Report of the Ad hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Biological Diversity on the Work of Its Second Session

The Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme by its decisions 14/26 and 15/34 recognized and re-emphasized the need for concerted international action to protect biological diversity on Earth by, inter alia, the implementation of existing legal instruments and agreements in a co-ordinated and effective way and the adoption of a further appropriate international legal instrument, possibly in the form of a framework convention.