CO-OP4CBD

The goal is to identify and map knowledge needs within the framework of the CBD and to prioritize these needs with CBD negotiators, while identifying and mapping knowledge holders, institutions, networks, and platforms relevant to the Convention’s agenda.

The purpose is to address the need to engage experts and researchers in the preparatory processes to support the work of the European Union’s negotiators, its Member States, and associated countries within the CBD processes. The challenge here is also to support the identification of current knowledge gaps for biodiversity-related decision-making and to enhance governments’ use of existing knowledge.

This mission meets the needs of the European Union, its Member States, and associated countries by translating and implementing the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montréal global biodiversity framework at the regional and national levels in the EU Member States.

This mission involves supporting the development of technical and scientific cooperation and expanding the capacity to make coherent contributions to the CBD, at the level of scientists, traditional ecological knowledge holders, and policymakers. It enables European researchers to more effectively participate in the work of the CBD, its subsidiary bodies, and working groups.

The objective here is to increase the efficiency, dissemination, and impact of CO-OP4CBD’s work by raising awareness and maximizing the impact of project outcomes, supporting community building and knowledge exchange throughout the project, and providing relevant materials and tools to enhance communication.

The main goal of this mission is to provide effective and transparent project coordination and management, as well as to ensure consistency with the CBD agenda and to identify links, where possible, to connect the project’s work with other agreements and intergovernmental processes.