2020 | 2020-06-30 | The City of Montreal, with the support of ICLEI-Cities Biodiversity Center and the SCBD, through the #CitiesWithNature initiative, developed short briefing sheets about inspiring examples for communities to act to protect biodiversity in our cities |  en
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| 2020-06-29 | Sierra Leone acceded to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on 15 June 2020 | en
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| 2020-06-08 | Elizabeth Maruma Mrema appointed head of UN Biodiversity Convention. |  en
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| 2020-06-03 | UN Biodiversity lead welcomes new head of Global Environment Facility | en
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| 2020-05-29 | UN Biodiversity Convention on track to develop ambitious post-2020
global biodiversity framework. | en
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| 2020-05-19 | World celebrates nature as a source of solutions to global challenges. | en
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| 2020-04-21 | Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Earth Day | en
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| 2020-04-21 | Colombia ratified the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress on 14 April 2020 | en
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| 2020-04-13 | Issue 9 of the BioCap Newsletter, the Biodiversity Capacity Development Update, is now available (biosafety updates on page 3 and 9) | en
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| 2020-04-07 | Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day | en
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| 2020-04-02 | Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) permanent subsidiary bodies originally scheduled for May 2020 and then rescheduled for August/September 2020 will now take place in August 2020. | en
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| 2020-03-17 | Due to the evolving nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has moved to hold many meetings virtually and has postponed others. | en
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| 2020-03-09 | Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Subregional Exchange for the Caribbean on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems, 9-13 March 2020 | en
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| 2020-03-09 | Subregional exchange for the Caribbean on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems | en
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| 2020-03-03 | Joining the global celebration of the United Nations World Wildlife Day, representatives of UN Member States, UN System organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, rural communities and youth gathered at the UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva to mark the day at two high-level events. | en
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| 2020-03-01 | Governments advance in the preparation of a New UN Biodiversity Framework;
Negotiations in Rome demonstrate engagement across government and society | en
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| 2020-02-24 | Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, for the opening of the Second Meeting of the Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Monday, 24 February 2020, Rome | en
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| 2020-02-24 | Over 1000 delegates from more than 140 countries started negotiations today at FAO headquarters, Rome on the zero draft of a landmark post-2020 global biodiversity framework and targets for nature to 2030. | en
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| 2020-01-31 | Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Wetlands Day | en
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| 2020-01-31 | Due to the ongoing situation following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in consultation with the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the COP (Conference of the Parties) Presidency and the Co-Chairs of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (WG2020-2), has decided that the second meeting of the Working Group will take place in Rome, Italy at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the same dates, 24 – 29 February 2020. | en
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| 2020-01-29 | Twenty years ago, on 29 January 2000, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol entered into force on 11 September 2003. | en
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| 2020-01-27 | Registration open for the GloFouling free webinar: “Impacts of biofouling in marine aquaculture” on 30 Jan 2020 from 9:00 a.m. GMT | en
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| 2020-01-22 | BIOSCAN: not only science but participatory species discovery to complete Library of Life with scientists, park rangers, indigenous peoples, citizens who are revealing biodiversity | en
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| 2020-01-16 | BioAlfa project, in collaboration with the International Barcode of Life Consortium (BIOSCAN), catalogues 1 million insect specimens in Costa Rica | en
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