Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was adopted at the United Nation Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio ‘Earth Summit’) on 29 December 1993.

The Convention serves to provide a framework for nations to act against the diminishing of global biological diversity. There are currently over 190 Parties to the Convention, including China.

The Convention was extended to Hong Kong on 9 May 2011.

The Convention on Biological Diversity website can be found at the following link:

http://www.cbd.int/

The text of the Convention can be found here:

http://www.cbd.int/convention/text/