Fresh snow embellished the day, as delegates kept busy on the draft global biodiversity framework (GBF) and other items. The high-level segment continued, with speakers highlighting the urgency of addressing biodiversity loss.
Negotiations on the GBF progressed on its sections, including on responsibility and transparency, and communication, education, awareness, and uptake, as well as on target 17 on biotechnology. The contact group on digital sequence information (DSI) addressed a revised non-paper including two options: the first one establishing a process on the way forward, and the second one establishing a global benefit-sharing mechanism and a process for its operationalization. Delegates acknowledged the constructive work achieved and forwarded the non-paper to Working Group I for its consideration. The enhanced multidimensional approach to planning, monitoring, reporting, and review was the focus of deliberations in more than one group, highlighting the close interlinkages among agenda items.
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Working Group II focused on finalizing draft decisions on various agenda items, including on linkages of biodiversity with climate change, and with health. Delegates approved the draft decision on biodiversity and health, with only items related to DSI remaining outstanding. In the draft decision, the COP requests the completion of a draft global action plan to mainstream biodiversity and health linkages into national policies. Divergence of views persisted regarding reference to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities in the draft decision on biodiversity and climate change. In the evening, the Working Group decided to defer consideration of the item to a meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice to be held prior to COP 16.
Other groups focused on the financial mechanism, resource mobilization, and the monitoring framework of the GBF.
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High-level Segment
Audrey Azoulay, Director-General, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Mrinalini Rai, Director, CBD Women's Caucus
Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
Maria Ohisalo, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Finland
Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain
Ève Bazaiba Masudi, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Environment, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia
César Luena López, EU, and Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain
Ibrahim Munir, Minister of Environment, Libya
Martha Mphatso Kalemba, and Eisenhower Nduwa Mkaka, Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change, Malawi
Roselinda Soipan Tuya, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Kenya
Selected Images from the Negotiations
Huddle during Working Group II
Delegates searching for common ground
Delegates conferring during Working Group II
From L-R: Tristan Tyrrell, CBD Secretariat; WG II Chair Helena Brown, Antigua and Barbuda; and Wadzanayi Goredema-Mandivenyi, CBD Secretariat
Abderahmane Zino Izourar, Algeria
Laetitia Sieffert, CBD Secretariat
Vin Fleming, UK
Jessica María Amanzo Alcántara, Peru
Anne-Gabrielle Wüst Saucy, Switzerland
Scott Wilson, Canada
View of the dais during Working Group II
Marie Haraldstad, Norway, with Maya Hunt, New Zealand
Hlobisile Sikhosana, Eswatini
Basile van Havre, Canada
Esmail Karamidehkordi, Iran
From L-R: Basile van Havre, Canada; Francis Ogwal, Uganda; and Kieran Noonan-Mooney, CBD Secretariat
Hugo-Maria Schally, EU, with Yousef Al-Hafedh, Saudi Arabia
Pierre du Plessis, Namibia, with Hugo-Maria Schally, EU
From L-R: Joaquín Salzberg, Argentina; Kim van Seeters, the Netherlands; Won Seog Park, Republic of Korea; and Hugo-Maria Schally, EU
Martha Mphatso Kalemba, Malawi, and Pierre du Plessis, Namibia
Carlos Augusto Rollemberg de Resende, Brazil
Around the Venue
Music Performance by Aquakultre
