Notification 2023-069

1. Dear Madam/Sir,
2. Reference is made to decision 15/6, in which the Conference of the Parties (COP) adopted an enhanced multidimensional approach to planning, monitoring, reporting and review with a view to enhancing implementation of the Convention and of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. 
3. In this decision, the COP decided to conduct a global review of the collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including the means of implementation, at its seventeenth and nineteenth meetings. In the same decision, the COP mandated the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) to develop the concrete procedures for the global review, including on the use of indicators. The COP also requested the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), at its twenty-fifth meeting, to provide advice on relevant scientific, technical and technological inputs that should inform the global review, for consideration by the SBI.  The COP further requested the Executive Secretary to compile views from Parties on the concrete procedures for the global review, to support the SBI in the development of the procedures.
4. To assist with this process, the Secretariat has prepared a draft document that sets out possible procedures for the global review of progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to be conducted by the COP at its seventeenth meeting. I am pleased to invite Parties to submit views on the proposed procedures outlined in this document, as well as any other views on concrete procedures for the global review of progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Submissions received will be compiled and made available, together with a note by the Secretariat on options for the concrete procedures for the global review of progress, to the SBSTTA at its twenty-fifth meeting, to be held in Nairobi in October 2023. 
5. Submissions should be sent through an official letter addressed to the Executive Secretary by e-mail to secretariat@cbd.int by 31 July 2023.  The draft document, together with a peer review template for submitting comments and views, are available on the Convention website at: https://www.cbd.int/process/peer-review/.  Submissions received will be posted at this same location. 

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

(Signed) David Cooper                                

 Acting Executive Secretary