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IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily web coverage, daily reports, and a joint summary and analysis of both the Article 8(j)-8 and SBSTTA-17 meeting. To download our reports, click the HTML or PDF icons below.


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Curtain Raiser
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9 Oct
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14 Oct
15 Oct
16 Oct
17 Oct
18 Oct & Summary


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21 Oct

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Eighth meeting of the Ad-Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) (traditional knowledge) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Seventeenth meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA)

7-11 and 14-18 October 2013
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) headquarters, Montreal, Canada

Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)

Intro - 7 October - 8 October - 9 October - 10 October - 11 October
14 October - 15 October - 16 October - 17 October - 18 October

Highlights for Monday, 14 October 2013

The seventeenth meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) opened on Monday, 14 October 2013, in Montreal, Canada. Delegates met in plenary throughout the day for: keynote addresses on mobilizing science in support of policies to achieve the Aichi Targets and on the Article 8(j) Working Group’s in-depth dialogue on integrating traditional knowledge; and panel discussions on biodiversity monitoring and on Strategic Goal A (addressing underlying causes of biodiversity loss through biodiversity mainstreaming).

Civil society protest against GMOs over the weekend

L-R: Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary; SBSTTA Chair Gemedo Dalle Tussie, Ethiopia; and David Cooper, CBD Secretariat

OPENING PLENARY

Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive
Secretary

SBSTTA Chair Gemedo Dalle Tussie, Ethiopia

Jonathan Davies, Liberia

Hendrik Segers, Belgium

Alexander Shestakov, Russian
Federation

View of the SBSTTA 17 opening plenary session

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Abdul Hamid Zakri, Malaysia, Chair of the
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Joji Cariño, Forest Peoples Programme

PANEL ON BIODIVERSITY MONITORING

Donald Hobern, Global Biodiversity
Information Facility

Bob Scholes, Chair of the Group on Earth
Observations Biodiversity Observation
Network (GEO BON)

Pernilla Malmer, Sweden, Stockholm
Resilience Centre

Panel on Biodiversity Monitoring

Eugenia Arguedas Montezuma, Costa
Rica

Marc Paganini, European Space Agency

Rajae Chafil, Institut de la Francophonie
pour le développement durable

Risa Smith, Canada

Clarissa Arida, ASEAN Centre for
Biodiversity

PANEL ON BIODIVERSITY MAINSTREAMING

Tone Solhaug, Norway

Stanley Asah, University of Washington

Valerie Hickey, World Bank

Somanegré Nana, Burkina Faso

View of the participants in plenary

Gina Malia Sui Lin Nobrega, IIFB

Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek, Global Forest
Coalition

Malta Qwathekana, South Africa

Nabil Hamada, Tunisia

Kevin McCluskey, World Federation for
Culture Collections

Abdulhakim Abdullah Rajeh Aulaiah,
Yemen

L-R: Bozena Haczek, Poland; Alexander Shestakov, Russian Federation; and Shirin Karryeva,
Turkmenistan

L-R: Raylene Liufalani, Wendy Jackson and Andrew Bignell, New Zealand

L-R: Mostafa Madbouhi; Morocco; Nabil Hamada, Tunisia; and Ali Al-Lami, Iraq

L-R: Nader Ibrahim, CBD Secretariat and Sue Diguer, Secretariat local staff

Related Links

Article 8(j) WG8 resources

Meeting website and documents

Meeting revised annotated agenda

SBSTTA 17 resources

Meeting website and documents

Meeting annotated agenda

IISD RS resources

IISD RS coverage of the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the CBD, 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

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

IISD RS coverage of SBSTTA 16, 30 April - 5 May 2012, ICAO headquarters, Montreal, Canada

IISD RS coverage of SBSTTA 15, 7-11 November 2011, Montréal, Canada

IISD RS coverage of Article 8(j) WG 7, 31 October - 4 November 2011, Montréal, Canada (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF)

IISD RS coverage of Article 8(j) WG 6, 2-6 November 2009, Montreal, Canada

IISD RS archive of meetings on the Commission on Genetic Resources (CGRFA) and ITPGRFA

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