Processes and Meetings

Processes and Meetings

The processes and meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity and of its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization provide critical guidance to Parties, IPLCs and other stakeholders on actions to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, while equitably sharing the benefits from the use of genetic resources.

Implementation of the Convention and its Protocols is guided by the advice, recommendations and decisions provided by the Conference of the Parties, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocols, the various subsidiary bodies, open-ended working groups, expert groups and informal advisory committees.

Other processes include national reporting, assessment and review, and the development and implementation of thematic and cross-cutting programmes of work, initiatives and a variety of principles, guidelines, action plans and frameworks.

The current overarching framework for action is the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Governments are in the process of developing a post-2020 global biodiversity framework that will guide actions in the decades to come.

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Upcoming Meetings

Dates and VenueMeeting

October 2023

30 and 31 October 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Global risk assessment workshop
31 October 2023
Online
Webinar: continuous learning through knowledge management: transforming biodiversity management institutions into learning organizations

November 2023

1 and 2 November 2023
Online
Confirmed
New!
Second meeting of the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation
1–3 November 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
First meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment
2 and 3 November 2023
Online
Confirmed
Updated!
Twelfth meeting of the Inter-agency Liaison Group on Invasive Alien Species
7 November 2023
Online
Webinar: leveraging cutting-edge technology for biodiversity knowledge management
9 and 10 November 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
International dialogue with indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant stakeholders on the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Gender Plan of Action
12–16 November 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
Twelfth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity
14–18 November 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
First meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
17–24 November 2023
Online
Confirmed
Online forum of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms
20–24 November 2023
Oslo, Norway
Confirmed
Technical expert workshop to review modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and describing new areas
21 November 2023
Online
Integrating traditional and scientific knowledge for biodiversity conservation
22–24 November 2023
Rome, Italy
Confirmed
Workshop to develop a road map for supporting the implementation and monitoring of and capacity development for ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
23–27 November 2023
Oslo, Norway
Confirmed
Legal expert workshop to review modalities for modifying the descriptions of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas and describing new areas
27 November–1 December 2023
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Technical Expert Group on Financial Reporting

December 2023

11 and 12 December 2023
Geneva, Switzerland
Confirmed
New!
Fourth joint Aarhus Convention and Convention on Biological Diversity round table on public awareness, education, access to information, public participation and access to justice regarding living modified organisms/genetically modified organisms

January 2024

29 January–2 February 2024
Montreal, Canada
Tentative
Second meeting of the multidisciplinary Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology to Support the Process for Broad and Regular Horizon Scanning, Monitoring and Assessment

February 2024

13–15 February 2024
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Fifth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee to the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House

March 2024

4–8 March 2024
Montreal, Canada
Tentative
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment
25–27 March 2024
Montreal, Canada
Fourth meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

May 2024

13–18 May 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
Confirmed
Twenty-sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
21–29 May 2024
Nairobi, Kenya
Confirmed
Fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

August 2024

12–16 August 2024
Montreal, Canada
Confirmed
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources

October 2024

16–18 October 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Fifth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation
21 October–1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
21 October–1 November 2024
Venue to be determined
Tentative
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
Venue to be determined
Tentative
Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing