CBD ABS 9, Highlights for Tuesday, 23 March 2010, Santiago de Cali, Colombia

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Ninth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD ABS 9)

22-28 March 2010 | Santiago de Cali, Colombia

Highlights for Tuesday, 23 March 2010

View from the venue.

Delegates to the Ninth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) met in a morning plenary to agree on the process forward and establish four contact groups on specific issues. Contact group 3 on derivatives, benefit-sharing and access, and contact group 4 on traditional knowledge met in the morning and afternoon. Contact group 1 on issues related to scope and finance, and contact group 2 on compliance-related issues met in the evening.

Opening Plenary

L-R: Ngwang Sonam Sherpa, Nepal Indigenous Nationalities Preservation Association (NINPA), presented a traditional scarf and copper vessel to CBD Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf for the CBD Museum of Culture and Nature.

Mónica Rosell (Peru)

Timothy Hodges (Canada), ABS Working Group Co-Chair

Sem Shikongo (Namibia)

Participants during the plenary session.


Aghamati Mohamed (Mali)


L-R: Borje Alriksson and Åsa Norrman (Sweden) in consultations during plenary.

The dais congratulating the elected contact group chairs.

Contact Group 3 on Derivatives, Benefit-sharing and Access


Contact group 3 on derivatives, benefit-sharing and access.


L-R: Contact group Co-Chairs Cosima Hufler (Austria) and Pierre du Plessis (Namibia); and Markus Lehmann and Sonia Gautreau, CBD Secretariat

Tiffany McDonald (Australia)

L-R: Contact group Co-Chairs Cosima Hufler (Austria) and Pierre du Plessis (Namibia)

Vanida Khumnirdpetch (Thailand)

Contact Group 4 on Traditional Knowledge

Participants during contact group 4 on traditional knowledge.


Teresa Cruz (Cuba)


L-R: Working Group Co-Chair Timothy Hodges (Canada) and Nancy Hamzawi (Canada)


Delegates from Malaysia and Saudi Arabia discussing the text.


Delegates from the African Group comparing notes.


L-R: John Scott, CBD Secretariat; contact group Co-Chairs Damaso Luna (Mexico) and Tone Solhaug (Norway); and Sarat Gidda and Beatriz Gómez, CBD Secretariat


L-R: Tanya Gesse and Lucy Corbett, English translators, taking a momentary break during a "technical difficulty."

Contact Group 1 on Issues Related to Scope and Finance


Contact group 1 on issues related to scope and finance.


L-R: Contact group Co-Chairs José Luis Sutera (Argentina) and Johan Bodegård (Sweden); and Lyle Glowka, CBD Secretariat

Contact Group 2 on Compliance-related Issues

A view of the dais during contact group 2 on compliance-related issues.

L-R: Jiyun Kim and Weonhye Shin (Republic of Korea)

L-R: Contact group Co-Chairs Ricardo Torres (Colombia) and René Lefeber (the Netherlands)

Side Event on Non-commercial Benefits Resulting from Basic Research

Professor Erwin Beck, Universitat Bayreuth, speaking at the side event.

Around the Meeting


CBD Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf was interviewed by the local media.


L-R: Yana Dordina, International Development Fund for Indigenous Peoples of Russia, and Lucy Mulenkei (Kenya)


Daniel Serrano (Spain) perusing Monday’s ENB.


The New Zealand delegation poring over Monday’s ENB.


L-R: Tiffany McDonald (Australia) and Sigit Witjaksono, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia


L-R: Nancy Hamzawi and Daniel Daley (Canada)


L-R: Hortencia Hidalgo (Chile); Evelyn Acosta (Colombia); Ana Perez (Guatemala); Florina López (Panama); and Yolanda Teran (Ecuador)


National police on horseback outside of the venue.


Exhibition by Institución Educativa Madre Luna.


Exhibition by Institución Educativa El Encano.

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Related Links

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) resources
Meeting webpage
Provisional annotated agenda
Information Portal on the ABS negotiations
Global Biodiversity Outlook

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IISD RS coverage of CBD Article 8(j) WG 5, 15-19 October 2007, Montréal, Canada
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