International conventions and treaties - Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - COP and SUBSTTA documents - UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/10: Monitoring and indicators

In its decision VI/7-B, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to report on the development and use of indicators in all the thematic areas and cross cutting issues (paragraph 1), and urged Parties that had not yet done so to respond to the questionnaire on the subject of indicators that had been sent by the Executive Secretary in May 2001 (paragraph 2). In paragraph 3 of the same decision, the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to convene a meeting of an expert group to further develop the three annexes to the note of the Executive Secretary on ongoing work on indicators (UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/7/12) and provided guidance on how this should be done (paragraph 4).