Notification: SCBD/STTM/JM/DCO/76500 (2011-121)

2011-06-16
Notification to: CBD national focal points, SBSTTA focal points and relevant organisations

Agricultural biodiversity: biofuels and biodiversity (en)
Experiences and results from assessments of the impacts of biofuel production and use on biodiversity and impacts on biodiversity that affect related socioeconomic conditions.
La Diversidad Biológica Agrícola: los biocombustibles y la diversidad biológica (es)
Experiencias y resultados de las evaluaciones de los impactos de la producción y el uso de biocombustibles en la diversidad biológica y los impactos en la diversidad biológica que afectan las condiciones socioeconómicas pertinentes.
Biodiversité agricole : biocarburants et biodiversité (fr)
Expérience et résultats d’évaluations des conséquences de la production et de l’utilisation de biocarburants sur la diversité biologique et des impacts sur la diversité biologique qui pourraient avoir des répercussions sur les conditions socioéconomiques connexes.

I invite Parties, other Governments and relevant organisations to submit any relevant information, in any appropriate form, to the Secretariat at [email protected] or by mail, with the subject title "Notification – Biofuels and Biodiversity"). Submissions will be accepted at any time but not later than 30 September 2011 to be useful as information for the sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-16).

Notification: SCBD/STTM/RH/ac/68835 (2009-117)

2009-09-17
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points in Asia

Nominations for the Regional Workshop for Asia on Ways and Means to Promote the Sustainable Production and Use of Biofuels (en)
25 to 27 November 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand

In paragraph 12 of decision IX/2 the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested the Executive Secretary to convene regional workshops on the sustainable production and use of biofuels, subject to the availability of financial resources, aiming at considering ways and means to promote the positive and minimize the negative impacts of the production and use of biofuels on biodiversity, taking into account relevant guidance from the Convention. Action required by 2009-10-17

SCBD/STTM/RH/ac/68834 (2009-116)

2009-09-17
Notification to: CBD National Focal Points in Africa

Nominations for the Regional Workshop for Africa on Ways and Means to Promote the Sustainable Production and Use of Biofuels (en)
17 to 19 November 2009, in Accra, Ghana

In paragraph 12 of decision IX/2 the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested the Executive Secretary to convene regional workshops on the sustainable production and use of biofuels, subject to the availability of financial resources, aiming at considering ways and means to promote the positive and minimize the negative impacts of the production and use of biofuels on biodiversity, taking into account relevant guidance from the Convention. Action required by 2009-10-10

Notification: SCBD/STTM/JM/RH/64589 (2008-100)

2008-08-06
Notification to: Parties and other Governments, indigenous and local communities, and relevant stakeholders and organizations

Request for submissions of information on experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels (en)

I invite you to submit information on experiences on the development and application of tools relevant to the sustainable production and use of biofuels as well as relevant information from research on, and monitoring of, the positive and negative impacts of the production and use of biofuels on biodiversity and related socio-economic aspects, including those related to indigenous and local communities to the Secretariat ([email protected] or fax +1-514-288-6588) at your earliest convenience, but no later than 31 March 2009.
Action required by 2009-03-31