The Biodiversity E-learning Platform was established in 2017, with funding from the Government of Japan through the Japan Biodiversity Fund, pursuant to the request made to the Executive Secretary by the Conference of the Parties (decision XII/2 B, paragraph 8e) to promote the use of advanced technologies to further enhance capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation and technology transfer.

The Platform is a customized learning management system (LMS) designed to facilitate access to a wide range of e-learning opportunities relevant to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Protocols.

The e-learning platform hosts the following modules and courses developed in collaboration with partners:

• Access and Benefit-sharing:
  • Introduction to Access and Benefit-Sharing
  • Introduction to the ABS Clearing-House
  • Establishing Measures to Implement the Nagoya Protocol

• Biosafety:
  • Mainstreaming Biosafety
  • Public Awareness, Education and Participation
  • Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of Living Modified Organisms
  • the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress

• Economics, Trade, and Biodiversity:
  • Biodiversity Valuation

Participants can benefit from these e-learning opportunities by signing up for a CBD account and registering for the selected modules.

Other biodiversity-related e-learning courses jointly developed and hosted by partner organizations:

• Communicating the Value of Biodiversity

• Biodiversity Finance

• Sustainable Consumption and Production

• Ecosystem Restoration

• Protected Areas and Sustainable Development

• Peace Park Development and Management

• Understanding Resilience Thinking

• Applying Resilience Thinking to National Biodiversity Plans

• Global Seed Conservation

• Gender and the Environment

• Gender Equality, Women's Empowerment and Leadership in the context of National Biodiversity Planning and Reporting

• Introduction to the Global Environment Facility