This decision has been retired.
Contribution of the Convention on Biological Diversity to
the ten-year review of progress achieved since the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development
The Conference of the Parties,
Recognizing the importance of the forthcoming ten-year review of
progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development, scheduled for the year 2002,
1. Welcomes General Assembly resolution 54/218, in which the General
Assembly, inter alia, invited the secretariat of the Convention to provide
reports on how its activities are contributing to the implementation of
Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, for
the consideration of the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session,
2. Also welcomes the invitation of the Commission on Sustainable
Development extended to secretariats of UNCED-related conventions to support
preparatory activities of the ten-year review, and to review and assess their
respective programmes of work since United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development;
3. Requests the Executive Secretary to support such preparatory
activities and, in particular, to report to the Commission on Sustainable
Development on progress made in the implementation of the Convention;
4. Encourages Parties, Governments and countries to highlight and
emphasize biological diversity considerations in their contributions to the
ten-year review
