The Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation (TSC-IAG) was established by the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to provide strategic advice to the Executive Secretary and to relevant bodies under the Convention and its Protocols on practical measures, tools, and opportunities to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation, technology transfer, capacity development, knowledge management and the clearing-house mechanism in support of the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.