Regionally, BioNET members support diagnostic standard development and implementation. Globally, BioNET has contributed to IPPC work on developing synergies between the IPPC and CBD on IAS management, participating and contributing papers to an international conference and shaping CBD decisions to promote closer collaboration on taxonomy.

BioNET advises the Executive Secretary of the CBD as a member of the Coordination Mechanism of the Global Taxonomy Initiative and has a Memorandum of Cooperation with the CBD Secretariat. It is an important implementer of the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) and works in close collaboration with the Secretariat of the CBD and the nearly 190 Parties to the CBD on the GTI, technology transfer, invasive alien species, biosafety and technical cooperation. The CBD through the Conference of Parties has acknowledged the importance of BioNET's work, identifying it as an actor in several of its key decisions.
BioNET's assistance to the CBD in implementing the GTI programme of work has included activities in each area of the programme where the potential of BioNET is recognised: needs assessments, awareness raising, regional cooperation, resource mobilization and the coordination and delivery of capacity building. Parties to the CBD invited BioNET to lead the establishment of a Special Fund for the Global Taxonomy Initiative.

The agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures places significant technical capacity development demands on countries wanting to trade with the major world markets. Taxonomy is an important component of capacity development needs. BioNET's Global Programme is developing BioNET's services to this market, building in particular on the work of BioNET-ASEANET in Southeast Asia.