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Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) and First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (NP COP/MOP 1)

6-17 and 13-17 October 2014 | Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea

Daily Web Coverage (Click on the Following Links to See our Daily Webpages)

Intro - 6 October - 7 October - 8 October - 9 October - 10 October
13 October - 14 October - 15 October - 16 October - 17 October

Highlights for Wednesday, 15 October 2014

A High-level Segment convened throughout the day. Working Group I addressed draft decisions on biodiversity and sustainable development, gender mainstreaming, improving efficiency, and the multi-year work programme under the COP. They also addressed capacity building and the access and benefit-sharing clearing house under the Nagoya Protocol. Working Group II considered draft decisions on ecosystem conservation and restoration, and climate change. Several contact and informal groups met during the day and into the night.

L-R: Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP; Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global
Environment Facility (GEF); COP 12 President Seongkyu Yoon; Hongwon Chung, Prime Minister, Republic of Korea; Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP; Choi Moon-soon, Governor, Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea; and CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias

HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT OPENING PLENARY

View of the opening plenary of the COP 12 High-Level Segment

COP 12 President Seongkyu Yoon

Hongwon Chung, Prime Minister, Republic of Korea

Video message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Helen Clark, Administrator, UNDP

Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UNEP

Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, GEF

CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias

L-R: María Eugenia Choque Quispe, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII); Reginald Melanson, Canadian Business and
Biodiversity Council; Amy Fraenkel, CBD Secretariat; CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias; COP 12 President
Seongkyu Yoon; Sanghoon Kim, Moderator; Choi Moon-soon, Governor of Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea; Cristian Samper,
Wildife Conservation Society; Choony Kim, CBD; and Christian Schwarzer, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN)

Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 presentation

Choi Moon-soon, Governor, Gangwon
Province, Republic of Korea

Cristian Samper, Wildife Conservation
Society

Reginald Melanson, Canadian Business
and Biodiversity Council

L-R: Christian Schwarzer and Melina Sakiyama, GYBN

Choony Kim, CBD Alliance

María Eugenia Choque Quispe, UNPFII

PANEL DISCUSSION 1: INTEGRATING BIODIVERSITY INTO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
AND POST-2015 AGENDA

L-R: Barbara Degani, Under-Secretary of Environment, Land and Sea, Italy; UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut; Amy
Fraenkel, CBD Secretariat; Juan José Guerra Abud, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico; Sanghoon
Kim, Moderator; Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director-General IUCN; and Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, GEF

UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique
Barbut

Juan José Guerra Abud, Secretary of the
Environment and Natural Resources,
Mexico

Barbara Degani, Under-Secretary of
Environment, Land and Sea, Italy

L-R: Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director-General IUCN, and Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, GEF

María Fabiana Loguzzo, Director-General
for Environmental Affairs, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Argentina

Lars Andreas Lunde, State Secretary,
Ministry of Climate and Environment,
Norway

Thet Thet Zin, Deputy Minister, Ministry
of Environment Conservation and
Forestry, Myanmar

Uahekua Herunga, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Namibia

PANEL DISCUSSION 2: INTEGRATING NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLANS (NBSAPs) INTO NATIONAL AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY ERADICATION STRATEGIES AND PLANNING PROCESSES

L-R: Francisco Gaetani, Deputy Minister of Environment, Brazil; Marcellin Rabeantoandro, Deputy Minister of Environment,
Ecology and Forest, Madagascar; Amy Fraenkel, CBD Secretariat; Francisco Prieto, Undersecretary of the Environment,
Ecuador; Sanghoon Kim, Moderator; and Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Former Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica

Francisco Gaetani, Deputy Minister of Environment, Brazil

Marcellin Rabeantoandro, Deputy Minister of Environment,
Ecology and Forest, Madagascar

Francisco Prieto, Undersecretary of the Environment, Ecuador

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Former Minister of Environment and
Energy, Costa Rica

Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, Global Forest
Coalition

Natalya Minchenko, Belarus

Inutu Etambuyu Suba, Zambia

Ernesto Adobo Jr., Undersecretary of
the Environment, the Philippines

Susan Brown, WWF International

His Highness Prince Bandar bin Saud
bin Mohammad Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia

L-R: Kilaparti Ramakrishna, ESCAP, with Kimo Goree, IISD

WORKING GROUP I

L-R: Didier Babin, CBD Secretariat; Didier Babin, CBD Secretariat; WG I Chair Tone Solhaug; Ravi Sharma, CBD Secretariat; David Duthie, CBD Secretariat

Marco D’Alessandro, Switzerland

Roxana Solis Ortiz, Peru

Anne Theo Seinen, EU

Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat, and Marco D’Alessandro, Switzerland

Thiago Medeiros da Cunha Cavalcanti, Brazil

Lijie Cai, CBD Secretariat

Jones Muleso Kharika, South Africa

Julian Jackson, UK

Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat

Victor Cantón, Uruguay

Cornelia Paulsch and Alex Paulsch, Germany

Mike Ipanga Mwaku, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Trish
Hayes, Canada

Andrea Cruz-Angón, Mexico, and Roxana Solis Ortiz, Peru

Amélie Rioux, World Health Organization, and Cristina Romanelli, CBD Secretariat

Delegates having a discussion during Working Group I

Delegates consulting

WORKING GROUP II

WG II Chair María Luisa del Rio Mispireta consulting with the CBD Secretariat

Marte Sendstad, Norway

Cecilia Wong, Canada

Hans Friederich and Michael Devlin, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan

Kamar Yousuf, UNEP, Wendy Jackson, New Zealand and Makiko Yashiro, UNEP

Santiago Obispo, Red de Cooperacion Amazonica (REDCAM), Paul Oldham, One World Analytics, and Akemi Mitsuishi, Japan Civil Network for United Nations Decade on Biodiversity

Delegates from Ecuador

Specific funding for coverage of this meeting has been provided by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Finnish Ministry of Environment

Daily Web Coverage (Click on the Following Links to See our Daily Webpages)

Intro - 6 October - 7 October - 8 October - 9 October - 10 October
13 October - 14 October - 15 October - 16 October

COP 12 Resources

COP 12 Website

COP 12 Documents

COP 12 Provisional Annotated Agenda

COP 12 Draft Decisions

COP12 HLS doncuments

High Level Segment Documents

High-Level Segment Programme

COP 12 Side Events

Biodiversity Summit

Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Fair during COP 12

Rio Conventions Pavilion

Host Country Website

NP COP/MOP 1 Resources

NP COP/MOP 1 Website

NP COP/MOP 1 Documents

NP COP/MOP 1 Annotated Provisional Agenda

ABS-CH Workshop

IISD RS Resources

IISD RS coverage of the Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 7), 29 September - 3 October 2014, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea

IISD RS coverage of the Fifth meeting of the Working Group on the Review of Implementation (WGRI 5) of the CBD and Eighteenth meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 18), 16-20 and 23-28 June 2014, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Headquarters, Montreal, Canada

IISD RS coverage of the Third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad-Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ICNP 3), 24-28 February 2014, Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea

IISD RS coverage of the Eighth meeting of the Ad-Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) (traditional knowledge) and Related Provisions of the CBD and CBD SBSTTA 17, 7-11 and 14-18 October 2013, ICAO headquarters, Montreal, Canada

IISD RS coverage of CBD COP 11, 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

IISD RS coverage of Selected Side Events at CBD COP 11, 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

IISD RS coverage of the Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP 6), 1-5 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

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