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Sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 16) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
30 April - 5 May 2012 | International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) headquarters, Montreal, Canada
Delegates from Africa in informal consultations regarding EBSAS.
The SBSTTA 16 final plenary convened at 10 am on Saturday morning to resolve outstanding issues on draft recommendations on capacity building for the Global Taxonomy initiative, biodiversity safeguards for REDD+, and identification of ecologically and biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs). After prolonged discussions and informal consultations on EBSAs, SBSTTA 16 adopted these and eight other recom-mendations in addition to the recommendations on island biodiversity and the preparations for the fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook, which were already adopted on Thursday. Delegates also adopted the reports of the WGs and the meeting report. CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Dias said that SBSTTA 16 had underlined the important role that IPBES will play for SBSTTA and the implementation of the Convention, and encouraged delegates to promote the mainstreaming of biodiversity in all sectors through the review of their national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs).
Chair Barudanovic thanked participants for their work and gaveled the meeting to close at: 4:16 pm.
Plenary
L-R: Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary; SBSTTA 16 Chair Senka Barudanovic; and David Cooper, CBD Secretariat
Ghassan Ramadan Jaradi, Lebanon
Eunice Dus, Papua New Guinea
John Esitadimma Onyekuru, Nigeria
Raed Bani Hani, Jordan
Rachel Pearlin Muthumanikam, Greenpeace
L-R: China, Denmark and Belgium in informal consultations.
Valeria Gonzalez Posse, Argentina
Joy Angelica Santos-Doctor, the Philippines
Daniela Diz, WWF
WG I Co-Chair Maadjou Bah, Guinea, reported on the outcomes of WG I.
WG II Co-Chair Gabrielle Obermayr, Austria, reported the outcomes of WG II.
View of the closing plenary session.
Malta Qwathekana, South Africa
WG II Co-Chair Larissa Maria Lima Costa, Brazil
Louis Biswane, IIFB
Delegates from Turkey
L-R: Neimatullo Safarov, Tajikistan consulting with Andreas Obecht, Switzerland
Monyrak Meng, Cambodia, SBSTTA 16 Rapporteur
Christian Prip, Denmark
Barbara DeRosa-Joynt, US
Sergiy I. Gubar, Ukraine
SBSTTA 16 Chair Senka Barudanovic gavelled the meeting to a close at 4:16pm.
Delegates from Republic of Korea
Delegates from the Philippines
SBSTTA 16 Chair Senka Barudanovic posing with participants from WWF.
L-R: Lisa Janishevski, Nader Ibrahim and Jacqueline Grekin, CBD Secretariat
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Sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 16) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
