CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES - SYNERGIES AND PARTNERSHIPS

Encourages Parties, non-Party Range States and other stakeholders, and requests the Secretariat as well as the Aquatic and Avian Working Groups of the Scientific Council to engage in the World Coastal Forum as a mechanism to facilitate the synergistic delivery of commitments in relation to coastal ecosystem conservation and restoration under CMS, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, CBD and its Kunm. [...] Welcomes the adoption of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) and encourages Parties, the Secretariat, NGOs and other stakeholders to engage in its processes and build synergies to enhance conservation of migratory marine species; 16. [...] Further requests the Secretariat together with interested Parties and stakeholders and invites the Secretariats of CBD and of other relevant MEAs to consider and advise on ways and means of more coherently addressing the conservation and sustainable use of animal species in CBD processes, including in relation to the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and under t. [...] Calls on the Secretariat to enhance cooperation through the BLG and the biodiversity indicators partnership to support further development of the monitoring framework of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and the BBNJ Agreement, and to strengthen cooperation and consultation with regional conservation and fisheries management bodies; 20. [...] Also requests the Secretariat to be aware of the progress with respect to the entry into force of the BBNJ Agreement, and to subsequently engage with that Agreement in order to advance the conservation of migratory species; 22.