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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

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

Highlights for Monday, 6 October 2014

COP 12 opening plenary heard opening and regional statements; addressed organizational issues; and discussed the fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4). In the afternoon, Working Group I (WG I) addressed the GBO-4 and the mid-term review of the implementation of the Strategic Plan. WG II addressed Article 8(j) (traditional knowledge).

Performance of traditional Korean drums during the opening plenary of COP 12 in Pyeongchang,
Republic of Korea

OPENING PLENARY

L-R: Hem Pande, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change of India
and COP 11 President, hands over the COP Presidency to Yoon Seongkyu, Minister of Environment,
Republic of Korea

Hem Pande, COP 11 President

Yoon Seongkyu, COP 12 President

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

Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
(UNEP)

CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias

L-R: Jae Chun Choe, President, National Institute of Ecology, Republic of Korea; CBD Executive Secretary Braulio
Ferreira de Souza Dias; Choi Moon-soon, Governor of Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea; Hem Pande, COP 11
President; Yoon Seongkyu, COP 12 President; Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UNEP; Dong Yeol Yeom, Member of
the National Assembly, Republic of Korea; David Cooper, CBD Secretariat; and Kim Si-sung, Chairperson of the
Gangwon Province Council

Moustafa Mokhtar Ali Fouda, Egypt

Chaweewan Hutacharern, Thailand

Sean Sullivan, Australia

Spencer Thomas, Grenada

Felice Cappelluti, EU

Malta Qwathekana, South Africa

Mohamed El Abd Cheikh Sidi Mohamed, Mauritania

Ioseb Kartsivadze, Georgia

View of the COP 12 opening plenary session

ICNP Co-Chair Fernando Casas

Neth Daño, ETC Group, on behalf of NGOs

Susan Brown, WWF International

Aslak Holmberg, International Indigenous Forum on
Biodiversity (IIFB)

Ho-Min Jang, Republic of Korea

L-R: Minjae Song and Reem Al Mealla, Global Youth Biodiversity Network

WORKING GROUP I

Working Group I Chair Tone Solhaug, Norway

Yousef Saleh Alhafedh, Saudi Arabia

Somaly Chan, Cambodia

Gemedo Dalle Tussie, Ethiopia

Léontine Crisson, the Netherlands

Edgar Selvin Pérez, Guatemala

WORKING GROUP II

Working Group II Chair María Luisa del Rio Mispireta, Peru

Naohisa Okuda, Japan

Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, the Philippines

Gaute Voigt-Hanssen, Norway

Abdoulaye Bine Guindo, Mali

Saulo Ceolin, Brazil

Rosemary Paterson, New Zealand

Claudio Chiarolla, EU

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

Participants from indigenous and local communities

Side Events at CBD COP 12

ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning and practice

Inventory of methods and country application to assess, value and integrate ecosystem services into decision making

Ulrike Tröger, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Marina Kosmus, GIZ

Rudolf Specht, German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) hosted this side event on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF). The project aims to develop instruments and training courses, provide technical advice, facilitate planning and decision-making processes and promote knowledge-sharing. An inventory of methods, tools and indicators on how best to assess, valuate and integrate ecosystem services into policies and practices was presented, as well as experiences in assessing and integrating ecosystem services into national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) in selected countries, including Mexico and Namibia.

Side event participants following a presentation

More Information:

www.aboutvalues.net

Contacts:

Konrad Uebelhör, GIZ
konrad.uebelhoer@giz.de
Marina Kosmus, GIZ
marina.kosmus@giz.de
Ulrike Tröger, GIZ
ulrike.troeger@giz.de
Rudolf Specht, BMUB
rudolf.specht@bmub.bund.de
Alonso Martínez
alonso.martinez@conanp.gob.mx

The UK’s Darwin Initiative: Experiences from the NBSAPs 2.0 Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development Project

John Tayleur, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)

Karime Ndapanda, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia

Aggrey Rwetsiba, Uganda Wildlife Authority

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) convened a side event to show how the UK’s Darwin Initiative supports implementation of the CBD. The side event focused on the wide range of projects that the Initiative supports, showcasing the NBSAPs 2.0 Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development Project, funded by the Darwin Initiative. The NBSAP 2.0 is a three-year project supporting four African countries – Botswana, Namibia, the Seychelles and Uganda – to build resilient NBSAPs. During the event, Jeremy Eppel (Defra) announced additional funding of £150,000 as a follow-up to this project.

Babucarr Dumbaya, Gambia

Delegates having a discussion during the side event

More Information:

http://iied.org/nbsaps-20-mainstreaming-biodiversity-development

Contacts:

John Tayleur
John.Tayleur@unep-wcmc.org
Sally Cunningham
Sally.Cunningham@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Jeremy Eppel
jeremy.eppel@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Second Dialogue Seminar on Scaling up Finance for Biodiversity

Diego Pacheco, Bolivia

Yves de Soye, UNDP

Claudia Ituarte-Lima, International Environmental Law at Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC)

Bente Herstad, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

Rikiya Konishi, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

This side event reported on the Second Dialogue Seminar on Scaling up Financing for Biodiversity, organized by the Governments of Ecuador, Norway, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, Uganda, the European Commission and the CBD Secretariat, which took place from 9-12 April 2014, in Quito, Ecuador. The dialogue seminar focused on: building trust and mutual understanding of the diversity of views and perspectives on values of biodiversity; reviewing ways and means to mainstream various biodiversity values into national decision making and other multilateral processes; and seeking enhanced understanding of various operationalizing mechanisms for mobilizing financial and non-financial resources, including safeguards for their implementation.

Participants following a presentation during the session

COP 12 SNAPSHOTS

COP 12 delegates from the Philippines

Yoon Seongkyu, COP 12 President

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

L-R: Marco Rebelo, Portugal, Pedro Arriegas, Portugal and Paulo Carmo, Portugal

Kiruben Naicker, South Africa and Wilma Lutsch, South Africa

Protesters at COP 12

Around the Venue

Delegates entering the convention hall

Participants reading the Earth Negotiations Bulletin

Alpensia Convention Center

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

Related Links

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

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