Convention on Biological Diversity

A/RES/50/111View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 96a Implementation of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

18 versions · 1995–2012

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/66/202

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2012	A/RES/66/202	Convention on Biological Diversity	230	10%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/161	Convention on Biological Diversity	1,730	22%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/203	Convention on Biological Diversity	2,705	33%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/219	Convention on Biological Diversity	2,120	46%Compare
2008	A/RES/62/194	Convention on Biological Diversity	1,210	38%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Biological Diversity Canada Conferences Location of Offices Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the results of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held at Nassau from 28 November to 9 December 1994, as reflected in the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention,⁵ submitted in accordance with paragraph 4 of General Assembly resolution 49/117;

⁵A/50/218.

Takes note that the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity has decided to accept the offer of the Government of Canada to host the secretariat of the Convention, and expresses its appreciation for the support offered by the Canadian authorities to ensure the effective functioning of the secretariat;

Also takes note of the results of the first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, held at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris from 4 to 8 September 1995, including its medium-term programme of work for 1996-1997 and its contribution to the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Panel on Forests of the Commission on Sustainable Development;

Calls upon those States that have not yet ratified the Convention to expedite their internal procedures of ratification, acceptance or approval;

Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to report, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session on the results of the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, held at Jakarta from 6 to 17 November 1995, and also invites the Secretary to make the reports of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention available to the Commission on Sustainable Development.

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