What's New
1 September 2008
A grant application to cover a portion of the costs associated with the production of Global Biodiversity Outlook Three has been prepared jointly with the
World Conservation Monitoring Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-WCMC) and submitted to the European Commission. This is in line with
decision IX/10, in which the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity invited Parties, other Governments and donors, to make timely financial contributions for the preparation and production of the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook and its ancillary products. If the application is successful it is expected that the costs associated with the preparation of Global Biodiversity Outlook are largely covered, while support for its dissemination and implementation of the communication strategy is yet to be identified.
4 August 2008
Two interns have been recruited to assist with the production of the third edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook for the next three months. Specifically they are gathering relevant case studies for possible inclusion in GBO3 or its ancillary products. If you have or know of any case studies which might be useful for GBO3 we would like to encourage you to send them to
GBO3@cbd.int.
27 June 2008
A meeting of the
2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership was held on June 25 and 26, 2008 in Montreal, Canada. Participants discussed the progress on the indicators to be used in the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook, coordinated work plans and discussed issues related to communication.
30 May 2008
The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, during their ninth meeting in Bonn, Germany, welcomed the
scope, format, work plan,
communication strategy and financial plan of the third edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook and in decision
IX/10 requested the Executive Secretary to proceed with the preparation of the publication.
24 May 2008
The first meeting of the
GBO-3 Advisory Group was held on 24 May 2008, in Bonn, Germany. The meeting provided an overview, as well as the opportunity to discuss, the preparation of GBO 3. During this meeting the inputs expected from the Advisory Group were further specified.
