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This guidance sets out the suggested procedures for compiling retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) and for submitting them for approval by the World Heritage Committee.

This report is a summary of the discussions that took place during the workshop, presenting the main outcomes both generally on bioenergy and then specifically in relation to IUCN. Full details of the discussions are available in the annexes.

Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI. Describes GOBI's online submission tool to accept information about ecologically or biologically significant areas in the open oceans and deep seas.

Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI, focusing on the EBSAs in the Pacific Ocean region.

Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI.

Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI.

This document provides an overview and analysis of current international discussions on main issues around indigenous peoples and REDD. A compilation with links to various related resources allows the reader easy access to additional reading and relevant key documents.

This information paper outlines the priorities for business engagement in the CBD’s agenda post-2010.

This information paper outlines the priorities for business engagement in the CBD’s agenda post-2010.

This paper describes the Satoyama Initiative, which has been promoted by the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan and United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies for discussion at CBD COP10.

It is essential that Parties and other stakeholders have the means to achieve the Strategic Plan, yet there is a persistent and critical shortage of financial resources to implement the Convention.