Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
and its contribution to sustainable development
A/RES/73/234
5.
Takes note with appreciation of the commitment made by the parties at the
high-level segment of the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention, inter alia, to:
(a) Accelerating efforts to implement the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity
2011–2020 11 and achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, including by implementing
the decisions of the Conference of the Parties and the Cartagena and Nagoya
Protocols, as appropriate, and by providing and mobilizing international and national
resources, thereby contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development;
(b) Supporting the development and implementation of a post-2020 global
biodiversity framework, building on the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the lessons
learned from the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020
and aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a level of
ambition and practicality that will facilitate the transformational changes needed to
achieve the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity, as noted in the conclusions of the Subsidiary
Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice;
(c) Promoting, prior to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties,
voluntary biodiversity contributions by parties and other actors towards achieving the
2050 Vision for Biodiversity;
(d) Engaging indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth, civil
society, local governments and authorities, academia, the business and financial
sectors and other relevant stakeholders to support action towards the 2050 Vision for
Biodiversity and to provide momentum for the implementation of the pos t-2020
global biodiversity framework;
6.
Decides to convene a summit on biodiversity at the level of Heads of State
and Government, within existing resources, before the fifteenth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Convention, in 2020, in order to highlight the urgency
of action at the highest levels in support of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework
that contributes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and places the
global community on a path towards realizing the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity;
7.
Looks forward to the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
the Convention, as well as the meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as
the Meetings of the Parties to the Protocols to the Convention, which will be held in
China in the fourth quarter of 2020, as well as the sixteenth meeting of the Conference
of the Parties and the meetings of the Conference of the Parties serving as the
Meetings of the Parties to the Protocols to the Convention, which will be held in
Turkey in the fourth quarter of 2022;
8.
Welcomes the entry into force of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur
Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety24 on 5 March 2018;
9.
Also welcomes the entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to
Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their
Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity 22 on 12 October 2014;
10. Takes note with appreciation of the Cancun Declaration on Mainstreaming
the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Well -being, adopted at the
high-level segment of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the
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