Convention on Biological Diversity

A/RES/59/236View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 85f Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 2005.

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 Biotechnology Capacity Building Conferences Developed Countries Developing Countries Environmental Agreements Financial Resources Inter-Agency Cooperation Liaison Offices Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Subsidiary Bodies Technology Transfer Trust Funds

What’s in this document?

13 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 fifty-ninth session;⁴

⁴See A/59/197, sect. III.

Takes note also of the outcome of the seventh meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological DiversityError: Reference source not found and the outcome of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,Error: Reference source not found and urges all parties to these respective agreements to implement their decisions;

Notes the recent progress made with respect to the achievement of the three objectives set out in the Convention on Biological Diversity;

Notes also the progress made at the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in establishing an operational framework for the implementation of the Protocol, and reiterates that the effective implementation of the Protocol 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;

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

Invites the parties to the Convention that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity⁵ to consider doing so;

⁵See UNEP/CBD/ExCOP/1/3 and Corr.1, part two, annex.

Invites countries to consider ratifying or acceding to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture;Error: Reference source not found

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,⁶ the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,⁷ 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;

⁶United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

⁷Ibid., 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 sixtieth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”.

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