Question follow-through · 22880
Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19633 on the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, what recent assessment he has made of the extent to w
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19633 on the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, what recent assessment he has made of the extent to w
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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17 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is completely committed to ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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