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Second 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-2)
ICNP 2 delegates met in plenary to discuss the ABS clearing-house, capacity building, awareness-raising and compliance. A lunchtime informal roundtable discusion illustrated progress made towards ratification of the Protocol.
Sculpture at the convention center entilted "Facing Nightmare Alone" by Ratnabali Kant.
ABS Clearing-House
Desmond Mahon, Canada
Mónica Rosell, Peru
Antung Deddy, Indonesia
View of the morning plenary session.
Kangayatkarasu Nagulendran, Malaysia
Polina Shulbaeva, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)
Apisake Monthienvichienchai, Thailand
Delegates from the EU consulting.
Capacity Building
L-R: Co-Chairs Fernando Casas, Colombia, and Janet Lowe, New Zealand
Abdul-Hakim Aulaiah, Yemen
Choi Won Mog, Republic of Korea
Ali Al-Lami, Iraq
L-R: Ayman Tharwat Abdel Aziz, Egypt, in a discussion with Constance Dlamini, Swaziland
Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Ghana
Dayuan Xue, China
Ackim Mwape, Zambia
Jessica Noelia Díaz, Argentina
L-R: Benjamin Phillips, Australia, and Melesha Banhan, Antigua and Barbuda
L-R: ENB writers Elsa Tsioumani, Catherine Benson and Elisa Morgera in conversation with Gurdial Singh, Malaysia.
L-R: ENB writer Eugenia Recio with Edgar Selvin Pérez, Guatemala