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Third session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-3)

12-17 January 2015 | Bonn, Germany

Daily Web Coverage

Intro | 12 Jan | 13 Jan | 14 Jan | 15 Jan | 16 Jan

Highlights for Saturday, 17 January 2015

IPBES-3 convened on Saturday, 17 January 2015, for its final day of deliberations. During the stock-taking plenary in the morning, Co-Chairs of the contact groups on work programme and rules of procedure reported that they had completed their work. The contact groups on the budget and communications and stakeholder engagement strategies met straight after plenary to conclude their work.

During the closing plenary in the afternoon, delegates adopted decisions on the work programme, including scoping documents for assessments; rules of procedure, including conflict of interest; the budget; and the communications and stakeholder engagement strategies. Following closing statements, Chair Zakri closed the meeting at 7:12 pm.

IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri gavels the meeting to a close at 7:12 pm.

IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie, congratulates IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid
Zakri, at the conclusion of the meeting.

PLENARY

L-R: Leonel Sierralta, Chile, Co-Chair of the contact group on budget; Mark Lonsdale, Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP)
member, Australia; IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie; IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri;
Nalini Sharma, IPBES Secretariat; and Masa Nagai, UNEP

Leonel Sierralta, Chile, Co-Chair of the contact group on
budget

Ivar Baste, Norway, Co-Chair of the contact group on the
work programme

Robert Watson, UK, Co-Chair of the contact group on
rules of procedure

Fundisile Mketeni, South Africa, Co-Chair of the contact
group on communications and stakeholder engagement
strategies

Delegates from Indonesia consulting during the session.

Maka Bitsadze, Georgia

Rahul Chand, Fiji

Suzi Heaton, Australia

Delegates from the US consulting during the session.

Habib Gademi, Chad

Gabriele Obermayr, Austria

Wilson Rojas, Ecuador

L-R: Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Ghana, Co-Chair of the contact group on the work programme; Malta
Qwathekana, South Africa; Naohisa Okuda, Japan; and Abdul Munaf Qaimkhani, Pakistan

Moustafa Ali Fouda, MEP member, Egypt

Isabel Sousa Pinto, Portugal

Augustine Ngoliele, Congo

L-R: Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rapporteur; Fundisile Mketeni, South Africa, Co-Chair of the contact
group on communications and stakeholder engagement strategies; Carlos Alfredo Joly, MEP member, Brazil; IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie; IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri; Thomas Koetz, IPBES Secretariat; Ivar Baste, Norway, Co-Chair
of the contact group on the work programme; Robert Watson, UK, Co-Chair of the contact group on rules of procedure; and
Masa Nagai, UNEP

Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rapporteur

IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie

CONTACT GROUPS

View of the contact group on communication and stakeholder engagement strategies.

Co-Chair Fundisile Mketeni, South Africa

View of the contact group on budget.

L-R: Thomas Koetz, IPBES Secretariat; IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie; Co-Chairs of
the contact group on budget Leonel Sierralta, Chile, and Jay Ram Adhikari, Nepal

IPBES-3 SNAPSHOTS

Incoming and outgoing MEP members with IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie

IPBES-3 delegates from Eastern Europe and Pakistan

L-R: IPBES-3 delegates from Trinidad and Tobago; Barbados; Grenada; Antigua and Barbuda; Dominica;
and Saint Lucia

L-R: Yourk Sothearith, Cambodia; Tinh Tran Thi Kim, Viet
Nam; and Somaly Chan, Cambodia

L-R: Oleg Shamanov, Russian Federation; Natalya Minchenko,
Belarus; and Victoria Elias, Russian Federation

L-R: Mark Lonsdale, MEP member, Australia, and Christine Dawson, US

L-R: Emmanuel Bayani Ngoyi, Gabon, and Mike Ipanga Mwaku, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Delegates from India in conversation with Andrew Bignell, New Zealand, Chair of the
Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD).

L-R: Ivar Baste, Norway, Co-Chair of the contact group on the work programme and
IPBES Chair Abdul Hamid Zakri

Specific funding for coverage of this session has been provided by the IPBES Secretariat

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