Summary
On Thursday, WG I addressed: cooperation with other conventions and organizations; a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol; and socioeconomic considerations, liability and redress, risk assessment and risk management, and unintentional transboundary movement of LMOs under the Cartagena Protocol. WG II approved without, or with minor discussion, conference room papers (CRPs) on sustainable wildlife management, UNPFII recommendations and climate-related geo-engineering. WG II further addressed marine debris and underwater noise, marine spatial planning, biodiversity in cold-water areas and pollinators.
The budget group met in the morning. Contact groups on resource mobilization, capacity building, the financial mechanism, synthetic biology and Article 8(j) met throughout the day.
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Working Group I
Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) presiding over WG I
Micheline Dorcé Donnacien, IIFB
Pedro Rocha, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation
on Agriculture (IICA)
Cuauhtémoc Ochoa Fernández, Mexico
Elena Makeyeva, Belarus
Leo Maier, EU
Neimatullo Safarov, Tajikistan
Véronique Amari, Côte d'Ivoire
Yousef Saleh Al-Hafedh, Saudi Arabia
Goote Voigt-Hanssen, Norway
Christine Echookit Akello, Uganda
Letchumanan Ramatha, Malaysia
Claudio Chiarolla, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR)
Working Group II
L-R: Robert Höft, CBD Secretariat and WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa)
Reneé Sauvé, Canada
Alain De Comarmond, Seychelles
Adam van Opzeeland, New Zealand
Ana María Hernández Salgar, Colombia
Karma Nyedrup, Bhutan
Esther Shushu Makwaia, Tanzania
Akram Eissa Darwich, IFAW
L-R: Augusto Manuel Pinto and Marcal Gusmao, Timor-Leste
L-R: Marco Vinicio Araya, Pamela Castillo, and Zdenka Piskulich, Costa Rica
L-R: Eleni Tokaduadua, Alisi Rabukawaqa,
and Alfred Ralifo, Fiji
L-R: Victor Canton, Anna Laura Mello, and Alejandro Nario Carvalho, Uruguay
L-R: Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat, in conversation with Umair Shahid, Pakistan
L-R: Daniela Diz, IISD RS, discussing marine issues with Alexander Shestakov, Russian Federation
Contact Groups
Contact group on traditional knowledge
COP 13 participants waiting to enter the contact group on synthetic biology
COP 13 Snapshots
L-R: Ailis Rego, Charles Gbedemah, Michele Rattray, CBD Secretariat,
waiting for the
Budget
Committee to start its session
with
CBD Executive Secretary
Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias
Youth participants consulting
Nader Ibrahim, CBD Secretariat, with youngest COP 13 participant
Theodore Sinatra, Mexico
L-R: Daniela Hernández Orozco, Daniel Goycochea Rodríguez,
and Alejandra Guzman Olguín, Mexico