A/RES/64/203 Taking note of the reports of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 6 5F Noting the continuing efforts of the Life Web initiative promoted by the Government of Germany and other countries, Noting also the initiative launched at the meeting of the environment ministers of the Group of Eight in Potsdam, Germany, in March 2007, to develop a study on the economic cost of the global loss of biodiversity, Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on 1. Biological Diversity on the work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention; 7 6F 2. Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environment Facility; Urges the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity1 to facilitate 3. 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, 8 as a preliminary basis for concrete activities by parties and international organizations; 7F 4. Takes note of decision IX/12 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, on access and benefit-sharing, and the annexes thereto, 9 by which the Conference established a road map for the negotiations set out in that decision and, inter alia: 8F (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 10 and VIII/4 A; 11 9F 10F (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 implement the provisions of articles 15 and 8 (j) of the Convention and its three objectives, without in any way prejudging or precluding any outcome regarding the nature of such instrument or instruments; Notes with appreciation, in this regard, the progress made thus far in the 5. Working Group, invites the Working Group to finalize the international regime, as instructed by the Conference of the Parties, emphasizes the importance of the _______________ 6 Available from http://millenniumassessment.org. A/64/202, chap. III. 8 UNEP/CBD/AHTEG-TTSTC/1/5, annex III. 9 UNEP/CBD/COP/9/29, annex I. 10 See UNEP/CBD/COP/7/21, annex. 11 See UNEP/CBD/COP/8/31, annex. 7 3