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

June 2023

5 - 9 June 2023
Online
Confirmed
Sustainable Ocean Initiative Workshop on Ocean-related Capacity-building Needs for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
12 - 14 June 2023
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confirmed
Development of a global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
14 - 16 June 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
First meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation
20 - 22 June 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Informal Advisory Committee on Capacity-building for the Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol

July 2023

11 - 13 July 2023
Manaus, Brazil
Confirmed
New!
Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on the New Programme of Work and Institutional Arrangements on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
11 - 14 July 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Updated!
First 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

August 2023

1 - 3 August 2023
Online
Confirmed
Intersessional workshop of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative Global Dialogue with Regional Seas Organizations and Regional Fishery Bodies

September 2023

5 - 8 September 2023
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Confirmed
Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) regional capacity-building workshop for East, South and South-East Asia
25 - 29 September 2023
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Resource Mobilization

October 2023

14 October 2023
Nairobi, Kenya
Tentative
Workshop on recently completed IPBES assessments
16 - 19 October 2023
Nairobi, Kenya
Confirmed
Twenty-fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

November 2023

9 - 11 November 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Tentative
International dialogue with indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant stakeholders on the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Gender Plan of Action
12 - 16 November 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
Twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity
14 - 18 November 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
First meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

May 2024

13 - 17 May 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
20 - 23 May 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
25 - 31 May 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

October 2024

16 - 18 October 2024
Venue to be determined
Türkiye
Tentative
Fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation
21 October - 1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Türkiye
Tentative
Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
21 October - 1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Türkiye
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
Türkiye
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