Notification 2024-099

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Ad-Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-Sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources (Working Group), at its second meeting in August 2024, adopted recommendation 2/1 on the further development of the multilateral mechanism for benefit-sharing from the use of digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources, including a global fund, for consideration at the upcoming sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

The Secretariat and the co-chairs of the Committee of the Whole of the working group are convening a number of webinars to provide further information that may be useful to support Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and stakeholders in their preparation for the meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

The webinars’ schedule and registration links are attached in the annex to the present notification.  Further information can be found here. Each webinar is scheduled to last between 45 and 90 minutes and will be conducted in English only. The webinars will be recorded and made available on the CBD website.

For any inquiries, please contact the Secretariat at secretariat@cbd.int.

 I look forward to your active participation in these important webinars.

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

(Signed) Astrid Schomaker 
Executive Secretary
 

Enclosure: Annex to the notification