Summary
On Thursday morning, the Working Group on Article 8(j) considered: resource mobilization; progress towards Aichi Target 18 (traditional knowledge), implementation of the customary sustainable use action plan, and integration of Article 8(j) in the work of the CBD and its Protocols; finalization of tasks 7, 10 and 12 under the Article 8(j) work programme; recommendations from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII); and a draft recommendation on the glossary. In the evening, the Article 8(j) Working Group’s contact group on the draft guidelines on the repatriation of traditional knowledge convened.
In the afternoon, SBSTTA plenary addressed a draft recommendation on mainstreaming biodiversity and adopted all recommendations, closing at 6:29 pm.
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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Article 8(j) Working Group
Cuauhtémoc Ochoa, Mexico, on behalf of COP 13 Presidency
John Scott, CBD Secretariat
Cuauhtémoc Ochoa, Mexico, consulting with the CBD Secretariat
Leelo Kukk, EU
Justice-Te Amorangi Hetaraka, Te Kopu and Native XP
Xu Jing, China
Laura Bermudez, Colombia
Tonio Sadik, Canada
Mrinalini Rai, Global Forest Coalition
Chrissy Grant, IIFB
Penninah Zaninka, IIFB
Helen Tunnah, New Zealand
Fernando Nogales, Ecuador
Begoña Venero Aguirre, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA
Luciano Donadio, Argentina
L-R: Lucy Mulenkei, Indigenous Information Network, and Yolanda Teran Maigua, Indigenous Women's Network on Biodiversity from Latin America and the Caribbean
SBSTTA 21 Consideration of Conference Room Papers (CRPs)
L-R: Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat; SBSTTA 21
Chair Theresa Mundita Lim, the Philippines; and CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper
Georgina Catacora-Vargas, Bolivia
Hesiquio Diaz, Mexico
L-R: Lena Chan and Jeremy Woon Ren Wei, Singapore
Anne Theo Seinen, EU
Ines Verleye, Belgium
Marcelo Böhlke, Brazil
Andrew Stott, UK
Elizabeth Cardenas Cappelletti, Peru
Sergiy Gubar, Ukraine
Malta Qwathekana, South Africa
Hamdallah Zedan, Egypt
CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer
SBSTTA 21
Chair Theresa Mundita Lim, the Philippines, gaveled the meeting to a close at 6:29 pm
SBSTTA 21 Snapshots
L-R: Jane Smart and Cyrie Sendashonga, IUCN
L-R: Stephanie Aktipis, Barbara De Rosa-Joynt, and Emily Argo, US
L-R: Nicole Schabus, IISD RS, with Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA
SBSTTA 21
Chair Theresa Mundita Lim, the Philippines, searching for
biodiversity superheroes