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
Adam van Opzeeland, New Zealand
L-R: Anne Teller and Karin Zaunberger, EU
El Khitma El Awad Mohammed
Ahmed, Sudan
Holly Jonas, Global Forest Coalition and ICCA Consortium
Grecia Bárcena, Global Youth Biodiversity Network
Stan Lui, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)
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
Helena Brown, Antigua and Barbuda
Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia
Johanna Niemivuo-Lahti, Finland
Gregg Howald, Island Conservation
Irene Hoffmann, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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.