[Pollinator] Submission of information regarding the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators

[David Inouye]

Date: 27 March 2017

From: Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity

To: CBD National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal Points, other Governments 
and relevant organizations

Subject: Submission of information regarding the conservation and 
sustainable use of pollinators

Thematic area: Agricultural Biodiversity

Ref.: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/MK/86418

  NOTIFICATION

No. 2017-030

Dear Madam/Sir,

  The purpose of this notification is to invite Parties, other 
Governments and relevant organizations to provide information on 
relevant national initiatives and activities to promote the conservation 
and sustainable use of pollinators. This invitation is made in response 
to the request of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on 
Biological Diversity in its decision XIII/15.

  In the same decision, the Conference of the Parties welcomed the 
assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production prepared by 
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and 
Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and requested the Executive Secretary to 
review, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the 
United Nations (FAO) and in collaboration with other partners, the 
implementation of the International Initiative on the Conservation and 
Sustainable Use of Pollinators and to prepare a draft updated and 
streamlined plan of action, for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on 
Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA).

The information provided by invited Parties, other Governments and 
relevant organizations will be compiled and used as an input for the 
preparation of the documents for consideration by SBSTTA, at its 
twenty-first meeting. In order to facilitate the timely preparation of 
documentation, contributions should be submitted as soon as possible and 
no later than *15 May 2017*.

  I thank you for your cooperation and for your continued support for 
the work of the Convention.

  The text of this notification is also available on the CBD website at: 
http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2017/ntf-2017-030-pollinators-en.pdf

  Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Cristiana Paşca Palmer

Executive Secretary

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

United Nations Environment Programme

413 Saint-Jacques Street, Suite 800

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

H2Y 1N9

Tel: +1 514 288 2220

Fax: +1 514 288 6588

E-mail: secretariat at cbd.int

Web: http://www.cbd.int


-- 
Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
inouye at umd.edu

Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224

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