Summary
The 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 22) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) reached its halfway point Wednesday in Montreal. Delegates engaged in discussions on the following agenda items:
- Biodiversity and climate change: ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction;
- Invasive alien species;
- Conservation and sustainable use of pollinators; and
- The second work programme of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
.A contact group on risk assessment and risk management of living modified organisms met during the lunch break, and contact groups on digital sequence information, and marine and coastal biodiversity met in the evening.
For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis from SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2.
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L-R: Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; Sigurdur Thrainsson (Iceland), SBSTTA Bureau; and Lisa Janishevski, CBD Secretariat
Marie Haraldstad, Norway
Lisama Sabry, Maldives
Adam van Opzeeland, New Zealand
Luciano Donadio, Argentina
L-R: Anne Teller and Karin Zaunberger, EU
Dilovarsho Dustov, Tajikistan
Liew Pei Shi, Malaysia
Ignacio March Mifsut, Mexico
Jean-François Gobeil, Canada
Catherine Debruyne, Belgium
Christoph Dürr, Switzerland
Barbara De Rosa-Joynt, US
El Khitma El Awad Mohammed
Ahmed, Sudan
Anki Weibull, Sweden
Gillian Guthrie, Jamaica
Horst Korn, Germany
Oscar Guevara, WWF
Gwen Sisior, Palau
Maheshwar Dhakal, Nepal
Holly Jonas, Global Forest Coalition and ICCA Consortium
Roxana Solis, Peru
Grecia Bárcena, Global Youth Biodiversity Network
Stan Lui, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)
Lorenzo Ciccarese, Italy
Barney Kgope, South Africa
Christian Schwarzer, Global Youth Biodiversity Network, recording Grecia Bárcena's intervention
L-R: Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; Senka Barudanovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), SBSTTA Bureau; Junko Shimura, CBD Secretariat; and Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat
T. Rabikumar, India
Hesiquio Benítez Díaz, Mexico
Helena Brown, Antigua and Barbuda
Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia
François Lengrand, France
Johanna Niemivuo-Lahti, Finland
Hendrik Segers, Belgium
Chrissy Grant, IIFB
Gregg Howald, Island Conservation
Irene Hoffmann, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Amelia Arreguín, Mexico
Anne Larigauderie, IPBES Executive Secretary
L-R: Mohammed Mobarak Alshamlan and Faisal Shuraim, Saudi Arabia
L-R: Glenn Litsios, Eva Spehn, and Norbert Bärlocher, Switzerland
Junko Shimura, CBD Secretariat, with delegates from the Pacific Island states
SBSTTA Side Event
UNDP, UNEP, and the CBD Secretariat launched the UN Biodiversity Lab, a platform to support Parties to utilize spatial data in their Sixth National Report and conservation planning.