Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development A/RES/71/230 the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development , as decided by the General Assembly in its resolutions 70/226 of 22 December 2015 and 70/303 of 9 September 2016, at United Nations Headquarters from 5 to 9 June 2017, Noting further the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convent ion on Biological Diversity, at its tenth meeting, 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, 17 and acknowledging the role of access to genetic resources and equitable benefit-sharing arising from their utilization in contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, poverty eradication and environmental sustainability and, thereby, to the achievement of sustainable development, Noting that 91 States and 1 regional economic integration organization have signed and that 88 States and 1 regional economic integration organization that are parties to the Convention have deposited their instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the Nagoya Protocol, and noting also in this regard that the Protocol entered into force on 12 October 2014, Noting also the Nagoya Protocol, the objective of which is the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into account all rights over those resources and to technologies, and by appropriate funding, thereby contributing to th e conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components, Noting further that 195 States and 1 regional economic integration organization are parties to the Convention and that 169 States and 1 regional economic integration organization are parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 18 Noting that 50 States and 1 regional economic integration organization have signed and that 36 States and 1 regional economic integration organization t hat are parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety have deposited their instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the Nagoya -Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 19 Recalling the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its ninth meeting of the strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the three objectives of the Convention, 20 as well as decision X/3, adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting, 21 on the review of its implementation, and the targets for resource mobilization, under Aichi Target 20 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, adopted by the Conference of the Parties in its decision XII/3, 22 _______________ 17 United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27, annex, decision X/1. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2226, No. 30619. 19 United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/5/17, annex, decision BS-V/11. 20 See United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/COP/9/29, annex I, decision IX/11. 21 See United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27, annex. 22 See United Nations Environment Programme, document UNEP/CBD/COP/12/29, sect. I. 18 4/8