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ONLINE FORUM ON INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES 2025
In paragraph 10(b) of decision 16/18, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested the Executive Secretary to hold an open-ended online forum to facilitate the exchange of information and experiences on:
- work carried out by Parties and stakeholders, including on tools and mechanisms used, challenges and best practices with regard to the prevention, management, control and eradication of invasive alien species, towards the implementation of Target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, in particular to facilitate international and regional cooperation; and
- approaches that can be taken to facilitate a collaborative response to biological invasions and the threats and impacts of invasive alien species, and how those individual approaches could be integrated into the One Health approach.
Pursuant to the above-noted request, the Secretariat issued notification 2025-021, inviting Parties, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations to participate in this process.
OPERATION OF THE FORUM
Schedule
The online forum will be open on 7 April at 10 a.m. Montreal time (EDT), and it will close on 25 April at 5 p.m. Montreal time (EDT) as per notification 2025-036. Participants will be able to post their interventions at any time during that period.
How to participate
Participants must sign in using a CBD account to post comments or questions on the forum.
The forum will be organized according to specific threads (topics). Participants will be invited to consider a number of guiding questions under the threads of the forum, and to post comments and engage in the discussions throughout the duration of the forum. All threads will be active during the entire forum period.
If you encounter technical difficulties or if you have any questions about the operation of the forum, please send an e-mail to: SECRETARIAT@cbd.int
Forum Guidelines
During the forum, participants are invited to:
- Briefly introduce themselves when posting their first message, including their name, country and institutional affiliation;
- Keep their messages short, concise and focused;
- Ensure that the messages are relevant to the topic/question being discussed;
- Make the subject header of your post as descriptive as possible about the content of the message so that other participants can easily decide which messages to read and respond to;
- When submitting comments, be as specific as possible, including when providing concrete text proposals for their inputs;
- Make sure that the text or files attached (if any) do not contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar file deficiencies;
- Be respectful of others’ viewpoints.
