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programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and
technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global
Environment Facility;
Takes note of the outcomes of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the
4.
Parties to the Convention 7 and its fourth meeting serving as the Meeting of the
Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; 8
6F
7F
5.
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, 9 as a
preliminary basis for concrete activities by parties and international organizations;
8F
6.
Notes the ongoing work of the Heads of Agencies Task Force on the 2010
Biodiversity Target, of the chairpersons of the scientific advisory bodies of the
biodiversity-related conventions and of the Joint Liaison Group of the secretariats
and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change,4 the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, Particularly in Africa,3 and the Convention on Biological Diversity,
aimed at enhancing scientific and technical collaboration for achieving the 2010
biodiversity target;
1H
2H
Notes also the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the
7.
Convention on Biological Diversity at its ninth meeting of a strategy for resource
mobilization 10 in support of the achievement of the three objectives of the
Convention, and, in accordance with Conference of the Parties decision IX/11 and
the annexes thereto, 11 invites parties to submit, to the secretariat of the Convention,
views on concrete activities and initiatives, including measurable targets and/or
indicators to achieve the strategic goals contained in the strategy, and on indicators
to monitor its implementation;
9F
10F
Takes note of decision IX/12 of the Conference of the Parties to the
8.
Convention, on access and benefit-sharing, and the annexes thereto,11 by which the
Conference established a road map for the negotiations contained in that decision
and, inter alia:
3H
(a) Reiterated its instruction to the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on
Access and Benefit-sharing to complete the elaboration and negotiation of the
international access and benefit-sharing regime at the earliest possible time before
the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, in accordance
with decisions VII/19 D and VIII/4 A; and
(b) Further instructed the Working Group to finalize the international regime
and to submit for consideration and adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention at its tenth meeting an instrument or instruments to effectively
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7
UNEP/CBD/COP/9/29.
UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/4/18.
9
UNEP/CBD/AHTEG-TTSTC/1/5, annex III.
10
UNEP/CBD/COP/9/29, annex I, decision IX/11 B, annex.
11
See UNEP/CBD/COP/9/29, annex I.
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