The secretariats of the biodiversity-related Conventions have agreed to establish a Global Partnership on Biodiversity at the eighth Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The fourth meeting of the Liaison Group of the Biodiversity-related Conventions was held on 4 October 2005 in Bonn, Germany. It was attended by the heads of the secretariats of the CBD and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), as well as representatives of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), CBD and CMS. The group agreed that the terms of reference for a Global Partnership on Biodiversity should refer to the CBD objectives and to the 2010 target to reduce significantly the current rate of biodiversity loss.
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Report of the meeting