The First Conference of the Parties (BIOCOP1)
The First Conference
of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held
in Nassau, the Bahamas, from 28 November to 9 December 1994.
We have photos from
the meeting!
The decisions of the meeting and
the in-session documentation are
located on the UNEP gopher in Nairobi. The link is rather slow
and sometimes unavailable. Perhaps they will mirror this material
to another site.
UNEP has provided all of the official documents (290K zip file)
and the decision documents (290K zip file)
in Word Perfect format
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin coverage of this meeting includes
ten daily issues and a summary issue:
Also available from this page is the ECO's coverage of this meeting.
The following list is the complete documentation available on-line
for the first COP. Some documents are not available at this time.
All documents are unofficial versions.
Item Symbol Title
- 2.2 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/1 Provisional
agenda
- 2.2 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/1/Add.1 Annotated
provisional agenda
- 2.3 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/1/Add.2 Provisional
organization of work (schedule for first
and second
weeks in graphic formats)
- 3 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/2 Draft rules of procedure for the Conference
of the Parties
- 4 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/3 Report of the Intergovernmental Committee
on the Convention on Biological Diversity on the work of its first
session
- 4 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/4 Report
of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Convention on Biological
Diversity on the work of its second session
- 4 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/INF.1 Report on regional workshops on biological
diversity and the Convention on Biological Diversity
- 4 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/INF.2 Report
by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
on the Interim Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
- 6.1 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/5 Policy, strategy, programme priorities
and eligibility criteria regarding access to and utilization of
financial resources
- 6.2 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/6 Institutional structure to operate the
financial mechanism under the Convention
- 6.3 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/7 List
of developed country Parties and other Parties which voluntarily
assume the obligations of developed country Parties
- 6.4 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/8 Clearing-house
mechanism for technical and scientific cooperation
- 6.5 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/9 Selection
of a competent international organization to carry out the functions
of the Secretariat of the Convention
- 6.6 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/10 Financial
rules governing the funding of the Secretariat of the Convention
- 7 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/11 Subsidiary
Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
- 8 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/12 Preparation
of the participation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
in the third session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
- 9 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/13 Medium-term
programme of work of the Conference of the Parties
- 9 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/INF.3 Progress report by FAO on work being
carried out by the Commission on Plant Genetic Resources to implement
resolution 3 of the Nairobi Final Act
- 10 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/14 Budget for the Secretariat of the Convention
- 11 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/15 Venue
and date of the Second Conference of the Parties
- 12 UNEP/CBD/COP/1/INF.4 Status of ratification of the Convention
on Biological Diversity
