The three-day preparatory meeting for the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will be held in Amman, Jordan from 1 to 3 October 2024, bringing together representatives of international and regional organizations from Arab countries and the Arab region. I met. .
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity hosted the conference in collaboration with the Jordanian Ministry of Environment and Arab institutions. For agricultural development.
The purpose of the meeting was to provide Arab country representatives with a forum for open and constructive discussion on the various topics of the upcoming COP16, to gain a deeper understanding of the collective position and to improve negotiations on the various issues at hand. It was about exploring potential avenues. . The conference also included a workshop focused on developing participants' capacity on digital sequence information (DSI).