Processes and Meetings

Processes and Meetings

The processes and meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity and of its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization provide critical guidance to Parties, IPLCs and other stakeholders on actions to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, while equitably sharing the benefits from the use of genetic resources.

Implementation of the Convention and its Protocols is guided by the advice, recommendations and decisions provided by the Conference of the Parties, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocols, the various subsidiary bodies, open-ended working groups, expert groups and informal advisory committees.

Other processes include national reporting, assessment and review, and the development and implementation of thematic and cross-cutting programmes of work, initiatives and a variety of principles, guidelines, action plans and frameworks.

The current overarching framework for action is the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Governments are in the process of developing a post-2020 global biodiversity framework that will guide actions in the decades to come.

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Upcoming Meetings

Dates and VenueMeeting

November 2023

27 November–1 December 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

December 2023

4 December2023
Online
Confirmed
Fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
11 and 12 December 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
Fourth joint Aarhus Convention and Convention on Biological Diversity round table on public awareness, education, access to information, public participation and access to justice regarding living modified organisms/genetically modified organisms

January 2024

16–19 January 2024
Amman, Jordan
Confirmed
Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for countries in the Middle East and North Africa
23–26 January 2024
Tokyo, Japan
Confirmed
Regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for South and East Asia
29 January 2024
Online
Confirmed
Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
29 January–2 February 2024
Montreal, Canada
Tentative
Second meeting of the multidisciplinary Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology to Support the Process for Broad and Regular Horizon Scanning, Monitoring and Assessment

February 2024

13–15 February 2024
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Fifth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House
19–21 February 2024
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Third meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation

March 2024

4–8 March 2024
Montreal, Canada
Tentative
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment
12–15 March 2024
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confirmed
Sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
25–27 March 2024
Montreal, Canada
Fourth meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

May 2024

13–18 May 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
Confirmed
Twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
21–29 May 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
Confirmed
Fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

August 2024

12–16 August 2024
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

October 2024

16–18 October 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation
21 October–1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
21 October–1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
21 October–1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing