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CBD Communiqué: Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization




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CBD News: The new Indian Minister of Environment and Forests, HE Jayanthi Natarajan, invites all Parties to the high-level segment of COP-11 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre from 17 to 19 October 2012 highlighting five key issues for discussio




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CBD Communiqué: Japan Airlines introduces United Nations Decade on Biodiversity logo on special "Eco Jet"




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Central Asian Regional Capacity-Building Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 October 2011




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CBD Communiqué: Regional workshop for Central Asia on updating NBSAPs




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CBD Press Release: Scientific body of global biodiversity treaty discusses biodiversity indicators at Montreal meeting




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CBD News: Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, at the Opening Session of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Montreal, 7 November 2011.




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CBD Press Release: Gabon becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources




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CBD Press Release: Latvia becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress




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CBD Press Release: Jordan becomes first country in the Arab region to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources




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CBD Press Release: Rwanda third country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources




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CBD Press Release: Seychelles fourth country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources




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CBD News: Statement by Mr Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-16), 30 April 2012, in Montreal




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Review of Implementation of the Convention, Montreal, Canada, 7 May 2012




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Sub-Regional Workshop for Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia on Capacity-Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protec




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CBD Press Release: Future Policy Award celebrates solutions to save oceans and coasts: 31 policies from 22 countries and regions nominated




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CBD Press Release: Montreal, 6 July 2012. With a spirit of compromise and constructive engagement, Governments concluded a week-long meeting where they advanced in the preparations for the entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-shar




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CBD Press Release: How can we save the world's oceans and coasts? Five countries' ocean and coastal policies shortlisted for the 2012 Future Policy Award.




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CBD News: The New Delhi ASEAN-India Ministerial Statement on Biodiversity: Ministers responsible for the environment and their representatives of India and ASEAN countries have agreed to enhance awareness among all stakeholders, strive towards mainstreami




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CBD Press Release: Tokyo/Montreal 20 September 2012 - The winners of the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity have been announced today in Tokyo.




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CBD Press Release: Montreal, 27 September 2012 - Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic is the sixth country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Co




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CBD Communiqué: Hyderabad, 27 September 2012 - Some 2000 delegates from more than 150 countries will convene this coming Monday in Hyderabad, India, for the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the C




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CBD Press Release: At United Nations Biodiversity Conference, countries agree to double resources for biodiversity protection by 2015 - Special attention for biodiversity-rich marine areas among other key outcomes.




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the United Nations Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples' Issues, Montreal, Canada, 28 November 2012




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Montreal Council of Foreign Relations, Montreal, Canada, 28 November 2012




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CBD Press Release: Panama and Mauritius have become the 10th and 11th countries respectively to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Bi




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CBD News: Biodiversity at the centre of sustainable development: CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias briefs UN Secretary-General, senior UN officials.




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CBD Press Release: Maldives responds to Hyderabad Call for Biodiversity Champions: Entire country to become UNESCO Biosphere Reserve by 2017




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CBD News: Albania, Botswana and the Federated States of Micronesia have become the 13th 14th and 15th countries to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to t




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CBD News: An informal meeting for government experts and relevant stakeholders to discuss model contractual clauses, voluntary codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards, as set out in Articles 19 and 20 of the Nagoya Protocol on Acc




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the opening of the Global Taxonomy Initiative Capacity Building Workshop towards Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 9 and 19 for Western and Central Africa, Dakar, Senegal,




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CBD News: Message of the CBD Executive Secretary, Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of the AMERICANA 2013, 19 March 2013, Montreal Canada




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Inception Workshop for the Project to Support the Ratification and Entry into Force of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, Addis Ababa, Eth




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CBD News: Biodiversity Indicator Facilitators are now available to support the development and use of biodiversity indicators as part of NBSAP updating in their countries and regions. The Facilitators have been selected and trained by the Biodiversity Ind




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CBD News: Honduras and Tajikistan became the most recent countries to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity.




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CBD News: Under the theme, 10 Years of Promoting Safety in the Use of Biotechnology, the international community is marking the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the international agreement governing the movement of living modified organisms (L




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CBD News: Germany and Cambodia, on 27 and 30 August 2013 respectively, became the most recent countries to ratify/accede to the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, at the Opening of the Regional Workshop for the Caribbean Countries on the Preparation of the Fifth National Report and the Regional Workshop for the Caribbean Countries on the




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CBD News: With five new ratifications, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization has taken a big step towards entry into force.




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferrera de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Eighth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions, Montreal, 7 October 2013




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CBD News: Governments and indigenous and local communities at the Eighth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions, held in Montreal, Canada, have reaffirmed the need to recognize and integrate traditional knowl




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Opening Session of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (Sbstta-17) Montreal, 14 October 2013




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CBD News: The Government of Austria has approved a funding package worth US$2.2 million through the LifeWeb Initiative to help implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in four countries.




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CBD News: The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) has been declared a Biodiversity Champion by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in recognition of its important contribution to the implementation of the Convention's Strateg




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CBD News: The World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA) has been declared a Biodiversity Champion by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in recognition of its important contribution to the implementation of th




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CBD News: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has welcomed the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ for its potential to contribute both to climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation.




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CBD News: The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress reaches the halfway mark to entry into force with ratification by Hungary.




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CBD News: Montreal, 20 December 2013 - With a new ratification, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization is ending the year with another step toward entry into force.




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CBD News: Three new ratifications to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization provide significant momentum towards its entry into force. The recent ratifications by Be




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CBD News: Governments have established firm foundations for the operation of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources, contributing to the momentum towards entry into force and setting the agenda for the first meeting of its