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19th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
and 9th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j)
and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

2-5 and 4-7 November 2015 | Headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Montreal, Canada

Highlights for Tuesday, 3 November 2015

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Delegates from the Like-minded Megadiverse Countries (LMMCs) in informal consultations. L-R: Gemedo
Dalle Tussie
, Ethiopia; Clarissa Nina, Brazil; Malta Qwathekana, South Africa; Ana Morales, Guatemala;
and José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala

On Tuesday, 3 November 2015, SBSTTA 19 delegates met in plenary throughout the day to consider: biodiversity and human health; climate-related geoengineering; forest biodiversity; and the work programme of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) for 2014-2018, SBSTTA's work and its relationship with CBD Subsidiary Body on Implementation. In the afternoon, delegates adopted a recommendation on the effectiveness of policy instruments for the implementation of the Biodiversity Strategic Plan.

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the 19th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and 9th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In addition, IISD Rerporting Services will provide a summary and analysis, available in HTML and PDF formats. Available in ENB Mobile at:http://enb.iisd.mobi/biodiv-sbstta19-wg8j9/.

L-R: SBSTTA Chair Andrew Bignell; David Cooper, CBD Secretariat; and David Coates, CBD Secretariat



Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, World Health Organization (WHO), in a video message, addressed the SBSTTA plenary regarding the
linkages between biodiversity and health.



Tia Stevens, Australia

Inger Helene Sira, Norway

Daisy Joyce Djohor, Indonesia


Simon Nemtzov, Israel

Marco D'Alessandro, Switzerland

Larbi Sbai, Morocco



L-R: Tone Solhaug, Norway, in a conversation with Linda Collette, former Food and Agriculture Organization of the
UN (FAO) staff member



Suneetha Subramanian, UN University (UNU)

Atelaite Lupe Matoto, Tonga

Maria Eugenia Choque Quispe, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)


Sorka Copa Romero, Bolivia

Clarissa Nina, Brazil

Roxana Solis Ortiz, Peru


Phillip Williamson, UK Natural Environment Research Council and University of East Anglia,
presented on the updated report on climate-related geoengineering in relation to the CBD



Genene Tefera, Ethiopia

Soumanegré Nana, Burkina Faso

Dan Leskien, FAO


Hassan-Y-Alayied, Saudi Arabia

El Khitma El Awad Mohammed Ahmed, Sudan

Byoung Yoon Lee, Republic of Korea


L-R: Jason Spensley, Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), in discussion with Sarat Babu Gidda,
CBD Secretariat



Fumiko Nakao, Japan

Rodrigo Moreno, Colombia

Dao Nguyen, WWF

Side Events

Side event on Indigenous Peoples' and Local Communities' Collective Contributions to Biodiversity Conservation
through Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) and the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative



L-R: Almuth Ostermeyer-Schlöder, Germany, and Simone Lovera, Global
Forest Coalition


Side event organized by CIRAD, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and the CBD, promoting the upcoming
Summer School on "Accounting Ecosystems" at UQAM





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