Convention on Biological Diversity

A/RES/56/197View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98d Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 2002.

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?

15 subjects

Biological Diversity Biosafety Calendar of Meetings Conferences Coordination Within UN System Decision-Making Environmental Agreements Financial Flows Financial Institutions Forests Intellectual Property International Instruments Non-Governmental Organizations Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Subsidiary Bodies

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as submitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session;⁴

⁴See A/56/126.

Notes the outcome of the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, which addresses the appropriate access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of its utilization, hosted by the Government of Germany from 22 to 26 October 2001;

Also notes the outcome of the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held at Nairobi from 1 to 5 October 2001;

Welcomes the fact that one hundred and eighty-one States and one regional economic integration organization have become parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity,Error: Reference source not found and urges States that have not joined the Convention to become parties to it, without further delay;

Calls upon parties to the Convention to become parties to the Cartagena Protocol on BiosafetyError: Reference source not found as soon as possible;

Encourages the conferences of the parties to, and the secretariats of, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,⁵ the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa,⁶ and other international instruments related to the environment and sustainable development, as well as relevant organizations, especially the United Nations Environment Programme, including, as appropriate, the involvement of the Environmental Management Group, to continue their work on enhancing mutual complementarities, with full respect for the status of the secretariats of the conventions and the autonomous decision-making prerogatives of the conferences of the parties to the conventions concerned, to strengthen cooperation with a view to facilitating progress in the implementation of those conventions at the international, regional and national levels and to report thereon to their respective conferences of the parties;

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

⁶Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480.

Welcomes the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity regarding its programme of work for forest biological diversity, and encourages the parties to and the secretariat of the Convention to cooperate with the United Nations Forum on Forests, inter alia, with regard to respecting, preserving and maintaining the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles, in accordance with article 8 (j) and related provisions of the Convention;

Takes note of the fact that the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights⁷ and the Convention on Biological Diversity are interrelated, in particular with respect to intellectual property rights and relevant provisions of the Convention, and invites the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization, within their respective mandates, to continue to explore this relationship, taking into account the ongoing work in other relevant forums and bearing in mind decision V/26 B of the Conference of the Parties;⁸

⁷Ibid., vol. 1869, No. 31874.

⁸See UNEP/CBD/COP/5/23 and Corr.1, annex III.

Invites all funding institutions and bilateral and multilateral donors, as well as regional funding institutions and non-governmental organizations, to cooperate with the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the implementation of the programme of work;

Requests the conferences of the parties to the multilateral environmental conventions, when setting the dates of their meetings, to take into consideration the schedule of meetings of the General Assembly and the Commission on Sustainable Development so as to ensure the adequate representation of developing countries at those meetings;

Calls upon parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to settle urgently any arrears and to pay their contributions in full and in a timely manner so as to ensure continuity in the cash flows required to finance the ongoing work of the Conference of the Parties, the subsidiary bodies and the Convention secretariat;

Looks forward to the contribution of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, bearing in mind the decisions taken by the Commission on Sustainable Development at its tenth session;

Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to report to the General Assembly on the ongoing work regarding the Convention;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”.

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