A/RES/64/203 alia, adopted a set of scientific criteria for identifying ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in need of protection, contained in annex I to the decision, and scientific guidance for designing representative networks of marine protected areas, contained in annex II; 14. Stresses the importance of private-sector engagement for the implementation of the three objectives of the Convention and in achieving biodiversity targets, and invites businesses to align their policies and practices more explicitly with the objectives of the Convention, including through partnerships; 15. Notes the development of the gender plan of action under the Convention, and invites parties to support the implementation of the plan by the Convention secretariat; 16. Takes note of decision IX/16 of the Conference of the Parties on biodiversity and climate change, and the annexes thereto,9 by which the Conference, inter alia, established an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change with a mandate to develop scientific and technical advice on biodiversity insofar as it relates to climate change; 4H 17. Also takes note of the report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, 13 established by the Conference of the Parties in its decision IX/16 on biodiversity and climate change; 12F 18. Further takes note of the ongoing work of the Joint Liaison Group of the secretariats and offices of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and further encourages continuing cooperation in order to promote complementarities among the secretariats while respecting their independent legal status; 19. Encourages developed countries parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to contribute to the relevant trust funds of the Convention so as to enhance the full participation of the developing countries parties in all of its activities; 20. Invites the countries that have not yet done so to ratify or accede to the Convention; 21. Invites parties to the Convention that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety2 to consider doing so, reiterates the commitment of States parties to the Protocol to support its implementation, and stresses that this will require the full support of parties and of relevant international organizations, in particular with regard to the provision of assistance to developing countries in capacity-building for biosafety; 22. Invites countries to consider ratifying or acceding to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; 14 13F 23. Decides, in follow-up to its resolution 63/219, to convene the one-day high-level meeting as close as possible to the opening of the general debate of the _______________ 13 UNEP/CBD/AHTEG-TTSTC/1/5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the Conference of FAO, Thirty-first Session, Rome, 2–13 November 2001 (C2001/REP), appendix D. 14 5