Attended in person the CBD COP15 and hosted a booth with more than 100 people stopping by, and hosting a CBD Side Event with more than 150 people attending in person and virtually, including with live translation

Attended in person the CBD COP16 and hosted a booth with more than 100 people stopping by, and with members of the CCG presenting on conservation genetics and genetic indicators at approximately 10 events

Attended and provided input to virtual meetings of policy makers of CBD including the SBSTTA

Composed 11 statements or policy information documents during the CBD GBF negotiations and distributed these to 1000+ contact points and/or to key CBD leaders

Submitted 5 formal comments to the CBD through its requests for input, and, via contacts within national delegations, helped several nations to add points about conservation genetics to their formal comment submissions

Provided specific talking points input to IUCN and NGO statements submitted to the CBD

Gave virtual presentations to the CBD AHTEG, CBD Secretariat, European Commission, and Co-Chairs of the CBD

Recruited the support of more than 40 CBD Parties and NGOs in support of our application to host a CBD COP15 and COP16 side event applications

Contributed to 3 information documents submitted by GEO BON and 3 statements or submissions by IUCN, during the CBD GBF negotiations

Participated in or hosted numerous Webinars

Submitted a large number of comments in a single submission to the open comment period for the National Nature Assessment of the USA

Signed on, along with 100s of NGOs, to an open letter to the Biden Administration on the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act

Submitted a statement to the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) developed from the work on environmental accounting undertaken by the European Environment Agency (EEA)

Submitted comments for the EuropaBON User and Policy Needs Assessment 

Submitted comments on the EuropaBON European Environment Agency's Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE)

Supporting the application for the EU COST Action GENOA

Attending and supporting symposia at the World Biodiversity Forum 2024

Submitted comments on the IUCN 20 year vision

Submitted comments on the IUCN Nature Positive initiative

Submitted comments on a draft of the IPBES Nexus report

Submitted comments on IPBES Objective 3a of work program