At the kind invitation of the Government of Brazil, the
eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8) was held in Curitiba, Brazil from 20 to 31 March 2006. The meeting was preceeded by the
third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Biosafety Protocol (COP-MOP 3), from 13 to 17 March 2006.
