At the 12th meeting of the COP to the CBD (October 2014), the fourth edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4) was launched, serving as a mid-term review of progress towards the targets set under the Strategic Plan. The COP, in Decision XII/1, also encouraged ‘Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations, as appropriate, to take steps to disseminate widely the fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook and its findings, including by … producing other appropriate communication products for different stakeholders and making them publicly available’.
