Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Its Contribution to Sustainable Development

A/RES/67/212View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20f Convention on Biological Diversity, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 2013–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/140

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2025	A/RES/80/140	Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development	5,932	72%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/208	Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development	5,938	82%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/155	Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development	5,919	52%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/167	Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development	6,811	46%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/207	Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development	6,043	91%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Biological Diversity Genetic Resources Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Sustainable Development Traditional Knowledge

What’s in this document?

25 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention;¹⁸

¹⁸A/67/295, sect. III.

Notes with appreciation the recent appointment of the new Executive Secretary, and expresses its support for his tenure;

Reaffirms the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”,Error: Reference source not found and, inter alia, the commitments concerning biodiversity;

Welcomes the outcomes of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention;Error: Reference source not found

Recognizes that parties to the Convention on Biological DiversityError: Reference source not found have reiterated that resources, financial, human and technical, need to be mobilized from all sources and that this should be balanced with the effective implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020,Error: Reference source not found stresses the need for further consideration of the evaluation of all resources mobilized in terms of the biodiversity outcomes achieved, and in this regard welcomes the decision of the parties to the Convention¹⁹ on an overall substantial increase in total biodiversity-related funding for the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 from a variety of sources, including national and international resource mobilization, international cooperation and the exploration of new and innovative financial mechanisms;

¹⁹Decision XI/4, entitled “Review of implementation of the strategy for resource mobilization, including the establishment of targets”, adopted at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (see United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/COP/11/35, annex I).

Welcomes the initiatives undertaken by parties to the Convention and relevant stakeholders that aim to effectively implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, expresses appreciation for the contribution made by the Government of India at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention through the Hyderabad Pledge, which aims to strengthen institutional mechanisms and enhance technical and human capabilities and includes earmarked funds to promote similar capacity-building in developing countries, and encourages parties in a position to do so to undertake similar initiatives;

Encourages Governments and all stakeholders, in line with the provisions of the Convention, to take measures that aim to share, in a fair and equitable way, the results of the research and development and the benefits arising from the commercial and other utilization of genetic resources on mutually agreed terms;

Recognizes the role indigenous and local communities can have in the stewardship and sustainable management of natural renewable resources, and the possible role of market- and non-market-based approaches in the management of those resources;

Calls upon parties and all stakeholders to incorporate, within their national strategies and action plans, measures to respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices, and to encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices;

Stresses the importance of private sector engagement for the implementation of the three objectives of the Convention and in achieving biodiversity targets, and invites businesses to align their policies and practices more explicitly with the objectives of the Convention, including through partnerships;

Recognizes that the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity can significantly contribute to disaster risk reduction and to reducing the adverse impacts of climate change, including by adding resilience to fragile ecosystems and making them less vulnerable;

Encourages parties, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to take concrete measures towards achieving the objectives of the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization,Error: Reference source not found requests parties, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to coherently and efficiently implement their obligations and commitments under the Convention, and in this regard emphasizes the need to comprehensively address at all levels the difficulties that impede the full implementation of the Convention;

Urges the parties to the Convention to facilitate the transfer of technology for the effective implementation of the Convention in accordance with its provisions, and in this regard takes note of the strategy for the practical implementation of the programme of work on technology transfer and scientific and technological cooperation developed by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Technology Transfer and Scientific and Technological Cooperation, as well as of decision XI/2, entitled “Review of progress in implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans and related capacity-building support to parties”;Error: Reference source not found

Calls upon Governments and all stakeholders to take appropriate measures to mainstream consideration of the socioeconomic impacts and benefits of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and its components, as well as of ecosystems that provide essential services, into relevant programmes and policies at all levels, in accordance with national legislation, circumstances and priorities;

Reaffirms the importance of continuing to pursue more efficient and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention, and calls upon parties and stakeholders to strengthen international cooperation measures for the fulfilment of obligations contained in the Convention, including through addressing implementation gaps, particularly with regard to article 15 of the Convention;

Notes the ongoing work of the Joint Liaison Group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,²⁰ and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change²¹ (the Rio conventions) and of the Liaison Group of Biodiversity-related Conventions, acknowledges the importance of improving coherence in the implementation of those conventions, recognizes the importance of enhancing synergies among the biodiversity-related conventions, without prejudice to their specific objectives, and encourages the conferences of the parties to the biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements to consider strengthening efforts in this regard, taking into account relevant experiences and bearing in mind the respective independent legal status and mandates of those instruments;

²⁰United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.

²¹Ibid., vol. 1771, No. 30822.

Reaffirms the importance of achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its tenth meeting,Error: Reference source not found and the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020;

Notes the efforts to mainstream the Aichi Biodiversity Targets in the contribution of the United Nations system to support the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, and invites the United Nations system to continue facilitating cooperation among its members in support of the implementation of the Strategic Plan;

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

Invites parties to the Convention to ratify or accede to the Nagoya Protocol, so as to ensure its early entry into force and its implementation, and furthermore requests the Executive Secretary, in collaboration with relevant organizations, to continue supporting capacity-building and development activities to support the ratification, early entry into force and implementation of the Nagoya Protocol, and in this regard notes the Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund within the Global Environment Facility, aimed at supporting concrete capacity development projects for the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol;

Welcomes the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and its potential benefit to Governments, invites an early commencement of its work, in order to provide the best available policy-relevant information on biodiversity to assist decision makers, and encourages Member States that have not yet done so to become members of the Platform;

Decides to devote one of the special events of the Second Committee during the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, as part of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity and to further efforts to improve coherence, to a joint briefing by the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the relevant United Nations bodies on the implementation of the objectives of the Convention, including actions undertaken to promote access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization and associated traditional knowledge, and to include an executive summary of the event in the note by the Secretary-General on the implementation of United Nations environmental conventions²² to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, before the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention;

²²Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the reports submitted by the secretariats of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Encourages parties and all stakeholders, institutions and organizations concerned to consider the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets in the elaboration of the post-2015 United Nations development agenda, taking into account the three dimensions of sustainable development;

Invites the secretariat of the Convention to report, through the Secretary-General, to the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session on the advancement of the implementation of the Convention and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, including on difficulties encountered in the process of their implementation;

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

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