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IPBES related Decisions & Resolutions

What decisions, resolutions and recommendations related to IPBES have been adopted so far?

Ramsar Resolution XI.6 adopted by the 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands

Ramsar CoP11. Bucharest, Romania, July 2012


Resolution adopted at the second session of a plenary meeting to determine modalities and institutional arrangements for IPBES

Second Session of a plenary meeting on IPBES. Panama City, Panama, April 2012


Resolution 10.8 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its Tenth Meeting on Cooperation between the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and CMS

CMS CoP 10. Bergen, Norway, November 2011



Decisions adopted by the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild Fauna and Flora at its Sixty-first meeting of the Standing Committee

CITES SC 61. Geneva, Switzerland, August 2011



Resolution 14/2011 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at its thirty-seventh session

FAO 37. Rome, Italy, July 2011



Decisions adopted by the Plants Committee to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of wild Fauna and Flora) at its nineteenth meeting

CITES PC 19. Geneva, Switzerland, April 2011



Decisions adopted by the United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its twenty-sixth session

UNEP-GMEF 26. Nairobi, Kenya, February 2011

Page 10, agenda item 4.



Resolution 65/162 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in its 65th session

UNGA 65. New York City, USA, December 2010

Page 5, operating clauses 17-18.



185 EX/Decisions adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Executive Board at its 185th Session

UNESCO 185 EX. Paris, France, October 2010

Page 54, agenda item 43.



Decision X/11 adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its tenth meeting

CBD CoP 10. Nagoya, Japan, October 2010



Report of the third ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Annex: Busan outcome

3rd ad hoc intergovernmental & multi-stakeholder meeting on an IPBES. Busan, Republic of Korea, June 2010



Decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (of wild Fauna and Flora) at its fifteenth meeting

CITES CoP 15. Doha, Qatar, March 2010

Page 3-4, Decisions 15.12 – 15. 14



Decision SS.XI/3 adopted by the United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its eleventh special session

UNEP-GMEF 11. Bali, Indonesia, February 2010



Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar): Report of the mid-term workshops of the Scientific & Technical Review Panel

Ramsar STRP. Gland, Switzerland, February 2010

Page 27, agenda item 17.4, paragraph 139.



Report of the second ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services

2nd ad hoc intergovernmental & multi-stakeholder meeting on an IPBES. Nairobi, Kenya, October 2009



Decision 25/10 adopted by the United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its twenty-fourth session

UNEP-GMEF 24, Nairobi, Kenya, February 2009



Report of the ad hoc intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on an intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services

1st ad hoc intergovernmental & multi-stakeholder meeting on an IPBES. Putrajaya, Malaysia, November 2008



Decision XI/15 adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its ninth meeting

CBD CoP 9. Bonn, Germany, May 2008

Page 3, operating paragraph 8.

 

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