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On Saturday, 17 December, Working Groups met in the morning to address outstanding items, including on the guidelines on prior informed consent and benefit-sharing from the use of traditional knowledge, and adopt their reports. An afternoon plenary addressed organizational matters and adopted decisions on all substantive agenda items. At 6 pm plenary was suspended to allow for the budget negotiations to conclude. It is expected to reconvene at 9:30 pm. Update 00:20 am: Budget negotiations continue, plenary to resume at 1:30 am Update 03:00 am: Plenary still awaits the outcome of budget negotiations Update 04:15 am: Plenary still waiting Update 04:50 am: Plenary resumes Update 05:03 am: Plenary was gavelled to a close IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the UN Biodiversity Conference. The summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF. Photos by IISD/ENB | Francis Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Working Group I WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) at the conclusion of WG I deliberations Anna Takombwa, Zimbabwe Felipe Costa, Brazil Federico Galloni, Argentina Sepali De Silva, Dominica Yousef Al-Hafedh, Saudi Arabia Bongani Zipho Nkhabindze, Swaziland Christian Prip, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), Norway Mohamed Elmi Obsieh, Djibouti Delegates from Switzerland consulting L-R: Andy Stott and Holly Kelley-Weil, UK L-R: Wadzi Goredema-Mandivenyi and Natalie Feltman, South Africa L-R: Christine von Weizsäcker and Antje Lorch, ECOROPA Working Group II WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) at the conclusion of WG II deliberations Albun William Banye Lemnyuy, Cameroon Diego Pacheco Balanza, Bolivia Maria Eugenia Choque Quispe, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Mitzi Gurgel Valente da Costa, Brazil Delegates from Madagascar Participants from WG II consulting Asghar Mohammadi Fazel, Iran Amita Prasad, India Adem Bilgin, Turkey L-R: WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) and WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) Plenary CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, COP 13 President Elizabeth Mrema, UNEP David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary, CBD Maria Luisa Angelica Del Rio Mispireta, Peru Fumiko Nakao, Japan Alexander Shestakov, the Russian Federation Habib Gademi, Dominica Rastislav Rybanič, EU Moustafa Mokhtar Ali Fouda, Egypt Lucy Mulenkei, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity, (IIFB) José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala Participants from the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) Cancun Children's Choir entertaining COP 13 participants Delegates from Africa consulting COP 13 Snapshots CBD Secretariat staff CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, with ENB/IISD Reporting Services team CBD Secretariat with UN and local staff Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, COP 13 President, enjoying the Mariachi entertainment while waiting for plenary to reconvene Traditional Mexican Mariachi band Delegates from Australia and New Zealand Delegates from Mexico Delegates from ETC Group, Econexus, Federation of German Scientists, and Friends of the Earth International

On Friday, 16 December, delegates addressed draft decisions on several agenda items, including: unintentional transboundary movements, transit, risk assessment and management of living modified organisms (LMOs), and assessment and review under the Cartagena Protocol; capacity building under the Convention and the Protocols; the financial mechanism; cooperation with other conventions; mainstreaming; synthetic biology; guidelines on prior informed consent (PIC) and benefit-sharing under Article 8(j); and ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs). Following agreement in the Friends of the Chair group, two draft decisions were approved on establishing a process for the consideration of digital sequence information on genetic resources in the next biennium under the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol. A contact group on the financial mechanism and the budget group met throughout the day. WG deliberations and informal consultations continued into the night. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the UN Biodiversity Conference. The summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF. Photos by IISD/ENB | Francis Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Working Group I WG I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) Jimena Nieto Carrasco, Colombia Séhounkpindo Gaston Akouehou, Benin Behzad Ghareyazie, Iran Alexis Ardrouin, Haiti Delegates from WG I consulting L-R: Endah Ambarwati, Indonesia; Amita Prasad, India; Ágnes Fejes and Zsuzsanna Ujj, Hungary Delegates from Brazil L-R: Andres Factos and Angel Onofa, Ecuador L-R: Indra Prasad Sapkota and Bijaya Raj Paudyal, Nepal L-R: Rajeyah Binkulaib and Nahla Noobi, United Arab Emirates Delegates from Nicaragua consulting Letchumanan Ramatha, Malaysia Kongit Haile-Gabriel, Dominica Akkharath Inthavy, Lao Democratic Republic CBD Secretariat staff Working Group II L-R: WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) and Lisa Janishevski, CBD Secretariat Damaso Luna, Mexico Itai Hilary Tendaupenyu, Zimbabwe Anna Trakhtenbrot, Israel Darío Luque, Panama Patrick Leon Pedia, Côte d'Ivoire Gabriele Obermayr, Austria Suleiman Al Akhzami, Oman Umair Shahid, Pakistan Joe Horokou, Solomon Islands Jiří Mach, Czech Republic L-R: Pedro Ivo Arriegas, and Marco Rebello, Portugal Conference room attendants Delegates from Uganda and Mexico consulting Representatives of Colombia, Chile and Iran consulting COP 13 Snapshots Participants from indigenous and local communities Norma Munguia and Damaso Luna, Mexico Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA (far left), with delegates from Guatemala and the Philippines Delegates from the EU Hayria Mohamed, Comoros Participants from the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN)

On Thursday, WG I addressed: cooperation with other conventions and organizations; a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol; and socioeconomic considerations, liability and redress, risk assessment and risk management, and unintentional transboundary movement of LMOs under the Cartagena Protocol. WG II approved without, or with minor discussion, conference room papers (CRPs) on sustainable wildlife management, UNPFII recommendations and climate-related geo-engineering. WG II further addressed marine debris and underwater noise, marine spatial planning, biodiversity in cold-water areas and pollinators. The budget group met in the morning. Contact groups on resource mobilization, capacity building, the financial mechanism, synthetic biology and Article 8(j) met throughout the day. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the UN Biodiversity Conference. The summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF. Photos by IISD/ENB | Francis Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Working Group I Chair Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) presiding over WG I Micheline Dorcé Donnacien, IIFB Pedro Rocha, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Cuauhtémoc Ochoa Fernández, Mexico Elena Makeyeva, Belarus Leo Maier, EU Neimatullo Safarov, Tajikistan Véronique Amari, Côte d'Ivoire Yousef Saleh Al-Hafedh, Saudi Arabia Goote Voigt-Hanssen, Norway Christine Echookit Akello, Uganda Letchumanan Ramatha, Malaysia Claudio Chiarolla, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Kent Nnadozie, Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGR) Working Group II L-R: Robert Höft, CBD Secretariat and WG II Chair Malta Qwathekana (South Africa) Reneé Sauvé, Canada Alain De Comarmond, Seychelles Adam van Opzeeland, New Zealand Ana María Hernández Salgar, Colombia Karma Nyedrup, Bhutan Esther Shushu Makwaia, Tanzania Akram Eissa Darwich, IFAW L-R: Augusto Manuel Pinto and Marcal Gusmao, Timor-Leste L-R: Marco Vinicio Araya, Pamela Castillo, and Zdenka Piskulich, Costa Rica L-R: Eleni Tokaduadua, Alisi Rabukawaqa, and Alfred Ralifo, Fiji L-R: Victor Canton, Anna Laura Mello, and Alejandro Nario Carvalho, Uruguay L-R: Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat, in conversation with Umair Shahid, Pakistan L-R: Daniela Diz, IISD RS, discussing marine issues with Alexander Shestakov, Russian Federation Contact Groups Contact group on traditional knowledge COP 13 participants waiting to enter the contact group on synthetic biology COP 13 Snapshots L-R: Ailis Rego, Charles Gbedemah, Michele Rattray, CBD Secretariat, waiting for the Budget Committee to start its session with CBD Executive Secretary Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias Youth participants consulting Nader Ibrahim, CBD Secretariat, with youngest COP 13 participant Theodore Sinatra, Mexico L-R: Daniela Hernández Orozco, Daniel Goycochea Rodríguez, and Alejandra Guzman Olguín, Mexico

Following the conclusion of the High-Level Segment (HLS) and adoption of the Cancun Declaration, the main part of the UN Biodiversity Conference started in the afternoon of Sunday, 4 December, with opening plenaries of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CP/COP-MOP 8) and the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (NP/COP-MOP 2). Plenaries addressed organizational matters, and heard reports and opening statements. Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico, was elected President of COP 13, CP/COP-MOP 8 and NP/COP-MOP 2. Mette Gervin Damsgaard (Denmark) and Skumsa Mancotywa (South Africa) were elected Chairs of Working Group I and Working Group II, respectively. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the UN Biodiversity Conference. The summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF. Photos by IISD/ENB | Francis Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Opening Plenary View of the plenary L-R: David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary, CBD Secretariat; Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, President of COP 13; Chun Kyoo Park, Director-General, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea; Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UN Environment; and Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Minister of Environment, Water and Forests, Romania, and incoming CBD Executive Secretary Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, President of COP 13 Chun Kyoo Park, on behalf of COP 12 Presidency Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UN Environment Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Minister of Environment, Water and Forests, Romania, and incoming CBD Executive Secretary Randolph Antonio Edmead, Saint Kitts and Nevis Ana Morales, Guatemala Habib Gademi, Chad Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Fabiola Jurado Mendoza, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) Tia Stevens, Australia Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director-General for the Environment, European Commission Yoshihiro Seki, State Minister of Environment, Japan James Kaliisa and Grecia Barcena, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary, CBD Jimena Nieto Carrasco, Colombia Hamdallah Zedan, Egypt, and former CBD Executive Secretary (center), with other delegates from Egypt COP13 Snapshots Ione Anderson, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and Lily Rodriguez, International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) Smart bikes are free to use by everyone attending COP 13

On Friday, 2 December 2016, the High-Level Segment (HLS) of the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP13) opened in Cancún, Mexico. Ministers and Heads of Delegation met in plenary in the morning. Two roundtables on agriculture and tourism convened in parallel in the afternoon, moderated by José Calzada, Minister of Agriculture, Mexico and Enrique de la Madrid, Minister of Tourism, Mexico, respectively. The fourth Midori Prize for Biodiversity honoring outstanding contributions to conservation and sustainable use at local and global levels was awarded to Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, Mexico; Yury Darman, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Russia; and Vandana Shiva, Founder and Director, Navdanya, India. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary and analysis report from the UN Biodiversity Conference. The summary and analysis report is available in HTML and PDF. Photos by IISD/ENB | Francis Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Opening Plenary of the High-Level Segment View of the High-Level Segment plenary Chun Kyoo Park, Director-General, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Helen Clark, Administrator, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Miguel Ruíz Cabañas, Vice-Minister of Multilatreal Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility (GEF) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Minister of Environment, Water and Forests, Romania, and incoming Executive Secretary, CBD Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, UN World Torurism Organization (UNWTO) Inger Andersen, Director-General, IUCN Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Gino Van Begin, Secretary-General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Elisa Romano Dezolt, Chair, CBD Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity José Sarukhán Kermez, National Coordinator, National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity of Mexico (CONABIO) Maria Eugenia Choque Quispe, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) Christian Schwarzer and Melina Sakiyama, representatives of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) L-R: Midori Prize winners Alfonso Aguirre-Muñoz, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, Mexico; Yury Darman, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Russia; and Vandana Shiva, Founder and Director, Navdanya, India HLS Round Tables: Agriculture and Tourism José Calzada, Minister of Agriculture, Mexico, moderated the roundtable on Agriculture Luis Urriza, Undersecretary of Agriculture, Argentina Maggie Barry, Minister of Conservation, New Zealand Lars Andreas Lunde, State Secretary for Environment, Norway Delegates at the roundtable on agriculture Barbara Pompili, Minister of State for Biodiversity, France Yoshihiro Seki, State Minister of Environment, Japan Joshua Wycliffe, Permanent Secretary for Local Government, Housing and Environment, Fiji Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, UN World Tourism Organization and Enrique de la Madrid, Minister of Tourism, Mexico Delegates at the roundtable on tourism COP13 Snapshots Participants from the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity and UNEP

On the third and final day of the Budapest Water Summit, delegates heard keynote presentations on four cross-cutting issues: climate and disasters; urban systems; transboundary water management; and progress toward a global indicator framework for monitoring of the SDGs, including SDG 6 on water. A High-level Special Session on Climate Change and Water also took place, with addresses by leaders and representatives of Saudi Arabia, Poland, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Council for Science, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the Green Climate Fund. Speakers noted the increasing impacts on water and the growing scale of the challenge. Participants discussed how to achieve integrated approaches to water management and underlined the need to maintain the “water momentum” displayed at the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP-22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakech, Morocco, earlier in November 2016. In the afternoon, András Szöllősi-Nagy, Co-Chair of the Budapest Water Summit, invited participants to discuss the Budapest Water Summit Messages document, which presents ideas for water management within the 15-year framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Rapporteurs from each of the six sessions that took place during the Summit reported to plenary the main outcomes of discussions. Delegates also heard report-backs from the Women, Civil, Science-Technology and Youth Forums that took place in parallel with the Summit. At the closing session, Szöllősi-Nagy explained that the Messages will remain a living document. Participants then welcomed the Messages by acclamation. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius, Co-Chair of the High-Level Panel on Water, reminded participants that water demands an urgent response, and that immediate action is a matter of dignity, justice and survival. Csaba Balogh, Minister of State for Public Administration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary, said that the Summit had undoubtedly been a milestone in the global water agenda, drawing 2,600 participants from 117 countries. The meeting closed at 4.55 pm. IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports and a summary report from BWS 2016, which is available in HTML and PDF. Photos by IISD/ENB | Sean Wu For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page. Keynotes on Cross-cutting Issues (L-R) Gabriella Vukovich, President, Hungarian Central Statistical Office; Graham Alabaster, Chief, Waste Management & Sanitation, UN-Habitat; Toshio Koike, Director, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management; Stefan Uhlenbrook, World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO; and Francesca Bernardini, Secretary, UNECE Water Convention Toshio Koike, Director, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management Francesca Bernardini, Secretary, UNECE Water Convention Gabriella Vukovich, President, Hungarian Central Statistical Office Graham Alabaster, Chief, Waste Management & Sanitation, UN-Habitat High-level Special Session on Climate Change and Water (L-R) Javier Manzanares, Executive Director a.i., Green Climate Fund; János Pásztor, Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change and Senior Fellow of Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Gordon McBean, President, International Council for Science; Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO); Mariusz Gajda, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of the Environment, Poland; Mohammed Al-Saud, Deputy Minister for Water, Saudi Arabia; and Johannes Cullmann, Director, WMO Javier Manzanares, Executive Director a.i., Green Climate Fund Johannes Cullmann, Director, WMO Mohammed Al-Saud, Deputy Minister for Water, Saudi Arabia Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, WMO Participants asking questions during high-level panel discussion 3 --> Discussion Session András Szöllősi-Nagy, Co-Chair, Budapest Water Summit (L-R) Joshua Newton, World Bank Group, Global Water Partnership, African Development Bank; Balázs Heincz, ‎Water Coordinator at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary; and András Szöllősi-Nagy, Co-Chair, Budapest Water Summit Plenary Session and DiscussionRapporteurs of the 6 sessions and the stakeholders’ fora report back (L-R) Béla Kuslits, Regional Environmental Center (REC); Alice Bouman-Dentener, Chair a.i., Global Water Partnership; Chishala Kapupu, Go Green R^3; János Zlinszky, Director, REC; Anik Bhaduri, Executive Director, Sustainable Water Future Programme, Australia; Rozemarijn ter Horst, Board Member, Water Youth Network; Sarah Dousse, Executive Director a.i., International Secretariat for Water/Solidarity Water Europe; Marianne Kjellén, UNDP Senior Water Advisor; András Szöllősi-Nagy, Co-Chair of the International Programme Committee of the Budapest Water Summit 2016; and Stefan Uhlenbrook, World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO János Zlinszky, Director, REC Stefan Uhlenbrook, World Water Assessment Programme, UNESCO Chishala Kapupu, Go Green R^3 Alice Bouman-Dentener, Chair a.i., Global Water Partnership Presentation of the Budapest Water Summit 2016 Messages András Szöllősi-Nagy, Co-Chair of the International Programme Committee of the Budapest Water Summit 2016 Closing Remarks Csaba Balogh, Minister of State for Public Administration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius, Co-Chair of the High-Level Panel on Water Zsófia Tomaj, Master of Ceremonies (left) and delegates express appreciation to Summit Co-Chair András Szöllősi-Nagy and the organizing team. 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