Summary
COP 14 participants from civil society and indigenous and local communities paid tribute to environmental defenders who were killed since 2017
On Wednesday, Working Group I addressed several items, including:
- enhancing integration under the Convention and its Protocols with respect to access and benefit-sharing (ABS);
- compliance under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;
- cooperation with other organizations under the Convention and its Protocols;
- review of effectiveness of processes under the Convention and its Protocols;
- review of progress in the implementation of the Strategic Plan;
- assessment and review under the Nagoya Protocol; and
- resource mobilization under the Convention.
Working Group II considered:
- marine and coastal biodiversity;
- invasive alien species;
- liability and redress under the Convention;
- health and biodiversity under the Convention; and
- unintentional transboundary movements of living modified organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
Contact groups on digital sequence information, synthetic biology, and the process for the post-2020 framework met throughout the day.For more details on the day’s events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB).
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Clare Hamilton, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Neil Pratt, CBD Secretariat

Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat

Hayo Haanstra (the Netherlands), Chair of Working Group I

Prudence Tangham Galega, Cameroon

Somaly Chan, Cambodia

L-R: Aldo Claure and Teresa Perez, Bolivia

Teona Karchava, Georgia

Sri Ratnaningsih, Indonesia

Jerome Smith, Jamaica

Marco Rebelo, Portugal

Coumba Toure Kane, ISAAA

Soseala Tinilau, Tuvalu

Jorge Ernesto Quezada Diaz, El Salvador

Arun Kumar Mehta, India

L-R: Anne Theo Seinen and Tone Smith Spash, EU

L-R: Clare Hamilton, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, with Christelle Van Wessenbeeck, Ines Verleye, and Kelly Hertweg, Belgium

Clarissa Nina (Brazil), Chair of Working Group II

Cristina Romanelli, CBD Secretariat

Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat

L-R: Carlos Alberto Cueto Carrión, Peru; Georgina Catacora Vargas, Bolivia; and Edison Mayorga, Venezuela

Delegates in informal consultations

Georgina Catacora Vargas, Bolivia

Daniela Diz, WWF and TNC

Hesiquio Benitez Diaz, Mexico

Shirin Karryeva, Turkmenistan

Delegates in informal consultation on unintentional transboundary movements of living modified organisms

Lena Chan, Singapore

Anne Gabrielle Wüst Saucy, Switzerland

Adam van Opzeeland, New Zealand

Marie Haraldstad, Norway

Ricarda Steinbrecher, Federation of German Scientists

Volodymyr Domashlinets, Ukraine

José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala

L-R: Mostafa Madbouhi and Larbi Sbai, Morocco

L-R: Mohamed Ali Ben Temessek, Tunisia, with Nabil Hamada, Sahara and Sahel Observatory

Participants from the Indigenous Women's Network on Biodiversity

Delegates from Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay and Dominican Republic

Celebration of the entry into force of the Supplementary Protocol on liability and redress to the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety