Summary
On Friday 29 April 2016, in the morning, SBSTTA plenary continued discussion of a draft recommendation on the implications of the IPBES Assessment on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production. The contact group on synthetic biology met for the last time at lunchtime. Plenary then took up the remaining draft recommendations, meeting into the night.
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Hesiquio Benitez-Diaz, Mexico
Tone Solhaug, Norway
Alexander Shestakov, the Russian Federation