Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary with CBD staff
On Wednesday, Working Groups met in morning and evening sessions. Working Group I addressed:
- enhancing integration regarding biosafety and access and benefit-sharing (ABS);
- conflicts of interest in expert groups;
- resource mobilization and the financial mechanism; and
- digital sequence information (DSI).
WG II addressed:
- marine and coastal biodiversity, including ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs);
- risk assessment and risk management under the Cartagena Protocol;
- socio-economic considerations under the Cartagena Protocol; and
- synthetic biology.
In the afternoon, plenary considered scenarios for the 2050 vision, and the post-2020 preparatory process.Contact groups and Friends of the Chair groups met throughout the day to address: DSI; the budget; the post-2020 preparatory process; marine and coastal biodiversity, including EBSAs; and resource mobilization and the financial mechanism.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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Hayo Haanstra (the Netherlands), Chair of Working Group I
Nikolay Tzvetkot, Bulgaria, Co-Chair of the contact group on digital sequence information (DSI)
Laure Ledoux, EU, Chair of the contact group on resource mobilization and the financial mechanism
Thomas Greiber, Germany, Chair of the contact group on a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism under Article 10 of the Nagoya Protocol
L-R: Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat; Hayo Haanstra (the Netherlands), Chair of Working Group I; and Beatriz Gómez-Castro, CBD Secretariat
L-R: Julieta Sarno and Micaela Bonafina, Argentina
Sonia Lopes, Cabo Verde
Michelle Valdivieso, Ecuador
Ruliyana Susanti, Indonesia
Mukonyi Kabaka, Kenya
Henry Philippe Ibañez de Novion, Brazil
Ala Rotaru, Moldova
Tadashi Sato, Japan
Yajna Nath Dahal, Nepal
Candace Amoroso, Trinidad and Tobago
Matthieu Seydoux, Switzerland
L-R: Roxana Ionescu and Madalin Blidaru, Romania
L-R: Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; Clarissa Nina (Brazil), Chair of Working Group II; and Manoela Pessoa de Miranda, CBD Secretariat
Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia
Daniel Lewis, Grenada
Jim Louter, Canada
Mitzi Gurgel Valente da Costa, Brazil
Chang Jiang, China
Karin Molt, Chile
Flora Mpanju, African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
Keiko Okamoto, Japan
Jésus Guerra Bell, Cuba
Daniel Wai-Poi, New Zealand
L-R: Cuc Nguyen and Van Truong, Viet Nam
L-R: Soonok Kim and Byoungyoon Lee, Republic of Korea
Participants from civil society and non-governmental organizations
L-R: Robert Höft, CBD Secretariat; David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt; and Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary
Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary
COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt
Spencer Thomas, Grenada, Chair of the budget group
Charlotta Sörvist, Sweden, Co-Chair of the contact group on the post-2020 framework
L-R: Houssein Rirache Robleh, Djibouti, and Augustin Ngoliele, Republic of Congo
L-R: Jung-Tao Chao and Ling-Ling Lee, Swan International
L-R: Barbara De Rosa-Joynt, US, and Jozef Buys, Belgium
Nader Ibrahim, CBD Secretariat
L-R: Kiruben Naicker and Malta Qwathekana, South Africa
L-R: Mohamed Tariq and Mohamad Shata, local staff; Kinda Jabi and Akram Darwich, International Fund for Animal Welfare; and Belal Al-Hayek, Syria
Civil society action in the corridors of the Conference