Press Release

Cities and the United Nations pulling together for biodiversity: Global partnership meets in Bonn

Montreal, 15 September 2011— At an international strategic meeting, held in the Old Town Hall, Bonn, on 5-6 September 2011, Bonn Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf invited the members of the Global Partnership on Local and Sub-National Action for Biodiversity to work on an implementation plan for cities to support decision X/22 of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, which defined a strategy for its 193 members to implement its decisions at local and sub-national levels.

Publication Date
2011-09-15