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IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily web coverage, daily reports, and a joint summary and analysis of both the Article 8(j)-8 and SBSTTA-17 meeting. To download our reports, click the HTML or PDF icons below.


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Eighth meeting of the Ad-Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) (traditional knowledge) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Seventeenth meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA)

7-11 and 14-18 October 2013
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) headquarters, Montreal, Canada

Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)

Intro - 7 October - 8 October - 9 October - 10 October - 11 October
14 October - 15 October - 16 October - 17 October - 18 October

Highlights for Wednesday, 16 October 2013

On Wednesday, SBSTTA 17 delegates met in plenary throughout the day to hear a report on Tuesday evening’s informal session and engage in panel discussions, followed by delivery of statements, on: Strategic Goal D on enhancing the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosystem services, and on ecosystem restoration; new and emerging issues; preparations of the fourth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-4); and the CBD contribution to the intersessional process of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). In the evening, two Friends of the Chair groups convened.

Place des Arts, Montreal's premiere performing arts center

L-R: Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary; Panel Chair Brigitte Baptiste,
Colombia; David Cooper, CBD Secretariat; and Simone Schiele, CBD Secretariat

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Strategic Goal D on enhancing the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosytem services

Panel Chair Brigitte Baptiste, Colombia

Ben Ten Brink, the Netherlands

Panel on Strategic Goal D on enhancing the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosytem services

Maria Yolanda Terán Maigua, Andes
Chinchasuyo

Xu Jing, China

Malta Qwathekana, South Africa

Delegates from South Africa

Natalya Minchenko, Belarus

Maria Alexandra Moreira Lopez, Bolivia

Judy West, Australia

Delegates from the Asia-Pacific group consulting

Santiago Obispo, Amazon Cooperation
Network

Genene Tefera Belihu, Ethiopia

Jorge Ahumada, Conservation International

Delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean consulting

Nick Davidson, Ramsar Convention

Gwendalyn Sisior, Palau

Rodrigo Gonzalez Videla, Argentina

Delegates from the Philippines and Portugal

Strategic Goal D

L-R: Robert Höft, CBD Secretariat; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary; Panel Chair Jean-Patrick Le
Duc, France; David Cooper, CBD Secretariat; and Simone Schiele, CBD Secretariat

Panel Chair Jean-Patrick Le Duc, France

Paul Leadley, University of Paris, presented the
Scenarios Assessment for the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4

Jerry Harrison, UNEP-WCMC

Robert Lamb, UNEP

Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard,
DIVERSITAS

Jan Plesnik, Czech Republic

Ali Al-Lami, Iraq

Olivier Langrand, Island Conservation

Estebancio Castro Diaz, International
Indian Treaty Council

Flora Mpanju, African Regional
Intellectual Property Organization

Margaret Oduk, UNEP-DELC

Katherine Secoy, Zoological Society of
London, UK

L-R: Linda Collette and Damiano Luchetti, UN Food and Agriculture Organization

L-R: Risa Smith, Canada; Alexander Shestakov, Russian Federation; and Andrew Bignell, New
Zealand

S.P.S. Parihar, India

Guenter Mitlacher, WWF

Wataru Suzuki, UN University Institute
of Advanced Studies

L-R: Junku Shimura, CBD Secretariat; Shyama Narayan Pagad, IUCN - Invasive Species Specialist
Group (ISSG); Piero Genovesi, IUCN-ISSG; Jane Smart, IUCN; Donald Hobern, GBIF; Samy Gaiji,
GBIF; and Chris Lyal, Natural History Museum, UK

Delegates from the Republic of Korea COP 12 preparatory task force

Delegates from Colombia

Delegates from Brazil

L-R: Jacqueline Grekin, Nader Ibrahim and Cristina Romanelli, CBD Secretariat

Related Links

Article 8(j) WG8 resources

Meeting website and documents

Meeting revised annotated agenda

SBSTTA 17 resources

Meeting website and documents

Meeting annotated agenda

IISD RS resources

IISD RS coverage of the Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the CBD, 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

IISD RS coverage of the Selected Side Events at CBD COP 11, 8-19 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

IISD RS coverage of SBSTTA 16, 30 April - 5 May 2012, ICAO headquarters, Montreal, Canada

IISD RS coverage of SBSTTA 15, 7-11 November 2011, Montréal, Canada

IISD RS coverage of Article 8(j) WG 7, 31 October - 4 November 2011, Montréal, Canada (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF)

IISD RS coverage of Article 8(j) WG 6, 2-6 November 2009, Montreal, Canada

IISD RS archive of meetings on the Commission on Genetic Resources (CGRFA) and ITPGRFA

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