Notification 2019-115

Madam/Sir,

            Reference is made to notification 2019-108, sent on 3 December 2019, regarding an invitation to submit views on possible targets, indicators and baselines for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

            Further to this invitation, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) requested the Executive Secretary, in recommendation 23/2, to invite written submissions from Parties and others, seeking views on possible targets and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework related to the interlinkages and interdependencies between biodiversity and climate change, compile the views submitted and make them available for the consideration of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at its upcoming meetings and the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice at its twenty-fourth meeting.

            I am pleased to invite you, as part of your submission in response to notification 2019-108, to take into account the above invitation from recommendation 23/2 and provide views on possible targets and indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework related to the interlinkages and interdependencies between biodiversity and climate change. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to secretariat@cbd.int by 3 February 2020.

Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema

Acting Executive Secretary