Convention on Biological Diversity

A/RES/61/204View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 53f Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 2007.

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?

19 subjects

Biological Diversity Biosafety Budget Contributions Capacity Building Developing Countries Financial Assistance Focal Points Genetic Resources Intellectual Property Negotiation Programme Implementation Programme Priorities Resources Allocation Shared Natural Resources Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Technical Cooperation Technology Transfer Traditional Knowledge Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, transmitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session;⁵

⁵A/61/225, sect. III.

Notes the outcome of the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity;⁶

⁶UNEP/CBD/COP/8/31.

Notes also the outcome of the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;⁷

⁷UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/3/15.

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Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environment Facility;

Reiterates the commitment of States parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety⁸ to support the implementation of the Convention and the Protocol, as well as other biodiversity-related agreements and the Johannesburg commitment to a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and to continue to negotiate within the framework of the Convention, bearing in mind the Bonn Guidelines,⁹ an international regime to promote and safeguard the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources, and urges all States to commit to significantly reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010 and to continue ongoing efforts to elaborate and negotiate an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing;

⁸See UNEP/CBD/ExCOP/1/3 and Corr.1, part two, annex.

⁹UNEP/CBD/COP/6/20, annex I, decision VI/24A.

Notes the progress made in the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing towards elaborating and negotiating the international regime, as well as the decision of the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to complete the work of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group at the earliest possible time, before the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to be held in 2010,¹⁰ and urges parties to make every effort to complete the work within the established time frame;

¹⁰UNEP/CBD/COP/8/31, annex I, decision VIII/4A.

Reaffirms the commitment, subject to national legislation, to respect, preserve and maintain the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from their utilization;

Notes the progress made in the thematic programmes of work of the Convention on Biological Diversity;

Notes also the progress made at the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the continuing efforts made towards the implementation of the Protocol, and stresses that this will require the full support of parties and of relevant international organizations, in particular with regard to the provision of assistance to developing countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, in capacity-building for biosafety;

Takes note with appreciation of the outcome of the fourth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility,¹¹ including the pledges made by the international community to the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund, at the third Global Environment Facility Assembly, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2006, and stresses the importance of fulfilment of the commitments;

¹¹Global Environment Facility, document GEF/A.3/6. Available from www.gefweb.org.

Invites the countries that have not yet done so to ratify or to accede to the Convention;

Invites the parties to the Convention that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to consider doing so;

Invites countries to consider ratifying or acceding to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture;¹²

¹²Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Conference of FAO, Thirty-first Session, Rome, 2-13 November 2001 (C 2001/REP), appendix D.

Encourages developed countries parties to the Convention to contribute to the relevant trust funds of the Convention, in particular so as to enhance the full participation of the developing countries parties in all of its activities;

Urges parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to facilitate the transfer of technology for the effective implementation of the Convention in accordance with its provisions;

Takes note of the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,¹³ the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,¹⁴ and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and further encourages continuing cooperation in order to promote complementarities among the secretariats, while respecting their independent legal status;

¹³United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

¹⁴Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480.

Stresses the importance of reducing duplicative reporting requirements of the biodiversity-related conventions, while respecting their independent legal status and their independent mandates;

Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to continue reporting to the General Assembly on the ongoing work regarding the Convention, including its Cartagena Protocol;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”.

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