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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
Delegates with WG I Co-Chair Gabrielle Obermayr, Austria, (center) discussing synthetic biology.
Delegates met in WG sessions in the morning and evening and in plenary in the afternoon. WG I continued discussing: integration of biodiversity considerations into climate-change related activities; incentive measures; and collaborative work on forests, agriculture and health in the morning and evening. WG II addressed: the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC); capacity building for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI); and new and emerging issues.
Plenary considered: ways and means to increase SBSTTA's effectiveness and collaboration with IPBES, and adopted recommendations on the in-depth review of the work programme on island biodiversity and the preparations for the fourth Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO 4).
Working Group I
L-R: WG I dais with WG I Co-Chair Ole Hendrickson, Canada; Jaime Webbe, CBD Secretariat; and Annie Cung, CBD Secretariat
El Khitma El Awad Mohammed Ahmed, Sudan
Ines Verleye, Belgium
Christoph Dürr, Switzerland
Paulino Franco de Carvalho, Brazil
Shinichi Amada, Japan
L-R: J.R. Bhatt and Rajiv Pande, India
L-R: David Coates, CBD Secretariat consulting with Horst Korn, Germany
Working Group II
L-R:WG I Co-Chair Gabrielle Obermayr, Austria, confers with Robert Höft, CBD Secretariat
Mark Graham, Canada
Natasha Ali, UK
Utchang Kang, Republic of Korea
Betty Millan Salazar, Peru
Brigitte Baptiste, Colombia
L-R: Braulio Díaz, Venezuela conversing with Victor Canton, Uruguay
Delegates from South Africa in a discussion.
Delegates from Australia consulting text.
L-R: Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat; WG II Co-Chair Larissa Maria Lima Costa, Brazil; and Junko Shimura, CBD Secretariat
Benoit Nzigidahera, Burundi
Silvia Ribeiro, Alianza por la Biodiversidad en América Latina
Andrew Bignell, New Zealand
Carlos Alberto Cattaneo, Argentina
Neil Frank R. Ferrer, the Philippines
Drafting Group on Synthetic Biology
Hesiquio Benitez Diaz, Mexico, drafting group Chair
View of the drafting group in session.
Friends of the Chair Group on REDD+
View of the packed session of the Friends of the Chair Group on REDD+.
Plenary
L-R: SBSTTA 16 Chair Senka Barudanovic confers with Robert Höft, CBD Secretariat; and David Cooper, CBD Secretariat.
Somaly Chan, Cambodia
Angela Williamson, Australia
Karma Nyedrup, Bhutan
Joseph Lawrence Brider, Cook Islands
Small Islands Big Difference campaign from Island Conservation
L-R: Lucy Mulenkei, African Indigenous Women's Organization; Yoko Watanabe, Global Environment Facility (GEF); and Joji Cariño, Tebtebba Foundation
L-R: Neil Pratt, Charles Gbedemah, Michele Rattray, CBD Secretariat
L-R: Ailis Rego and Maria Crespo, CBD Secretariat
L-R: Sirikul Bunpapong, Thailand and Somaly Chan, Cambodia
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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)
