Summary
IPBES-5 delegates met in plenary in the morning and afternoon. Two contact groups met in the evening to continue discussions on agenda items opened in plenary. The budget group met at lunchtime and in the evening. A Friends of the Chair Group on the enhanced observer status of the EU also met in the evening.
Plenary held initial discussions on: indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) systems; pending assessments; knowledge and data; policy support tools and methods; communication, stakeholder engagement and strategic partnerships; review of the platform; dates and venues of IPBES-6 and 7; and development of the second work programme.
Contact group I continued deliberations on ILK systems. Contact Group II continued discussing pending assessments and the scoping report for the assessment on sustainable use of wild biodiversity.
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Morning Plenary
The dais during morning plenary
IPBES Chair Robert Watson
Sebastián Restrepo, Colombia
Ana Laura Mello, Uruguay
José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala
Amita Prasad, India
Omer Muhammad Raja, Pakistan
El Khitma El Awad Mohammed, Sudan
Birthe Harriet Maria Ivars, Norway
Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Almuth Ostermeyer Schlöder, Germany
Delegate reading Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) during the morning plenary
Preston Hardison, Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
Prasert Trakansuphakon, FPP
Mette Gervin Damsgaard, Denmark
Fundisile Mketeni, South Africa
David Morgan, CITES Secretariat
Ala Rotaru, Republic of Moldova, and Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rashad Zabid Oglu Allahverdiyev, Azerbaijan, and Anton Mezhnev, the Russian Federation
Lilian Chua Swee Lian, Malaysia
Myoung-Ho Jin, Republic of Korea
Janine Van Vessem, Belgium
Agnès Hallosserie and Emmanuelle Matras Swynghedauw, France
Thomas Koetz, IPBES Secretariat
Afternoon Plenary
Robert Spaull, IPBES Secretariat
Oleg Borodin, Belarus
Carlos Alberto De Mattos Scaramuzza, Brazil
Ann Christin Maria Weibull, Sweden
Marco Barbieri, Convention on the Conservation of
Migratory Species (CMS)
Doug Beard, US
Stephanie Aktipis and Christine Dawson, US
Delegates applauding Colombia for hosting IPBES-6 in 2018
MoU Signing Ceremony between IPBES and Ramsar Convention
IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie and Maria Rivera, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat
Around the Venue
(Photo Courtesy of Dirk Schmeller)