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66th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

11-15 January 2016 | Geneva, Switzerland

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The sixty-sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES SC66) will meet in Geneva, Switzerland from 11-15 January 2016.

During CITES SC66, participants will consider: reports of the intersessional working groups on Asian Big Cats, rhino, pangolins and cheetahs; elephants, including a proposal by Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Kenya on the decision-making mechanism for authorizing ivory trade, and the report of the intersessional working group on the review of Resolution Conf. 10.9 on Consideration of proposals for the transfer of African elephant populations from Appendix I to Appendix II; the implementation of the CITES Strategic Vision: 2008-2020; reports of the Secretariat and Madagascar on Ebonies and rosewoods and palisanders; reports on sharks and rays; and review of significant trade, including reports of the Animals and Plants Committees on evaluation.

IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web updates and a summary and analysis report from the 66th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Our summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF.


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IISD Reporting Services is grateful to the many donors of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) and recognizes the following as core contributors to the ENB: the European Union, the Government of Switzerland (the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. General Support for the Bulletin during 2016 is provided by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, SWAN International, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Japanese Ministry of Environment (through the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies - IGES), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).