Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

413, Saint Jacques Street, suite 800
Montreal QC H2Y 1N9
Canada

Contact: Linda Ghanime, Senior Programme Officer
Tel: +1-514-287-6673
Email: linda.ghanime@cbd.int
Website: www.cbd.int

The role of the Secretariat to support the goals of the Convention. Its principal functions are to prepare for, and service, meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COP) and other subsidiary bodies of the Convention, and to coordinate with other relevant international bodies.

The Secretariat supports and promotes a variety of thematic programmes, cross-cutting issues and mechanisms to implement the Convention. The latter include national reports, cooperation and partnerships, financial resources and access to relevant technologies, clearing house mechanism, the biosafety clearing house, and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). NBSAPs cover national strategies, plans or programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity that integrate, as far as possible and as appropriate, the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity into relevant sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programmes and policies.