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On Friday, delegates to the second meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 2) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) finalized discussions on a conference room paper on biodiversity mainstreaming, and adopted 20 recommendations to the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD, the third meeting of the parties to the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) and the ninth meeting of the parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which will convene in November 2018 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. After adopting the report of the meeting and hearing closing statements, SBI 2 closed at 1:05 pm. ENB Summary and Analysis: The Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary and analysis of SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2 will be available on Monday, 16 July 2018 at http://enb.iisd.org/biodiv/sbstta22-sbi2/ IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis from SBSTTA 22 and SBI 2. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page L-R: Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat; SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda); and CBD Deputy Executive Secretary David Cooper Gillian Guthrie, Jamaica Han de Koeijer, EU Hidenobu Maekawa, Japan Natalhie Campos-Reales Pineda, Mexico L-R: Hamdallah Zedan and Moustafa Fouda, Egypt Rosemary Paterson, New Zealand Prudence Tangham Galega, Cameroon Edda Fernández Luiselli, Mexico Saleh Naghmush Al-Saadi, Oman Soonhwan Hwang, Republic of Korea Oleg Borodin, Belarus L-R: Yasir Ahmed Salih Khairy and El Khitma El Awad Mohammed Ahmed, Sudan Delegates from Indonesia consulting L-R: Hesiquio Benítez Díaz, Mexico, with CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer, drew Guyana as the first in the order of seating arrangements for COP 14 Elena Makeyeva, SBI 2 Rapporteur (Belarus) CBD Executive Secretary Cristiana Paşca Palmer Gwen Sisior, Palau Carolina Caceres, Canada Luciano Donadio, Argentina Stefan Leiner, EU Dilovarsho Dustov, Tajikistan Ramiro Batzin, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity Marthin Kaukaha Kasaona, Namibia A video message from Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda) gaveled the meeting to a close at 1:05 pm SBI 2 Snapshots Delegates from Austria Delegates from Africa Delegates from Central and Eastern Europe with SBI 2 Chair Francis Ogwal (Uganda) Delegates from the European Commission Delegates from Cambodia Delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean plus South Africa Delegates from Mexico Delegates from the Republic of Korea L-R: ENB SBI 2 team with Asterios Tsioumanis, Annelies van Gaalen, Natalie Jones, Elsa Tsioumani, Jennifer Bansard, and Franz Dejon