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IN THE CORRIDORS

Having taken delivery of what one delegate described as an “encyclopedic” series of reports from the CBD Secretariat, a number of participants have signaled a desire that SBSTTA-2 begin to reconcile the conflicting demands of a heavy and complex workload with the need to make progress on clarifying objectives and priorities. Another underlined the danger that SBSTTA may be “trying to do everything and doing nothing.” A common call was: “What first ? What most ?”