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Sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 16) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
30 April - 5 May 2012 | International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) headquarters, Montreal, Canada
Participants in a huddle discussing marine spatial planning.
SBSTTA 16 delegates met in two working groups (WGs) throughout the day. WG I discussed: collaborative work on forests, agriculture and health; the fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO 4); and proposals on integrating biodiversity considerations into climate-change related activities.
WG II considered: capacity building for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI); new and emerging issues; and island biodiversity. A contact group on marine and coastal biodiversity met in the afternoon and evening.
Working Group I
L-R: WG I dais with Cristina Romanelli, CBD Secretariat; Jaime Webbe, CBD Secretariat; WG I Co-Chair Maadjou Bah, Guinea; WG I Co-Chair Ole Hendrickson, Canada; and Kieran Noonan Mooney, CBD Secretariat
Eva Juul, Denmark
Boniface Soumayila Bancé, Burkina Faso
Wendy Jackson, New Zealand
Hesiquio Benitez Diaz, Mexico
Edgar Selvin Pérez, Guatemala
L-R: David Cooper, CBD Secretariat; WG I Co-Chair Maadjou Bah, Guinea; and WG I Co-Chair Ole Hendrickson, Canada
L-R: Gemedo Dalle Tussie, Ethiopia and Francis Ogwal, Uganda
L-R: Ivanise de Melo Maciel, Brazil, in discussion with delegates from India.
Delegates from Mexico in consultation.
Working Group II
L-R: Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat; WG II Co-Chair Larissa Maria Lima Costa, Brazil; and Oliver Hillel, CBD Secretariat
Faleafaga Toni Tipama'a, Samoa
Neil Frank R. Ferrer, the Philippines
Floyd Homer, Trinidad and Tobago
L-R: Daniela Diz, WWF, in a conversation with Alexander Shestakov, Russian Federation.
Participants from NGOs consulting.
L-R: Delegates from Iceland, Sigurdur Thrainsson and Ásta Einarsdóttir
Sophie Mirgaux, Belgium
Contact Group on Marine Biodiversity
L-R: Contact Group Co-Chair Paulino Franco de Carvalho, Brazil; Contact Group Co-Chair Alexander Shestakov, Russian Federation; Jihyun Lee, CBD Secretariat; and Jacquelin Grekin, CBD Secretariat
Contact Group session on Marine Biodversity.
Side Event: Synthetic Biology and Potential Impacts on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
Presented by Friends of the Earth, ETC Group, EcoNexus, CTA
and Ecoropa
Participants from Island States consulting.
L-R: Shyama Pagad, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Samy Gaiji, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); and Sarah Simons, CAB International
Len Hirsch, US, at the Invasive Alien Species and Taxonomy Expert Kiosk.
L-R: Victor Ogbuneke and Olivier Rukundo, CBD Secretariat
L-R: Cynthia Conlon; Johanne Huppe; and Veronique Allain, CBD Secretariat
L-R: Didier Babin, CBD Secretariat (center) with Patama Domrongphol and Sirikul Bunpapong, Thailand
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Sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 16) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
