COP-11 Biodiversity Conference to be Held Next Year in Hyderabad, India

This is the 11th Conference of Parties (COP-11) on biological diversity and will be the first meeting to assess the implementation of the Nagoya biodiversity compact.

The International Biodiversity Conference is to be held from October 1 to 9, 2012, at India's Hyderabad International Convention Centre.

This is the 11th Conference of Parties (COP-11) on biological diversity. It is expected that more than 30 countries and 12,000 participants will take part in this convention.

India has not hosted a meeting of a Conference of the Parties to a multilateral environmental agreement since 2002. This will be the first meeting to assess the implementation of the Nagoya biodiversity compact.

It is expected that all countries who are Parties to the Convention will submit their national biodiversity strategies and action plans, by the ti