Notification 2024-110

Dear Sir or Madam,

Following the suspension of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, and the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol (the “Meetings” hereinafter) in Cali, Colombia, the President of the Conference of the Parties, in agreement with the COP Bureau and with the support of the Secretariat, have put in place the following arrangements to complete the work and close the Meetings:

1.) The integrated budget of the Convention and its Protocols will be put forward for adoption by silence procedure from 3 to 6 December 2024 on the basis of the draft decisions contained in the L documents. An additional decision for the Convention and for each of the protocols related to covering the costs of the in-person resumed sessions will also be put forward for adoption by a silence procedure during the same period. Should another silence period be necessary, it would take place from 10 to 13 December 2024. 
2.) All other pending decisions will be considered for adoption during the in-person resumed sessions of the Meetings, to be held in Rome, Italy from 25 to 27 February 2025. The resumed sessions will be preceded by regional consultations on 24 February 2025.
A list of the aforementioned decisions is provided in the Annex.

Further information on these arrangements, including a scenario note for the silence procedures and the annotated agenda and organization of work for the in-person resumed sessions will be made available on the CBD website shortly. Information on registration and logistics will be communicated soon through a separate notification.  

Participation in the resumed sessions requires, consistent with rule 18 of the rules of procedure, the submission of credentials signed or issued either by the Head of State or Government or by the Minister of Foreign Affairs or, in the case of a regional economic integration organization, by the competent authority of that organization. Parties that already submitted valid credentials for their representatives for participation in the Meetings in Cali, Colombia, may confirm that these credentials remain valid. However, new credentials would be needed for any additional delegates nominated by Parties.

Convening these resumed sessions will incur additional costs, both for the organization of the Meetings and for the participation of developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, as well as Parties with economies in transition. Accordingly, I will be inviting Parties in a position to do so to provide additional resources to support the convening of the resumed sessions.

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

(Signed) Astrid Schomaker 
Executive Secretary

Enclosure

Annex

A. Documents to be considered for adoption by silence procedure

Conference of the Parties

CBD/COP/16/L.35/Part.A. Administration of the Convention and budget for the trust funds (item 7)
CBD/COP/16/L.36. Costs of convening an in-person resumed session of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (item 7)

Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

CBD/CP/MOP/11/L.12/Rev.1. Administration of the Protocol and budget for the trust funds (item 6)
CBD/CP/MOP/11/L.13. Costs of convening an in-person resumed session of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (item 6)

Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

CBD/NP/MOP/5/L.14/Rev.1. Administration of the Protocol and budget for the trust funds (item 6)
CBD/NP/MOP/5/L.15. Costs of convening an in-person resumed session of the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (item 6)

B. Documents to be considered for adoption at the in-person resumed meetings

Conference of the Parties

CBD/COP/16/L.26. Monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (item 10)
CBD/COP/16/L.33. Mechanisms for planning, monitoring, reporting and review (item 10)
CBD/COP/16/L.34. Resource mobilization (item 11)
CBD/COP/16/L.31. Financial mechanism (item 11)
CBD/COP/16/L.30. Cooperation with other conventions and international organizations (item 13)
CBD/COP/16/L.23. Multi-year programme of work of the Conference of the Parties (item 28)
CBD/COP/16/L.35/Part.B. Matters related to the appointment of executive secretaries (item 7)
CBD/COP/16/L.1/Rev.1. Report of the meeting

Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

CBD/CP/MOP/11/L.1/Rev.1. Report of the meeting

Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

CBD/NP/MOP/5/L13.  Digital sequence information on genetic resources
CBD/NP/MOP/5/L.1/Rev.1. Report of the meeting

In addition, the three bodies will each consider their respective agenda items on ‘other matters’.