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COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt, with Mirjam de Koning, Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust, winner of the Pathfinder Award On Saturday morning, the opening plenary of the main proceedings of the UN Biodiversity Conference heard from the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and high-level officials. The afternoon plenary addressed organizational matters, and heard reports and opening statements. The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi noted ancient Egypt’s awareness of ecosystems and the dedication of the pharaohs to nature, and stressed Egypt’s constitutional protection for nature and natural resources. Pointing out that the CBD did not manage to fully mobilize the international community to effectively preserve biodiversity due to lack of mainstreaming, he called for integration of CBD objectives across all sectors. For more details on the day’s events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB).  IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily reports, daily web coverage, and a summary and analysis from the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page Egyptian school children perform for COP 14 participants showing the importance of biodiversity and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) José Octavio Tripp Villanueva, Ambassador of Mexico to Egypt, on behalf of COP 13 Presidency COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt View of the spill over room during the opening session of COP 14 Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary Abdel Fattah Khalil el-Sisi, President of Egypt A video message by Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the UN General Assembly L-R: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt; and Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary A video message by Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General Corli Pretorius, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) Diego Ignacio Moreno, Argentina, for GRULAC Niall O'Dea, Canada Gabriele Obermayr, Austria Elena Makeyeva, Belarus Video by National Geographic Coletha Ruhamya, Rwanda Tatiana Degai, Indigenous Women's Network on Biodiversity Gadir Lavadenz, CBD Alliance Hoda Yacoub, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) L-R: Sanda Anjara Rakotomalala and Adina Arth, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) Clare Hamilton, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Kaspar Sollberger, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing Hamdallah Zedan, Egypt 2018 Midori Prize winners CBD National Focal Point for Cameroon booth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity booth Egyptian media interviewing COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt  

On Thursday, SBI 2 delegates met in plenary in the morning, afternoon, and evening, and addressed conference room papers (CRPs) on: mainstreaming of biodiversity within and across sectors and other strategic actions to enhance implementation; resource mobilization, including elements of methodological guidance for identifying, monitoring and assessing the contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to the achievement of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and the Aichi Targets, and taking the voluntary guidelines on safeguards in biodiversity financing mechanisms into account when selecting, designing and implementing financing mechanisms and when developing instrument-specific safeguards; global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS); capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation and technology transfer; national reporting, and assessment and review, under the Convention and its Protocols; the trust fund for facilitating the participation of parties in the Convention process; mechanisms to facilitate review of implementation; integration of Article 8(j) and provisions related to IPLCs in the work of the Convention and its Protocols; review of the effectiveness of processes under the Convention and its Protocols; monitoring and reporting under Article 33 of the Biosafety Protocol; national reporting under the Convention and its Protocols; specialized international ABS instruments in the context of Article 4(4) of the Nagoya Protocol; review of implementation of the financial mechanism; proposals for a comprehensive and participatory process for the preparation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework; and cooperation with other conventions, international organizations and partnerships. For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis from SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page L-R: Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat; SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda); and Amy Ann Fraenkel, CBD Secretariat SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda) Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer L-R: Hesiquio Benítez Díaz and Edda Fernández Luiselli, Mexico Laure Ledoux, EU Shirin Karryeva, Turkmenistan Nicky Black, International Council on Mining and Metals Elizabeth Munro, Cook Islands Luciano Donadio, Argentina Rosemary Paterson, New Zealand Jorge Murillo, Colombia José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala Kelly Torck, Canada Larbi Sbaï, Morocco Gaute Voigt-Hanssen, Norway Stephanie Aktipis, US Edison Mayorga, Venezuela Parveen Ejaz, Pakistan Marci Gompers-Small, Suriname Ana Paula Francisco, Mozambique L-R: Patrick Wargute and Samuel Mutuku Kasiki, Kenya L-R: Victor Alvarado, Hesiquio Benítez Díaz and Mariana Bellot Rojas, Mexico CBD Secretariat staff advising SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda) Delegates from South Africa consulting SBI 2 Snapshots Delegates from ASEAN countries with participants from the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity L-R: Erie Tamale, CBD Secretariat; and SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda) L-R: Alissa Takesy, Federated States of Micronesia; and Joan Yang, Palau Delegates from Small Island Developing States L-R: Sol Guerrero Ortiz and Natalhie Campos-Reales Pineda, Mexico Participants from the Philippines and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

The second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opened on Monday, following the 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 22) and a Sunday seminar on transformational change for the biodiversity agenda. Delegates heard opening remarks, addressed organizational matters, and engaged in discussions on: review of progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan 2011-2020; assessment and review of the effectiveness of the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS); and mainstreaming of biodiversity within and across sectors, and other strategic actions to enhance implementation. In the evening, an opening reception was held on the theme “Indigenous peoples, local communities and the future of biodiversity.” For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis from SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page L-R: Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation; Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat; SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda); Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico; CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer; and CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer Jiří Hlaváček, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) SBI 2 observed a moment of silence in memory of Olivier de Munck, CBD Secretariat SBI 2 keynote speaker, Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation View of a presentation by Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation Belal Alhayek, Syrian Arab Republic Eugenia Arguedas Montezuma, Costa Rica Jesus Guerra Bell, Cuba Soonhwan Hwang, Republic of Korea Prudence Tangham Galega, Cameroon Wolfram Tertschnig, Austria, for the EU Wilson Rojas, Ecuador Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Shoni Munhedzi, South Africa Fionna Cumming, New Zealand Arora Sujata, India Crisanta Marlene Rodriguez, the Philippines Jing Xin, China View of a presentation on mainstreaming biodiversity by UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and African Wildlife Foundation Neville Ash, UNEP-WCMC Jimmiel Mandima, African Wildlife Foundation SBI 2 Snapshots L-R: Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation; and CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer Roberta Bondar, Canada's first female astronaut, and founder, Roberta Bondar Foundation, with CBD Secretariat, and SBSTTA 22 Chair Mundita Lim Delegates from Small Island Developing States consulting L-R: CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer and Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) geared towards enhancing cooperation between the two Secretariats. SBSTTA 22 Chair Mundita Lim (center) with participants from the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity L-R: Lahcene Rekik, Lisa Pedicelli, and Florence Blot, CBD Secretariat

The 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 22) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) concluded its work Saturday. In the morning, parties considered the remaining conference room papers (CRPs) on: •       Risk assessment and risk management of living modified organisms; •       Marine and coastal biodiversity; and •       Digital sequence information. In the afternoon, SBSTTA 22 adopted all ten draft recommendations to forward to the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in November 2018. After adopting the report of the meeting and hearing closing statements, SBSTTA 22 closed at 6:43 pm. For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis from SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page L-R: Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; SBSTTA 22 Chair Theresa Mundita Lim; CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper; Jacqueline Grekin, CBD Secretariat; and Jihyun Lee, CBD Secretariat Yuri Kato, Japan Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia Gillian Guthrie, Jamaica Anne Teller, EU L-R: Marie-May Muzungaile, Seychelles; and Snežana Prokić, Serbia R.H.M.P. Abeykoon, Sri Lanka Jesse Verhalle, Belgium Parveen Ejaz, Pakistan Janos Hennicke, Germany Liu Ying, China Youngdawng Moh, Republic of Korea Adem Bilgin, Turkey Prudence Tangham Galega, Cameroon Wenxuan Yu, China University of Political Science and Law Leo Fidjeland, University of the Arts London John Clorley, UK François Lengrand, France Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA Mette Gervin Damsgaard, Denmark Tim Strabala, New Zealand Moustafa Fouda, Egypt L-R: Hesiquio Benítez Díaz and Edda Fernández Luiselli, Mexico L-R: CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer; Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; SBSTTA 22 Chair Theresa Mundita Lim; and CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer Samuel Dieme, SBSTTA 22 Rapporteur Gabriele Obermayr, Austria for the EU Ilham Atho Mohamed, Maldives Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Hesiquio Benítez Díaz, Mexico L-R: Hamdallah Zedan and Moustafa Fouda, Egypt Scott Wilson, Canada Chrissy Grant, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity Li Ching Lim, Third World Network Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat SBSTTA 22 Chair Theresa Mundita Lim gaveled the meeting to a close at 6:43 pm L-R: Samuel Dieme, SBSTTA 22 Rapporteur; Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer; SBSTTA 22 Chair Theresa Mundita Lim; and CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper SBSTTA 22 Snapshots Participants taking a break watching the 2018 World Cup L-R: Li Ching Lim, Third World Network; Edward Hammond, Third World Network; Dana Perls, Friends of the Earth; Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group; Jim Thomas, ETC Group; and Ricarda Steinbrecher, Federation of German Scientists L-R: Young-Hyo Chang and Soo Hyo Lee, Republic of Korea SBSTTA 22 Chair Theresa Mundita Lim with participants from the Philippines and ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity L-R: Henry Philippe Ibañez de Novion and Luciana Melchert, Brazil L-R: Hesiquio Benítez Díaz, Mexico; and Hendrik Segers, Belgium L-R: Edison Mayorga, Venezuela; Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia; and Jesus Guerra Bell, Cuba Delegates from Austria Delegates from Small Island Developing States Delegates from Mexico L-R: ENB SBSTTA 22 team with Asterios Tsioumanis, Pam Chasek, Annelies van Gaalen, Jennifer Bansard, Natalie Jones, and Franz Dejon