2025 2025-11-01
| 2025-138 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JA/JG/92484)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Invitation to comment on submissions of new descriptions and modifications to existing descriptions
of areas meeting the criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs)
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2026-05-01 |
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2025-09-09
| 2025-114 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JAn/JA/JG/90829)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA focal points, marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Composition of the Informal Advisory Group for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2025-09-04
| 2025-111 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JA/JG/92461)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Submission of new descriptions, and of modifications to existing descriptions, of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas within national jurisdiction for potential consideration at the twenty-eighth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2025-09-30 |
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2025-08-06
| 2025-102 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JA/JG/92375)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, Protected Areas Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Expert workshop on scientific and technical work conducted under the Convention on Biological Diversity relevant to marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction, 2 to 5 December 2025 - Bergen, Norway
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2025-09-15 |
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2025-05-02
| 2025-064 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JG/90829)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA focal points, CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Call for Nominations for the Informal Advisory Group for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2025-06-13 |
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2025-03-28
| 2025-041 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/92135)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Registration for an information webinar to provide an overview of the modalities for the modification of existing descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and the description of new areas
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2025-03-17
| 2025-034 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JA/JG/92135)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Submission of new descriptions, and modifications to existing descriptions, of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas, and webinar and handbook regarding the process for these submissions
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2024 2024-10-27
| 2024-106 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JA/JG/91935)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points of: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Sustainable Ocean Initiative regional capacity-building workshop for West Africa and North Africa, 10-13 February 2025 - Dakar, Senegal
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2024-12-01 |
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2024-08-05
| 2024-082 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JA/MZ/91827)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Information webinar on the results of the strategic reviews and analyses of the programme of work on marine and coastal biodiversity and the programme of work on island biodiversity, 12 September 2024
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, Island Biodiversity |
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2024-03-27
| 2024-029 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/91606)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Webinar to provide an overview of the draft modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) and describing new areas, 17 April 2024
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2024-01-25
| 2024-009 (SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91504)
Notification 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
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
Subject(s): National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Capacity-building, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Financial Resources and Mechanism, Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation, Agricultural Biodiversity, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2024-02-16 |
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2023 2023-08-31
| 2023-096 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/91257)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Call for Nominations for the Technical and Legal Expert Workshops to Review Modalities for Modifying the Descriptions of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas and Describing New Areas, Norway, 20 – 24 November and 23 – 27 November 2023, respectively
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2023-09-30 |
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2023-06-16
| 2023-065 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/90829)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, and Marine and Coastal Biodiversity national focal points; relevant organizations; and indigenous peoples and local communities
Composition of the informal advisory group for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2023-05-02
| 2023-049 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JA/JMQ/90975)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points of: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Indonesia, India, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, Viet Nam, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) regional capacity-building workshop for East, South and South-East Asia, 5-8 September 2023 - Seoul, Republic of Korea
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2023-07-15 |
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2023-03-17
| 2023-029 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JMQ/90790)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points and CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points from developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
NEW DATES: Sustainable Ocean Initiative Workshop on Ocean-related Capacity-building Needs for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 5-9 June 2023, virtual
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2023-04-30 |
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2023-03-03
| 2023-022 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JMQ/90790)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points and CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points from developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Call for information to support the discussions of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative Workshop on Ocean-related Capacity-building Needs for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 24-28 April 2023, virtual
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2023-03-29 |
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2023-02-24
| 2023-016 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JMQ/90790)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points and CBD marine and coastal biodiversity focal points from developing countries, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Sustainable Ocean Initiative Workshop on ocean-related capacity-building needs for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 24-28 April 2023, virtual
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2023-03-31 |
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2023-02-22
| 2023-014 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JG/90829)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Call for Nominations for the Informal Advisory Group for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2023-04-06 |
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2022 2022-10-11
| 2022-063 (SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/90585)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and relevant organizations
Workshop on indicators of the effectiveness of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (31 October and 2 November 2022); Webinar on Ecological Connectivity - Insights for post-2020 indicators (31 October 2022)
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity, Post-2020 framework |
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2022-09-08
| 2022-056 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/90316)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; indigenous peoples and local communities; and relevant organizations
Selected participants for the online discussion forum on ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in preparation for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2022-07-28
| 2022-047 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JM/90316)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; indigenous peoples and local communities; and relevant organizations
Online Discussion Forum on ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in preparation for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2022-08-24 |
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2022-06-16
| 2022-039 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/JG/90395)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; indigenous peoples and local communities; and relevant organizations
Information webinar on the outcomes of the online discussion forum on conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity in preparation for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, 20 June 2022
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2022-06-03
| 2022-037 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JMQ/90315)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; indigenous peoples and local communities; and relevant organizations
Selected participants for the Online Discussion Forum on conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity in preparation for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2022-06-03
| 2022-036 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JMQ/90315)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; indigenous peoples and local communities; and relevant organizations
Postponement of the online discussion forum on conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity in preparation for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. New dates: 8-15 June 2022
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2022-05-17
| 2022-028 (SCBD/SSSF/JL/JA/JG/90315)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points; Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points; SBSTTA Focal Points; indigenous peoples and local communities; and relevant organizations
Online Discussion Forum on conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity in preparation for the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2022-05-30 |
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