Summary
On Thursday, delegates continued consideration of draft decisions in Working Groups (WG), contact groups and Friends of the Chair groups. WG I addressed draft decisions on financial resources and mechanism, capacity building, and public awareness, resource mobilization, and compliance under the Cartagena Protocol, among others. WG II considered draft decisions on: ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs); synthetic biology; and national reports. Contact groups and Friends of the Chair groups met throughout the day to address: transboundary movements of living modified organisms (LMOs); Article 8(j) (traditional knowledge); capacity building; digital sequence information on genetic resources; EBSAs; synergies; financial mechanism; a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol; risk assessment of LMOs; and the budget.
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Working Group I
L-R: Marcus Lehmann, CBD Secretariat; WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark); Manoela Pessoa de Miranda; CBD Secretariat and Ravi Sharma, CBD Secretariat
Nneka Nicholas, Antigua and Barbuda
Ruben Dekker, EU
Emmanuel Bayani Ngoyi, Gabon
Leslie Melisa Ojeda Cabrera, Guatemala
Babucarr Dumbuya, the Gambia
Jafar Barmaki, Iran
Angela Lozan, Moldova
Ho-Min Jang, Republic of Korea
L-R: Sergei Melnov and Elena Makeyeva, Belarus, reviewing text
L-R: Marle Aguilar Ponce and Lenin O'Connor Cano, Honduras
Working Group II
WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa)
Ágnes Fejes, Hungary
Eleni Tokaduadua, Fiji
Jorge Ernesto Quezada Diaz, El Salvador
Anne Teller, EU
Didier Babin, CIRAD
David Hafashimana, Uganda
Esther Shushu Makwaia, Tanzania
Stefan Leiner, EU
Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group
Anne Daniel, Canada
Melissa Cotterill, Australia
L-R: Victoria Lichtschein, Ana Julia Gutierrez Telleria, and Marcia Levaggi, Argentina
Delegates from South Africa
Delegates from France
COP 13 Snapshots
L-R: Maria Crespo, Véronique Allain, Anastasia Beliaeva, and Vince Gopez, CBD Secretariat
Delegates from Thailand
César Augusto Azurdia Pérez, Guatemala, and Teresa Agüero Teare, Chile
Flash event organized by ICCA