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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