SACEP at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s science body (SBSTTA - 23) which meets to lay groundwork for next year’s critical UN Biodiversity Conference


The twenty third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-23), being held from 25-29 November at Montreal, Canada. SBSTTA is one of the CBD’s two permanent subsidiary bodies, and recommendations made by the body are suggestions for decisions to be adopted at the biennial meetings of the Conference of the Parties. In this SBSTTA, governments, IGOs, and other partners to propose themes for goals and targets of post-2020 global biodiversity framework, to review new scientific and technical information on biodiversity and climate change, and discussions also focusing on links between nature and culture in the post-2020 biodiversity framework, sustainable wildlife management, technical and scientific cooperation, and ecologically or biologically significant marine areas.