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Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for South and East Asia

23 - 26 January 2024, Tokyo, Japan

First meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

23 January 2024, Online

Extension of deadline: Submission of information on best practices for sustainable wildlife management and views on areas that require complementary guidance

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/MCa/VA/91359 (2024-008)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, and Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF for the Caribbean Countries, 15-19 April 2024 - Georgetown, Guyana

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91504 (2024-009)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago

Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

29 January 2024, Online

Second meeting of the multidisciplinary Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology to Support the Process for Broad and Regular Horizon Scanning, Monitoring and Assessment

29 January - 2 February 2024, Montreal, Canada

Ms. Janina Bethge

Invitation to participate in the peer review of the draft Knowledge Management Strategy to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/AP/FV/DM/91417 (2024-010)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, CHM focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Ms. Iva Reimers-Roberto

Sra. Isabel Guadalupe Contreras

World Wetlands Day

2 February 2024, Gland, Switzerland

6th Joint Work Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on Wetlands

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/IMS/JL/NP/MK/91533 (2024-011)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations; Convention on Wetlands Focal Points and international organization partners

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2024

Registration for the twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 26), 13–18 May 2024 and the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4), 21 to 29 May 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/IMS/JL/NP/91510 (2024-012)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Madame Saida El Jai

Online discussion of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

7 - 21 February 2024, Online

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the 66th GEF Council Meeting, 7 February 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the 66th GEF Council Meeting, 7 February 2023

M. Nabil Medaghri Alaoui

Invitation to participate in a survey on capacity needs of Parties with respect to the headline indicators of the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/91530 (2024-013)
To: CBD focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points cc: Indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organization

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the First meeting of the GBF Fund Council, 8 February 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the First meeting of the GBF Fund Council, 8 February 2024

Mr. Alexander Verkerk

Mr. Kumar Mambetaliev

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2024

Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP14)

12 - 17 February 2024, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Fifth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House

13 - 15 February 2024, Montreal, Canada

Webinar to celebrate 10 years of the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative on the occasion of the International Day of Forests, 21 March 2024, online

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/LJ/91539 (2024-014)
To: CBD national focal points and SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives, cc: Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points

Second meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

15 February 2024, Online

Extension of deadline: Peer review of the draft literature review of trends and issues in synthetic biology (2012–2023)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91494 (2024-015)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points, ABS national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Regional Dialogues on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for African Countries, 30 May to 2 June 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91545 (2024-016)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania (United Republic of), Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Ireland

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (v.4)

Third meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation

19 - 21 February 2024, Montreal, Canada

Registration for side-events at the twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 26), 13–18 May 2024, and the fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4), 21-29 May 2024, Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/IMS/JL/NP/91510 (2024-018)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Information workshop on the work of the ad hoc technical expert groups on the monitoring framework, synthetic biology and risk assessment, 11 May 2024 – Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/VA/91510 (2024-017)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Extension of deadline: Submission of views related to the work programme of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and its contribution to support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/91497 (2024-019)
To: CBD focal points, SBSTTA focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Second meeting of the Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

26 February - 1 March 2024, Istanbul, Türkiye

Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

27 February - 1 March 2024, Montreal, Canada

Sr. Eduardo Silva Besa

Extension of Deadline: 6th Joint Work Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on Wetlands

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/IMS/JL/NP/MK/91533 (2024-020)
To: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations; Convention on Wetlands Focal Points and international organization partners

International Youth Conference on Biodiversity, Yokohama, Japan 2024

International Youth Conference on Biodiversity, Yokohama, Japan 2024

Global capacity-building workshop on operationalizing access and benefit-sharing national frameworks under the Nagoya Protocol, 30 September to 3 October 2024 - Bonn, Germany

Reference: SCBD/NPU/DC/TS/MD/GT/91532 (2024-022)
To: CBD national focal points and ABS national focal points

Extension of Deadline: Fifth Call for Proposals under the Bio-Bridge Initiative

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/KT/CPa/91470 (2024-021)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, Clearing-House Mechanism national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Mr. Lasse Kurvinen

World Wildlife Day

3 March 2024, Geneva, Switzerland

Theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May 2024)

Reference: SCBD/OES/DAIN/FD/91541 (2024-023)
To: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Wildlife Day, 3 March 2024