RT Report
T1 From Policy to Implementation: Decisions from the Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 
K1 biological diversity
K1 sustainable development
K1 marine ecosystem
K1 coastal area
K1 ecosystem
K1 marine resources conservation
K1 biosafety
K1 inland water
K1 freshwater ecosystem
K1 forest ecosystem
K1 agriculture
K1 clearing house
SN 92-807 1923-8
YR 2000
FD 2000
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29957
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29957
NO The fifth meeting was a time to review progress in the implementation of the Convention, to consolidate the gains achieved and to chart the course for the future. Central to this process was the review of the operations of the Convention conducted with a view to providing the sound institutional footing necessary to promote the implementation of the Convention in the coming years. Building on the work of the Inter-Sessional Meeting on the Operations of the Convention, which had been held in June 1999. the Parties adopted decision V/20, which lays out detailed arrangements for the functioning of the various Convention bodies and provides for the development of a Strategic Plan for the Convention as whole, to he adopted at the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 19, 2026