Summary
On Saturday, 17 December, Working Groups met in the morning to address outstanding items, including on the guidelines on prior informed consent and benefit-sharing from the use of traditional knowledge, and adopt their reports. An afternoon plenary addressed organizational matters and adopted decisions on all substantive agenda items. At 6 pm plenary was suspended to allow for the budget negotiations to conclude. It is expected to reconvene at 9:30 pm.
Update 00:20 am: Budget negotiations continue, plenary to resume at 1:30 am
Update 03:00 am: Plenary still awaits the outcome of budget negotiations
Update 04:15 am: Plenary still waiting
Update 04:50 am: Plenary resumes
Update 05:03 am: Plenary was gavelled to a close
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Working Group I
WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) at the conclusion of WG I deliberations
Anna Takombwa, Zimbabwe
Felipe Costa, Brazil
Federico Galloni, Argentina
Sepali De Silva, Dominica
Yousef Al-Hafedh, Saudi Arabia
Bongani Zipho Nkhabindze, Swaziland
Christian Prip, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), Norway
Mohamed Elmi Obsieh, Djibouti
Delegates from Switzerland consulting
L-R: Andy Stott and Holly Kelley-Weil, UK
L-R: Wadzi Goredema-Mandivenyi and Natalie Feltman, South Africa
L-R: Christine von Weizsäcker and Antje Lorch, ECOROPA
Working Group II
WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) at the conclusion of WG II deliberations
Albun William Banye Lemnyuy, Cameroon
Diego Pacheco Balanza, Bolivia
Maria Eugenia Choque Quispe, UN Permanent Forum
on
Indigenous
Issues (UNPFII)
Mitzi Gurgel Valente da Costa, Brazil
Delegates from Madagascar
Participants from WG II consulting
Asghar Mohammadi Fazel, Iran
Amita Prasad, India
Adem Bilgin, Turkey
L-R: WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) and WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark)
Plenary
CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias
Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, COP 13 President
Elizabeth Mrema, UNEP
David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary, CBD
Maria Luisa Angelica Del Rio Mispireta, Peru
Fumiko Nakao, Japan
Alexander Shestakov, the Russian Federation
Habib Gademi, Dominica
Rastislav Rybanič, EU
Moustafa Mokhtar Ali Fouda, Egypt
Lucy Mulenkei, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity, (IIFB)
José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala
Participants from the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN)
Cancun Children's Choir entertaining COP 13 participants
Delegates from Africa consulting
COP 13 Snapshots
CBD Secretariat staff
CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, with ENB/IISD Reporting Services team
CBD Secretariat with UN and local staff
Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, COP 13 President, enjoying the Mariachi entertainment while waiting
for
plenary
to
reconvene
Traditional Mexican Mariachi band
Delegates from Australia and New Zealand
Delegates from Mexico
Delegates from ETC Group, Econexus, Federation of German Scientists, and Friends of the Earth International