Summary
On Tuesday, SBSTTA plenary addressed: mainstreaming biodiversity in the energy, mining, infrastructure, manufacturing, processing, and health sectors; the fifth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO 5); and new and emerging issues. Plenary also considered draft recommendations on: tools to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments for the implementation of the Strategic Biodiversity Plan; and scenarios for the 2050 vision for biodiversity. The Friends of the Chair group on wild meat reconvened in the evening. A Friends of the Chair group, facilitated by Alfred Oteng-Yeboah (Ghana), on new and emerging issues also met in the evening.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from 21st Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice and 10th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the CBD.The summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF.
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Signing of MoU between CBD and Futurearth
Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard, Global Hub Director, Futurearth
CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer
Biodiversity Mainstreaming
L-R: Joseph Appiott, Lisa Janishevski, Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat; SBSTTA 21
Chair Theresa Mundita Lim, the Philippines; and CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer
Francis Ogwal, Uganda, Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) Chair
Marle Aguilar Ponce, Honduras
Sujata Arora, India
Keiichi Nakazawa, Japan
Gloria Marina Apén Gonzalez, Guatemala
Andri Wahyono, Indonesia
Marina von Weissenberg, Finland
Vincent Fleming, UK
Lena Chan, Singapore
Gillian Guthrie, Jamaica
Shonisani Munzhedzi, South Africa
Justice-Te Amorangi Hetaraka, IIFB
Participants from the Global Youth Biodiversity Network
Global Biodiversity Outlook
L-R: Lisa Janishevski, Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat; Norbert Bärlocher, Switzerland; CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer; Robert Höft, Kieran Noonan Mooney, CBD Secretariat; CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper; and Johany Martinez, CBD Secretariat
Prudence Galega, Cameroon
Yasmina El Bahloul, Morocco
Boukar Attari, Niger
L-R: Tone Solhaug, Marie Haraldstad and Maja Stade Aarønæs, Norway
Sarah Douglass, Australia
Pedro Ivo Arriegas, Portugal
Ana María Hernández Salgar, Colombia
Adams Toussaint, Saint Lucia
L-R: Lisa Janishevski, Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat; CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper; and Norbert Bärlocher, Switzerland
SBSTTA 21 Snapshots
No snow day for SBSTTA 21 participants
L-R: CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer and Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard, Global Hub
Director, Future Earth
Delegates from Indonesia consulting
L-R: Elisa Morgera, IISD RS; Alexander Shestakov, WWF; and Daniela Diz, IISD RS
Delegates from New Zealand and South Africa consulting
Delegates from Kuwait