Knowledge Base

Information webinars on the expression of interest process for the Nature4Health initiative

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/MAQ/JG/91953 (2024-108)
To: CBD national focal points

Sr. Ediner Fuentes-Campos

Mr. Robin Gielen

Invitation to submit an Expression of Interest to receive technical support from the NBSAP Accelerator Partnership

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CP/91371 (2024-107)
To: CBD national focal points

Ms. Najneen Perveen

Mr. Md. Sharifuzzaman

World Cities Day

31 October 2024, New York, United States of America

Statement by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Astrid Schomaker, at the closing session of the high-level segment of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, 30 October 2024

Statement by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Astrid Schomaker, at the closing session of the high-level segment of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, 30 October 2024

Mr. Abel Aminu Tanko

Workshop on the Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House

27 October 2024, Cali, Colombia

Sustainable Ocean Initiative regional capacity-building workshop for West Africa and North Africa, 10-13 February 2025 - Dakar, Senegal

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JA/JG/91935 (2024-106)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points of: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives

Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop

26 October 2024, Cali, Colombia

Declaration of the World Coalition for Peace With Nature: A Call for Life - UN Biodiversity Conference 2024, Cali, Colombia

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/CE/91680 (2024-105)
To: CBD national focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points

United Nations Day

24 October 2024, New York, United States of America

Sra. Maria José Mendoza

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, Cali, Colombia

Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

21 October - 1 November 2024, Cali, Colombia

Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

21 October - 1 November 2024, Cali, Colombia

Opening speech by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Astrid Schomaker, for the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 21 October 2024

Opening speech by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Astrid Schomaker, for the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 21 October 2024

Decision 16/5

Institutional arrangements for the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in the work undertaken under the Convention on Biological Diversity

Decision 16/6

Role of people of African descent, comprising collectives embodying traditional lifestyles, in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Opening ceremony of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2024

20 October 2024, Cali, Colombia

Sub-regional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Central, Southern and Eastern Africa, 17 to 20 February 2025 – Nairobi, Kenya

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JM/91934 (2024-104)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania (United Republic of), Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations