Highlights and images for 9 July 2018

Canada

Summary

The second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opened on Monday, following the 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 22) and a Sunday seminar on transformational change for the biodiversity agenda.

Delegates heard opening remarks, addressed organizational matters, and engaged in discussions on:

  • review of progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan 2011-2020;
  • assessment and review of the effectiveness of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS); and
  • mainstreaming of biodiversity within and across sectors, and other strategic actions to enhance implementation.

In the evening, an opening reception was held on the theme “Indigenous peoples, local communities and the future of biodiversity.”

For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis from SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2.

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L-R: Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation; Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat; SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda); Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico; CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer; and CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper


Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico

SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal

CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer

Jiří Hlaváček, UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

SBI 2 observed a moment of silence in memory of Olivier de Munck, CBD Secretariat

SBI 2 keynote speaker, Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation

View of a presentation by Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation

Belal Alhayek, Syrian Arab Republic

Eugenia Arguedas Montezuma, Costa Rica

Jesus Guerra Bell, Cuba

Soonhwan Hwang, Republic of Korea

Prudence Tangham Galega, Cameroon

Wolfram Tertschnig, Austria, for the EU

Wilson Rojas, Ecuador

Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Shoni Munhedzi, South Africa

Fionna Cumming, New Zealand

Arora Sujata, India

Crisanta Marlene Rodriguez, the Philippines

Jing Xin, China

View of a presentation on mainstreaming biodiversity by UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and African Wildlife Foundation

Neville Ash, UNEP-WCMC

Jimmiel Mandima, African Wildlife Foundation

SBI 2 Snapshots

L-R: Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation; and CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer

Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation, with CBD Secretariat, and SBSTTA 22 Chair Mundita Lim

Delegates from Small Island Developing States consulting

L-R: CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer and Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) geared towards enhancing cooperation between the two Secretariats.

SBSTTA 22 Chair Mundita Lim (center) with participants from the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

L-R: Lahcene Rekik, Lisa Pedicelli, and Florence Blot, CBD Secretariat

Participants