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Second session of the Plenary of the
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-2)

9-14 December 2013 | Antalya, Turkey

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Intro - 9 December - 10 December - 11 December - 12 December

13 December - 14 December

Highlights for Friday, 13 December 2013

On Friday, 13 December 2013, IPBES-2 met in contact groups during the day and in Plenary in the evening. In the contact groups, delegates addressed the programme of work, including the terms of reference (ToR) for the task forces; the budget; and rules and procedures. In the evening Plenary, delegates adopted decisions on the work programme’s conceptual framework and on financial and budgetary arrangements. It was announced that Anne Larigauderie was appointed IPBES Executive Secretary.

L-R: IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri in discussion with Robert Watson, Bureau member and contact group Co-Chair on rules and procedure

CONTACT GROUPS

L-R: Carlos Alfredo Joly, Brazil, Co-Chair of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP); Alfred
cOteng- Yeboah, Bureau member and contact group Co-Chair on the work programme; Ivar
Baste, Bureau member and contact group Co-Chair on the work programme; and Paul Leadley,
MEP member

Contact group on the work programme discussing the terms of reference for the task forces on capacity building,
knowledge and data, and indigenous and local knowledge.

View of the contact group on rules and procedures in session

L-R: Masa Nagai, UNEP; Robert Watson, Bureau member and contact group Co-Chair on rules and procedures; Leonel Sierralta, Bureau member and contact group Co-Chair on rules and procedures; MEP Co-Chair Mark Lonsdale; and Neville Ash, UNEP

Juana Mariño, Colombia (center), consulting with contact group
Co-Chairs Watson and Sierralta

Adem Bilgin, Bureau member, in discussion with contact group
Co-Chairs Watson and Sierralta

Contact group Co-Chairs Sierralta and Watson in discussion with Adem Bilgin, Bureau member, and
Christine Dawson, US

Kangayatkarasu Nagulendran, Malaysia, in discussion with delegates from Thailand

Delegates from China consulting

Edgar Selvin Pérez Pérez, MEP member, consulting with
contact group Co-Chair Watson

Delegates from Lithuania consulting

PLENARY

L-R: IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri on screen with Neville Ash, UNEP

French ecologist Anne Larigauderie is appointed as IPBES Executive Secretary

Patrick Léon Pedia, Côte d'Ivoire

Isabel Sousa Pinto, Portugal

Victor Canton, Uruguay

L-R: Joji Cariño, Forest Peoples Programme, and Maria Elena Regpala, Tebtebba Foundation

Yousef Saleh Al-Hafedh, MEP member

Anastasia Gordon, Trinidad and Tobago

Gaston Akouehou, Benin

L-R: Trine Hay Setsaas and Tone Solhaug, Norway

L-R: Neville Ash, UNEP, in discussion with Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation, and Adem Bilgin, Bureau
member

IPBES SNAPSHOTS

Delegates from Turkey, Germany, Lithuania and the UK at the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National
Parks of Turkey booth

L-R: Frederick Castell, FAO; Charles McNeill, UNDP; Elizabeth Mrema, UNEP; and Solene
Le Doze-Turvill, UNEP

L-R: Eugenia Recio and Kate Louw, IISD Reporting Services/ENB, in conversation with IPBES
Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri

L-R: MEP Co-Chair Mark Lonsdale; Sebsebe Demissew, MEP member; and Gemedo Dalle Tussie,
Ethiopia

Turkish exhibit on carpets and weaving. Photo by Claudia Friedrich

Turkish exhibit on local handicrafts

Turkish exhibition on nature and livelihoods

IPBES participant learning how to weave a traditional Turkish carpet

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Second session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-2)

Second session of the Plenary of the
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-2)