The resumed second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15) elected new vice-presidents of the Bureau and the CBD subsidiary bodies, concluding its work. The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) “placed a strong emphasis on developing synergistic strategies for concurrently addressing two primary drivers of biodiversity loss, namely, climate change and invasive alien species (IAS).”
The 25th meeting of the SBSTTA and the resumed second part of CBD COP 15 took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15-20 October 2023. COP 15 convened concurrently with the tenth meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CP-MOP-10) and the fourth MOP to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising from their Utilization (NP-MOP-4)
Meeting ten months after the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the SBSTTA offered expert advice on the scientific, technical, and technological aspects of GBF implementation. According to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) summary report of the meeting, the various aspects of implementation addressed by delegates included monitoring frameworks, mechanisms for planning and review, scientific and technical needs, and plant conservation.
Reflecting on the implications of the recent scientific…
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