Since its inception in 2002, the CBD Alliance has become the focal point for civil society around the CBD. Following the broad mandate, the CBD Alliance has achieved many successes:
- It is widely recognized as the communications and focal point for CSOs, by the civil society community, the Secretariat and many Parties
- It has a robust list serve of over 420 people that connects many and serves as a primary information sharing and discussion forum for CBD issues
- Those indviduals belong to over a100 different organizations
- It has produced over 120 issues of ECO since 2002
- It has funded 93 Indigenous and Southern participants to attend meetings through civil society selection process
- It has organized preparatory strategy sessions at most major negotiations since 2004
- It has organized capacity building sessions for civil society representations held prior to negotiations
- It has produced substantive briefings on key issues for both COP 9 and COP 10, COP 11 and other CBD intersessional meetings
- It has permitted joined letters between several member organizations on several issues
- It has published several publications
- It is a platform to enhance cooperation with other civil society networks