Convention on Biological Diversity

A/RES/58/212View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 94c Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 2004.

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 Biotechnology Capacity Building Conferences Developed Countries Developing Countries Economies in Transition Environmental Agreements Environmentally Sound Technology Financial Resources Genetic Resources Genetically Modified Organisms Inter-Agency Cooperation Programme Implementation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Subsidiary Bodies Technology Transfer Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, submitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;³

³A/58/191.

Notes the outcome of the open-ended intersessional meeting on the multi-year programme of work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity up to 2010, held at Montreal, Canada, from 17 to 20 March 2003;

Notes also the outcomes of the eighth and ninth meetings of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held at Montreal, Canada, from 10 to 14 March and from 10 to 14 November 2003;

Reiterates the World Summit on Sustainable Development commitment to negotiate within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, bearing in mind the Bonn Guidelines on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising out of their Utilization, an international regime to promote and safeguard the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources;

Reiterates also the World Summit on Sustainable Development commitment to promote the wide implementation of and continued work on the Bonn Guidelines, as an input to assist the parties when developing and drafting legislative, administrative or policy measures on access and benefit-sharing as well as contract and other arrangements under mutually-agreed terms for access and benefit-sharing;

Invites the countries that have not yet done so to ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity;

Welcomes the entry into force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity,⁴ on 11 September 2003, and the convening of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and invites the parties to the Convention that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Protocol to consider doing so;

⁴See UNEP/CBD/ExCOP/1/3 and Corr.1, part two, annex.

Emphasizes that the effective implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will require full support from parties and relevant international organizations, and further urges parties to facilitate capacity-building in biosafety in developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition, including to develop and strengthen national capacities for making the required information available to and interacting with the Biosafety Clearing House;

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

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 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;

Underlines the need for increased financial and technical resources for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety by developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition, and in this regard welcomes the successful and substantial third replenishment of the Global Environment Facility;

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,⁵ the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,⁶ 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;

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

⁶Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480.

Stresses the importance of harmonizing the reporting requirements of the biodiversity-related conventions while respecting their independent legal status;

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 fifty-ninth session the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”.

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