Convention on Biological Diversity

A/RES/51/182View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97c Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 1997.

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?

5 subjects

Biological Diversity Conferences Financing Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the results of the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held at Jakarta from 6 to 17 November 1995, as reflected in the report of the meeting,⁵submitted in accordance with resolution 50/111, and in that context reaffirms the need to take concrete action to fulfil the three objectives of the Convention, and takes note of the Jakarta Mandate on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity,⁶which proposes a framework for global action;

⁵See A/51/312.

⁶Ibid., annex II, decision II/10.

Takes note of the results of the second meeting of the Convention's Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, held at the seat of the secretariat of the Convention at Montreal, Canada, from 2 to 6 September 1996, and of the work carried out at the first meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety, held at Aarhus, Denmark, from 22 to 26 July 1996;

Encourages those States that have not yet ratified the Convention to do so;

Recognizes that States Parties have agreed to provide financial resources for the implementation of the Convention in accordance with article 20, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention;

Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention to provide to the General Assembly at its special session in 1997, inter alia, information on experience gained under the Convention to date and on effective arrangements for the coordination of activities related to the objectives of the Convention;

Welcomes the work being carried out under the Convention to enhance cooperation with the Commission on Sustainable Development and biodiversity-related conventions, and invites the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to take into account the outcome of the 1997 special session at its fourth meeting, when considering ways of promoting greater cooperation with the United Nations system and the international community in relation to activities relevant to the objectives of the Convention;

Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session and, pending the outcome of the 1997 special session, to report to the Assembly on the results of future meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session a sub-item entitled "Convention on Biological Diversity".

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