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Employment Opportunity at the CBD

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/74893 (2011-028)
To: All CBD National Focal Points; International Organizations

I am pleased to inform you that the post of Principal Officer in charge of the Division of Scientific, Technical and Technological Matters at the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity at D-1 level is under advertisement. The advertisement for this position can be ...

Employment Opportunity at the CBD

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/AR/ab/86416 (2017-027)
To: All CBD National Focal Points and partner organizations; indigenous peoples and local communities

Enhanced implementation, mainstreaming, key issues at first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation to the Convention on Biological Diversity

The first meeting of the new Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-1) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will open today, focusing on increasing efforts related to strengthening the review process and enhance on-the-ground implementation at global, national, sub-national and local ...

Enhancing Preparations for the Aichi-Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Montreal, 19 November 2009 – A powerful delegation from Japan visited the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) in Montreal on 16-17 November to discuss substantive preparations for the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to ...

Enhancing synergies among biodiversity-related conventions at the national level: improving access to, and quality of, available guidance and tool

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/CR/88005 (2019-035)
To: CBD, CPB and ABS National Focal Points, relevant organizations

Ensuring Compliance of All Parties With Their Reporting Obligations on the Implementation of the 2010 Biodiversity Target

Manama, Bahrain, 12 April 2010-At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, world leaders agreed to substantially reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. The 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity decided to submit before March 2009 a national report on the implementat ...

European Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change - Science, Practice & Policy

12 - 13 April 2011, Bonn, Germany

European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) - 27th Session

11 - 15 June 2012, Hameenlinna, Finland

European Parliament resolution of 24 April 2008 on preparations for the COP-MOP meetings on biological diversity and biosafety in Bonn, Germany.

Expert Meeting to Develop a Series of Joint Expert Review Processes to Monitor and Assess the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine and Coastal Biodiversity

19 - 20 October 2011, Montreal, Canada

Expert Workshop to Develop Options for Modifying the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), for Describing New Areas, and for Strengthening the Scientific Credibility and Transparency of this Process

5 - 8 December 2017, Berlin, Germany

Expert workshop on the contribution of science to the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity

31 October - 1 November 2015, Montreal, Canada

Extension of Deadline for Vacancy Announcement: Executive Secretary, Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD)

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/AR/85855 (2016-108)
To: CBD, CPB, ABS, SBSTTA Focal Points, International and Non-Governmental Organizations, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and relevant organizations

Extension of deadline: Submission of nominations for the position of Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/IS/90846 (2023-033)
To: CBD, Cartagena Protocol, ABS, SBSTTA Focal Points, International and Non-Governmental Organizations, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and relevant organizations

FAO Council (140th Session)

29 November - 3 December 2010, Rome, Italy

FAO Council (141st Session)

11 - 15 April 2011, Rome, Italy

FAO Council (148th Session)

2 - 6 December 2013, Rome, Italy

FAO Council (151st Session)

23 - 27 March 2015, Rome, Italy

FAO Council (152nd Session)

15 June 2015, Rome, Italy

FAO Council (153rd Session)

4 November - 4 December 2015, Rome, Italy

FAO Council meeting (156th Session)

24 - 28 April 2017, Rome, Italy

FAO-Biodiversity Mainstreaming Platform’s contribution to the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework meeting

26 - 28 May 2020, Rome, Italy

Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists

The “fates of humans and insects are intertwined”, scientists have said, with the huge declines reported in some places only the “tip of the iceberg”. The warning has been issued by 25 experts from around the world, who acknowledge that little is known about most of the estimated 5.5 million ins ...

February 2009 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/66657 (2009-027)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the February 2009 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/2009/mba-2009-02-en.pdf.

February 2010 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/71115 (2010-052)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, Relevant organizations and partners

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the February 2010 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/2010/mba-2010-02-en.pdf.

February 2011 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/75386 (2011-059)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, Relevant organizations and partners

The Secretariat is pleased to announce that the February 2011 issue of the Monthly Bulletin of Activities (MBA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity is now available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/mba/2011/mba-2011-02-en.pdf.

Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the concurrent meetings of the Parties to the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/89777 (2021-058)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Part Two)

7 - 19 December 2022, Montreal, Canada

Fifth Conference on Cetacean Conservation in South Mediterranean Countries (CSMC5)

13 - 15 April 2021, Online, Monaco

Fifth Meeting of the Compliance Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

6 - 10 October 2008, Bonn, Germany

Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention (COP5)

10 - 12 October 2017, Lilafured, Hungary

Fifth Negotiating Session / Third Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Convention on Biological Diversity

25 November - 4 December 1991, Geneva, Switzerland

Fifth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)

24 - 28 September 2013, Muscat, Oman

Fifth Session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-5)

7 - 10 March 2017, Bonn, Germany

Fifty-Seventh Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property (WIPO)

2 - 11 October 2017, Geneva, Switzerland

Fifty-eighth meeting of the Implementation Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure for the Montreal Protocol

9 July 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

First Meeting of the Parties to the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures

29 - 31 May 2017, Oslo, Norway

First Session of the Ad Hoc Technical Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (FAO)

11 - 13 September 2012, Svalbard, Norway

First Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Biological Diversity

19 - 23 November 1990, Nairobi, Kenya

First Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Convention on Biological Diversity

11 - 15 October 1993, Geneva, Switzerland

First meeting of biodiversity implementation body recommends ways and means to enhance achievement of global biodiversity targets

The first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 1) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came to a close on 6 May 2016 in Montreal, Canada. Delegates from around the world advanced attention on national action by recommending tools and approaches for implementing the S ...

First meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP1)

24 - 29 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland

First meeting of the inter-agency liaison group on invasive alien species

17 - 18 June 2010, Paris, France

First session of Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on Biological Diversity

16 - 18 November 1988, Geneva, Switzerland

Formalization of the partnership agreement established between the CBD Secretariat and Birdlife International

Reference: SCBD/OES/NP/cr/74590 (2010-226)
To: CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that a partnership agreement established between the CBD Secretariat and Birdlife International to support implementation of the Strategic Plan and attainment of the Aichi-Nagoya targets launched at COP 10 was formalized on 20 December by signature of a Memorandum of U ...

Forty-eighth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 48) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 48) as well as the fifth part of the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-5) of UNFCCC

30 April - 10 May 2018, Bonn, Germany

Forty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 46) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 46) as well as the third part of the first session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-3) (UNFCCC)

8 - 18 May 2017, Bonn, Germany

Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

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

Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14)

7 - 18 October 2019, New Delhi, India

Fourth Meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA)

11 - 15 March 2019, Nairobi, Kenya