A/RES/62/194 Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 3 and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 4 (the “Rio Conventions”), while respecting their individual mandates, concerned by the negative impacts that loss of biodiversity, desertification, land degradation and climate change have on each other, and recognizing the potential benefits of complementarities in addressing these problems in a mutually supportive manner with a view to achieving the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2F 3F Acknowledging the contribution that the ongoing work of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, of the World Intellectual Property Organization, can make in enhancing the effective implementation of the provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Noting the contribution that South-South cooperation can make in the area of biological diversity, Taking note of the reports of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 5 4F 1. Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the work of the Convention; 6 5F 2. Encourages developed countries parties to the Convention1 to contribute to the relevant trust funds of the Convention, in particular so as to enhance the full participation of the developing countries parties in all of its activities; 0H Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly 3. 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 parties to the Convention to facilitate the transfer of technology 4. for the effective implementation of the Convention in accordance with its provisions; Notes the establishment of the Heads of Agencies Task Force on the 2010 5. Biodiversity Target, as well as the convening of the first meeting of the Chairpersons of the scientific advisory bodies of the biodiversity-related conventions and the Rio Conventions aimed at enhancing scientific and technical collaboration for achieving the 2010 biodiversity target; Recognizes the importance of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the 6. Parties to the Convention serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,2 to be held in Bonn, Germany, from 12 to 16 May 2008, and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, to be held in Bonn from 19 to 30 May 2008; 1H Notes the progress made in the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on 7. Access and Benefit-sharing towards elaborating and negotiating the international _______________ 3 Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480. Ibid., vol. 1771, No. 30822. 5 Available from http://millenniumassessment.org. 6 A/62/276, annex III. 4 2