SBSTTA-27 and SB8J-1
20 - 30 October 2025 - Panama City, Panama
Contact: mea-cbd-media@un.org
SB8J-1 -Press releases and media advisories
Press release Comunicado de prensa (31 Oct 2025)
Press release Comunicado de prensa (27 Oct 2025)
[UN Web TV recording] opening press conference
SBSTTA-27 - Press releases and media advisories
Press release (25 October 2025): “Blueprint agreed in Panama for next year’s global review of collective progress towards halting and reversing biodiversity loss”
[UN Web TV recording] Media briefing on biodiversity and climate change
Transcript: opening press conference of SBSTTA-27 (20 Oct 2025)
Press release (17 October 2025)
Media advisory and accreditation procedure Aviso a los medios y procedimiento de acreditación (17 Jul 2025)
Social media assets
#SBSTTA27 Trello board
#SB8J_1 Trello board
CBD Press conferences
All press conferences will be broadcast live via UN Web TV.
● SBSTTA-27 Opening day press conference: 20 October 2025, starting at 9 am Panama time (10 a.m. US EDT / 4 p.m. CEST). To join the interactive Zoom feed, media representatives are invited to register.
● SB8j-1 Opening day press conference: 27 October 2025, starting at 9 am Panama time (10 am US EDT / 4 pm CEST). To join the interactive Zoom feed, media representatives are invited to register.
Thematic briefing on the linkages between biodiversity loss and climate change
Are you interested in probing the linkages between biodiversity loss and climate change, and how ongoing efforts to foster synergy between CBD and UNFCCC can be leveraged for impactful national and global action? Register for the in-person and online briefing on biodiversity and climate change by Tristan Tyrrell, Programme Management Officer, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Dry and Sub-humid Lands, Secretariat of the CBD, on 23 October 2025, starting at 9 am Panama time (10 am US EDT / 4 pm CEST).
The briefing will take place and be live streamed form Panama City on the sidelines of the CBD SBSTTA-27 meeting. It is organized jointly with Nature for Climate, the Belem Desk and the UNEP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Media representatives wishing to take part are invited to register.
Pre-meeting briefing
On 29 September 2025 the Secretariat held a global media briefing on the meetings and their expected outcomes.
ENB Coverage
Follow detailed reports and updates from the sessions through the Earth Negotiations Bulletin via https://enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidiary-body-scientific-technical-technological-advice-sbstta27-sbi4-sb8j1.