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Statement by CBD Executive Secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

New dates announced for UN Biodiversity Convention meetings crucial to development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

The City of Montreal, with the support of ICLEI-Cities Biodiversity Center and the SCBD, through the #CitiesWithNature initiative, developed short briefing sheets about inspiring examples for communities to act to protect biodiversity in our cities

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema appointed head of UN Biodiversity Convention.

UN Biodiversity lead welcomes new head of Global Environment Facility

UN Biodiversity Convention on track to develop ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

World celebrates nature as a source of solutions to global challenges.

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of Earth Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day

Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) permanent subsidiary bodies originally scheduled for May 2020 and then rescheduled for August/September 2020 will now take place in August 2020.