2025 2025-10-27
| 2025-135 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JA/MG/MS/92511)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points, PoWPA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
Submission of views and information relating to the strategic review and analysis of the current Programme of work on protected areas (PowPA) in the context of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Subject(s): Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation
Action required by 2025-12-15 |
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2025-10-26
| 2025-134 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JC/LJ/92448)
Notification to: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, State of Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
NEW DATES: Subregional dialogue on biodiversity monitoring and reporting for countries in Western Asia, 21-23 December 2025 – Manama, Bahrain
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), National Reports
Action required by 2025-11-07 |
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2025-10-22
| 2025-133 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MR/MW/92513)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and relevant organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House national focal points
Online discussions of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-11-19 |
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2025-10-20
| 2025-132 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JEC/AC/92500)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, SBSTTA focal points, CHM focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth organizations and relevant organizations
Commitments from actors other than national Governments towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), National Reports
Action required by 2026-02-28 |
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2025-10-19
| 2025-131 (SCBD/IMS/AN/CR/92465)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Invitation to submit relevant information on cooperation with conventions and international organizations
Subject(s): Cooperation and Partnerships
Action required by 2025-11-20 |
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2025-10-14
| 2025-130 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JC/LJ/92506)
Notification to: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Bahrain, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, State of Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
Subregional dialogue on biodiversity monitoring and reporting for countries in Western Asia, 1-3 December 2025 – Manama, Bahrain
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), National Reports
Action required by 2025-10-20 |
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2025-10-14
| 2025-129 (SCBD/ABS/TS/BG/GT/ 92454)
Notification to: ABS national focal points and CBD national focal points (where ABS focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Update: Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House
Subject(s): Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing |
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2025-10-09
| 2025-127 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JEC/KM/LJ/92386)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points, TK focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Extension of deadline: Invitation to submit case studies and other information on relevant traditional knowledge, innovations, practices and technology of indigenous peoples and local communities for the global report on collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices - Article 8(j)
Action required by 2025-10-26 |
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2025-10-08
| 2025-128 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JA/MG/MS/92496)
Notification to: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Sub-regional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Central Asia, 6 to 8 December 2025 – Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Subject(s): Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Action required by 2025-11-01 |
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2025-10-03
| 2025-126 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JEC/KM/LJ/92386)
Notification to: Relevant organizations, including Secretariats of biodiversity-related conventions and other relevant multilateral environmental agreements, and indigenous peoples and local communities
Extension of deadline: Invitation to submit relevant information to support the production of the global report on collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Action required by 2025-10-29 |
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2025-10-03
| 2025-125 (SCBD/SSSF/PBU/SS/OR/QC/TM/92402)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Gender focal points, TK focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations.
Extension of deadline: Submission of views and information in preparation for the mid-term review of the Gender Plan of Action 2023-2030
Subject(s): Gender and Biodiversity, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Action required by 2025-10-10 |
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2025-10-03
| 2025-124 (SCBD/OES/ASc/IKM/92458)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Reminder and extension of deadline: Submission of views on options to further improve the effectiveness of meetings under the Convention and its Protocols
Subject(s): Operations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Convention on Biological Diversity
Action required by 2025-10-21 |
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2025-09-29
| 2025-123 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JC/LJ/92448)
Notification to: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
Subregional dialogue on biodiversity monitoring and reporting for countries in the Caribbean, 1-5 December 2025 – Paramaribo, Suriname
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), National Reports
Action required by 2025-10-07 |
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2025-09-26
| 2025-122 (SCBD/SSSF/BETI/ML/AFI/92479)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, resource mobilization national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, women and youth organizations, relevant organizations and initiatives and relevant stakeholders
Survey for study on safeguards in biodiversity finance mechanisms
Subject(s): Financial Resources and Mechanism
Action required by 2025-10-25 |
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2025-09-25
| 2025-121 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/OR/QC/TM/92471)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points,
TK focal points, indigenous peoples and local community organizations, and relevant organizations
Selected representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities to receive funding for their participation in the twenty-seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and the first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Subject(s): Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) |
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2025-09-23
| 2025-120 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/MS/92475)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Pilot modalities for the early submission of statements for SBSTTA 27
Subject(s): Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
Action required by 2025-10-19 |
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2025-09-23
| 2025-119 (SCBD/ABS/TS/BG/GT/ 92454)
Notification to: ABS national focal points and CBD national focal points (where ABS focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House
Subject(s): Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing |
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2025-09-23
| 2025-118 (SCBD/ABS/TS/BG/GT/90801)
Notification to: ABS national focal points and CBD national focal points (where ABS focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee on Capacity-building for the Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Subject(s): Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing |
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2025-09-17
| 2025-116 (SCBD/OES/JL/CE/92467)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points
Online Training Course on Multilateral Negotiations, 2 October 2025
Subject(s): Capacity-building, Conference of the Parties, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-09-30 |
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2025-09-16
| 2025-117 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JC/NS/JM/RK/92407)
Notification to: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols and SBSTTA focal points of Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela
Subregional dialogue for Latin American countries on biodiversity monitoring and reporting with a focus on ecosystem restoration (Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework), 17 - 20 November 2025, Bogotá, Colombia
Subject(s): Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), National Reports, Ecosystem Restoration
Action required by 2025-09-26 |
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2025-09-09
| 2025-115 (SCBD/IMS/AN/JC/LJ/92448)
Notification to: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Regional dialogue on biodiversity monitoring and reporting with a focus on biodiversity and health for countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, 25 to 28 November 2025 – Yerevan, Armenia
Subject(s): Identification, Monitoring and Indicators, National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP), National Reports, Health and Biodiversity, Global Biodiversity Outlook, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Action required by 2025-10-01 |
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2025-09-09
| 2025-114 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JAn/JA/JG/90829)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA focal points, marine and coastal biodiversity focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations/initiatives
Composition of the Informal Advisory Group for Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity |
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2025-09-09
| 2025-113 (SCBD/ABS/TS/MD/GT/92451)
Notification to: ABS national focal points, CBD national focal points where ABS national focal points have not yet been designated, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Survey to support the review of the operation and implementation of the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House
Subject(s): Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing
Action required by 2025-12-31 |
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2025-09-04
| 2025-112 (SCBD/OES/ASc/IKM/92458)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Submission of views on options to further improve the effectiveness of meetings under the Convention and its Protocols
Subject(s): Operations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Convention on Biological Diversity
Action required by 2025-10-03 |
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2025-09-04
| 2025-111 (SCBD/SSSF/SS/JA/JG/92461)
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
Submission of new descriptions, and of modifications to existing descriptions, of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas within national jurisdiction for potential consideration at the twenty-eighth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
Subject(s): Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Action required by 2025-09-30 |
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