Summary
On Friday, 16 December, delegates addressed draft decisions on several agenda items, including: unintentional transboundary movements, transit, risk assessment and management of living modified organisms (LMOs), and assessment and review under the Cartagena Protocol; capacity building under the Convention and the Protocols; the financial mechanism; cooperation with other conventions; mainstreaming; synthetic biology; guidelines on prior informed consent (PIC) and benefit-sharing under Article 8(j); and ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs). Following agreement in the Friends of the Chair group, two draft decisions were approved on establishing a process for the consideration of digital sequence information on genetic resources in the next biennium under the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol. A contact group on the financial mechanism and the budget group met throughout the day. WG deliberations and informal consultations continued into the night.
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Working Group I
WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark)
Jimena Nieto Carrasco, Colombia
Séhounkpindo Gaston Akouehou, Benin
Behzad Ghareyazie, Iran
Alexis Ardrouin, Haiti
Delegates from WG I consulting
L-R: Endah Ambarwati, Indonesia; Amita Prasad, India; Ágnes Fejes and Zsuzsanna Ujj, Hungary
Delegates from Brazil
L-R: Andres Factos and Angel Onofa, Ecuador
L-R: Indra Prasad Sapkota and Bijaya Raj Paudyal, Nepal
L-R: Rajeyah Binkulaib and Nahla Noobi, United Arab Emirates
Delegates from Nicaragua consulting
Letchumanan Ramatha, Malaysia
Kongit Haile-Gabriel, Dominica
Akkharath Inthavy, Lao Democratic Republic
CBD Secretariat staff
Working Group II
L-R: WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) and Lisa Janishevski, CBD Secretariat
Damaso Luna, Mexico
Itai Hilary Tendaupenyu, Zimbabwe
Anna Trakhtenbrot, Israel
Darío Luque, Panama
Patrick Leon Pedia, Côte d'Ivoire
Gabriele Obermayr, Austria
Suleiman Al Akhzami, Oman
Umair Shahid, Pakistan
Joe Horokou, Solomon Islands
Jiří Mach, Czech Republic
L-R: Pedro Ivo Arriegas, and Marco Rebello, Portugal
Conference room attendants
Delegates from Uganda and Mexico consulting
Representatives of Colombia, Chile and Iran consulting
COP 13 Snapshots
Participants from indigenous and local communities
Norma Munguia and Damaso Luna, Mexico
Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA (far left), with delegates from Guatemala and the Philippines
Delegates from the EU
Hayria Mohamed, Comoros
Participants from the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN)