IISD RS @ CBD Article 8(j) WG 6 - 2-6 November 2009

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Sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions (Article 8(j) WG 6) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

2-6 November 2009 | Montréal, Canada

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Highlights for Wednesday,
4 November 2009

Delegates met in plenary in the afternoon, to hear reports from the contact groups and address a draft recommendation on mechanisms for participation. The contact group on the international ABS regime met throughout the day, discussing each of the questions addressed by the expert groups on traditional knowledge and on compliance. The contact group on the work programme convened in the afternoon and evening to discuss a Co-Chairs’ text.

Delegates observed a moment of silence in memory of the late French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

L-R: Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, Co-Chair Lucy Mulenkei, Co-Chair Nicola Breier, Olivier Jalbert, John Scott and Oliver Hillel, CBD Secretariat.

CONTACT GROUPS:

L-R: ABS Contact Group Co-Chairs Merle Alexander, indigenous representative, and Damaso Luna, Mexico.

Participants from IIFB consulting.

L-R: Joji Cariño and Jennifer Corpuz, Tebtebba Foundation

Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA

Gurdial Singh, Malaysia

Marc Auer, Germany

View of the Contact Group on ABS in session.

Janet Lowe, New Zealand

Bance Soumayila, Burkina Faso

Santiago Pastor, Peru

L-R: The dais of the Contact Group on the Work Programme with John Scott, CBD Secretariat, Co-Chair Gunn-Britt Retter, indigenous representative, and Tone Solhaug, Norway.

Delegates reviewing text on the work programme.

Night session of the contact group on the work programme.

PLENARY:

L-R: WG Co-Chairs Lucy Mulenkei and Nicola Breier.

Tone Solhaug, Co-Chair of the Contact Group on the Work Programme.

Susanna Chung, Co-Chair of the Ethical Code Contact Group.

Damaso Luna, Co-Chair of the Contact Group on ABS.

Indigenous art work at the ICAO Headquarters.

Side Event:

UNEP and Natural Justice co-organized a side event on bio-cultural community protocols where a joint publication was launched by Bakary Kante, Director of UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions.