Resource mobilization was the talk of the day, following a walkout of developing countries from contact group deliberations late on Tuesday night. In the morning, Heads of delegation met to discuss the state of negotiations and identify the major stumbling blocks. Later in the day, developing countries returned to the negotiating table with a unified position.
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This position highlights the need to strengthen the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Convention’s financial mechanism, to make it fit for the purpose of implementing the commitments undertaken under the global biodiversity framework (GBF), as well as to establish (and replenish) a new global biodiversity fund. The need to close the financing gap and increase the level of financial resources was at the core of negotiations on target 19.1 of the GBF, as well as related discussions on resource mobilization and the GEF.
Meanwhile, negotiations continued on other agenda items. Contact groups worked on draft decisions exploring the interlinkages of biodiversity with health, and with climate change, showcasing the challenges of efforts to bridge different agendas in order to promote coherent policy action. The Friends of the Chair group on digital sequence information (DSI) continued work on a non-paper on options for solutions and a course of action on benefit-sharing from the use of DSI.
Deliberations continued in the evening on the GBF, synthetic biology, and resource mobilization, including GEF-related matters.
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Selected Images from the Negotiations
Erin Marchington, Canada
Vin Fleming, UK
Jessika Carvajal, Colombia
Ramon Arruda, Brazil
Haike Jan Haanstra, the Netherlands
Raghu Prasad, India
View of the room during a contact group on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework
Pierre du Plessis, Namibia
Patrick Luna, Brazil
Jorge Murillo, Colombia
Georgia Patt, UK
Rita El Zaghloul, Costa Rica
Anne Martinussen, Norway
Melesse Maryo, Ethiopia
Charles Makin, UK, with Franz Perrez, Switzerland
Esmail Karamidehkordi, Iran
Lucianara Andrade Fonseca, Brazil
From L-R: Basile van Havre, Canada; Francis Ogwal, Uganda; and Kieran Noonan-Mooney, CBD Secretariat
Sigurdur Thrainsson, Iceland
Daniel Mukubi Kikuni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
IPLCs and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Nataly Domicó, ICCA Consortium
Harol Rincón Ipuchima, Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin
Lhakpa Nuri Sherpa, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity
Tatiana Degai, Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North
Onel Masardule, Foundation for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge
Ramson Kamurshu, Indigenous Movements for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation
Elisa Canqui, Forests of the World
Edith Bastidas, Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network
Ruth Spencer, Antigua and Barbuda
Between Sessions
Oscar Soria, Avaaz
James Cromwell, actor and activist
Luiz Eduardo Andrade de Souza, Brazil, with Mario Galbert, Laotu Rural Ecological Culture Service Group
Yedla Umashankar and Raghu Prasad, India
Around the Venue
