Summary
The HLS met for its final day on Saturday, 3 December, with delegates convening in two parallel roundtable discussions on forests, and fisheries and aquaculture in the morning. In the afternoon, delegates met in a closing plenary to adopt the Cancún Declaration on Mainstreaming the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Well-Being. A number of countries also highlighted their enhanced actions towards fulfilling the Aichi Targets under the umbrella of the Cancún Coalitions and Commitments for Enhanced Implementation. HLS Chair Pacchiano gaveled the meeting to a close at 6:34 pm.
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High-Level Segment Round Table: Fishery
Participants at the High-Level Segment Roundtable on Fishery
José Calzada, Minister of Agriculture, Mexico and Jihyun Lee, CBD Secretariat
Rosa Francisca Zavala Correa, General Director of Sustainable
Fishery, Peru
Lubomír Hladík, Ambassador to Mexico, Czech Republic
Yusra Khan, Ambassador to Mexico, Indonesia
Dominic Leblanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and Coast Guard, Canada
Hiromichi Matsushima, Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, Japan
Abdullah Naseer, Senior Policy Executive, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Maldives
Alain De Comarmond, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Seychelles
Moustafa Fouda, Minister Advisor on Biodiversity, Egypt
High-Level Segment Round Table: Forestry
Jorge Rescala, General Director, National Forest Commission, Mexico, opened the roundtable on forestry
Jorge Rescala, General Director, National Forest Commission, Mexico
José Sarney Filho, Minister of Environment, Brazil
Gemedo Dalle, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ethiopia
Delegates from Nepal, L-R: Shankar Bandari, Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation and Krishna Chandra
Paudel, Secretary, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
Elsa Galarza Contreras, Minister of Environment, Peru
Vincent Biruta, Minister of Natural Resources, Rwanda
Lena Chan, National Biodiversity Centre, Singapore
Delegates from Mauritania, L-R: Cheikh Sidi Mohamed, Chargé de Mission, and Mady Ould
Taleb,
Secretary-General, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Inger Andersen, Director-General, IUCN
Alexander Fedotov, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Russian Federation
L-R: Jean Kapata, Minister for Lands, Territory, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Zambia;
and Oppah Muchinguri, Minister of Environment, Water and Climate, Zimbabwe
L-R: Alexander Buck, International Union of Forest Research Organization (IUFRO)
and Takeshi Goto, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
Closing Plenary
High-Level Segment participants
View of the closing plenary of the High-Level Segment
L-R: Amy Fraenkel, CBD Secretariat; Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico; Miguel Ruíz Cabañas, Vice-Minister of
Multilateral
Affairs and Human Rights,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico; and Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, CBD
Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa
Sydney Alexander Samuels Milson, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Guatemala
Fernando Coimbra, Ambassador, Head of the Office for International Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil
Elsa Nickel, Director-General of Protection and Sustainable Use
of Nature, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
COP13 Snapshots
Delegates from Cameroon
Leticia Rubello, with Damaso Luna, Viridiana González Uribe,
and Giselle
Fernández Ludlow, Mexico