MW/87791 (2019-018)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Points

Core programme budget for the Cartagena Protocol : Scale of assessment for the apportionment of expenses for 2019 and 2020

Reference: SCBD/CPP/DC/GF/87912 (2019-016)
To: Cartagena Protocol Focal Points

Regional Consultation on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for Africa, 2-5 April 2019 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/ET/CP/FK/87875 (2019-014)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points of: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, relevant organizations

Follow-up to decisions of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Overview of requests for action and planned activities for the biennium 2019-2020

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/MW/87878 (2019-011)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), international organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: submission of information and call for expression of interest

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/MA/MW/87798 (2019-009)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points

Regional Consultation on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for the Western European and Others Group and other members of the European Union, 19-21 March 2019 – Bonn, Germany

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/KK/FK/87873 (2019-010)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points of: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, relevant organizations

Initial discussion document on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/JMF/87868 (2019-008)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations

Request for nominations for the establishment of an Informal Advisory Group on Mainstreaming of Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/SSSFD/ML/OH/VA/87855 (2019-006)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, relevant stakeholders, organizations and initiatives

Nomination of Experts to the Anglophone Africa Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms, Pretoria, South Africa, 8-12 April 2019

Reference: SCBD/CP/DC/MA/MW/87888 (2019-007)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of the Anglophone Africa region, 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 Anglophone Africa region

User Feedback regarding the CBD Events Application

Reference: SCBD/ITS/JMF/ET/CP/87755 (2019-005)
To: CBD, ABS, CPB National Focal Points, IPLCs, relevant organizations

2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/GD/87836 (2019-002)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, and ABS Focal Points

Submission of information on synthetic biology and nomination of experts to participate in the Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CP/DC/MA/MW/87791 (2018-103)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Points

Review of experience in holding concurrently the meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, and the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/WY/87783 (2018-101)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points

Reminder: Invitation for views on the preparation, scope and content of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/KNM/87538 (2018-102)
To: CBD National Focal Points, CPB Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations.

Statement of the Executive Secretary, Ms. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, at the closing of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2018, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 29 November 2018

196 Governments agree to scale up investments in nature and people towards 2020 and beyond: UN Biodiversity Conference closes in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

29 November 2018 – The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP14) closed tonight with broad international agreement on reversing the global destruction of nature and biodiversity loss threatening all forms of life on Earth.

Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop

24 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Governments set stage to take ambitious actions for nature and people: UN Biodiversity Conference opens in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

18 November 2018 – The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference opened yesterday in the seaside town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with an opening ceremony that included an address from President of Egypt, H.E. Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi, who emphasized the crucial importance of the meeting f ...

Opening statement by Ms. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the 2018 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, 17 November 2018, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

17 - 29 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Launch of the CBD Events Application in time for the UN Biodiversity Conference 2018

Reference: SCBD/ITS/JMF/ET/SM/CP/87755 (2018-096)
To: CBD, ABS, CPB National Focal Points, IPLCs and relevant organizations

Governments meet in Egypt to build momentum for a New Deal for Nature and People: 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference held under the theme of “Investing in Biodiversity for People and Planet"

8 November 2018 - The global community will lay the groundwork for action over the next few decades to protect biodiversity and nature at the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference , scheduled to take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 17 to 29 November 2018.

Budget document for COP-14

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/87743 (2018-092)
To: CBD Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Points

High-level Segment of the 2018 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, 17 - 29 November 2018; High-level Ministerial Segment of the meetings, 14 - 15 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.)

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/CE/87388 (2018-091)
To: CBD National Focal Points, CPB and ABS Focal Points

High-level Segment of the 2018 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, 17 - 29 November 2018; High-level Ministerial Segment of the meetings, 14 - 15 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.)

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/CE/87388 (2018-088)
To: CBD National Focal Points, CPB and ABS Focal Points

Revised list of selected indigenous and local community representatives to receive funding from the Voluntary Trust Fund for participation in the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 14), the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 9) and the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (COP-MOP 3), 17 to 29 November 2018 - Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Reference: SCBD/SPS/AS/JS/MLS/87388 (2018-087)
To: CBD National Focal Points, TK Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local community organizations, and other relevant organizations

Fourth Science for Biodiversity Forum: “Towards living in harmony with nature by 2050” 23-24 November 2018 - Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/VA/87723 (2018-086)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, CPB Focal Points, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Invitation to prepare for elections to replace outgoing members of the Compliance Committees under the Protocols at the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol (COP-MOP 9) and the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol (COP-MOP 3)

Reference: SCBD/SPS/AS/MPM/VN/KG/PD/PS/87660 (2018-082)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena and the Nagoya Protocols CBD National Focal Points (where CPB and ABS NFPs have not yet been designated)

Hotel Accommodation and Transportation, 2018 United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/87388 (2018-081)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, indigenous people and local communities, and other stakeholders

Selected indigenous and local community representatives to receive funding from the Voluntary Trust Fund for participation in the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 14), the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 9) and the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (COP-MOP 3), 17 to 29 November 2018 - Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Reference: SCBD/SPS/AS/VN/JS/MLS/87388 (2018-079)
To: CBD National Focal Points, TK Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local community organizations, and other relevant organizations

Invitation for nominations to the Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop, 24 November 2018 - Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Reference: SCBD/SPS/AS/MPM/AB/87678 (2018-078)
To: BCH and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Focal Points

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

24 - 28 September 2018, Minsk, Belarus

High-level Segment of the 2018 United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/87388 (2018-075)
To: CBD National Focal points, ABS Focal Points and Cartagena Protocol Focal Points