Summary of Convention on Biological Diversity COP13 Conference of Parties December 2016, Cancun. Presentation for Alcuenet subgroup meeting "Biodiversity and Climate Change" in Brussels, On February 28th, 2017 at the Embassy of Colombia in Brussels the Workshop of Experts in biodiversity and Climate Change was carried out in the framework of the ALCUE-NET project http://alcuenet.eu/news.php?id=109

1. Achievements and results of the
last meeting of the CBD in Cancun
Klaus Riede
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Bonn, Germany

2. Convention of the Parties (COP 13) to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD):
Cancun, Mexico, 2-17 Dec 2016
COP 12 (October 2014), Pyeongchang, Korea, reaffirmed
COP 11 agreement to double total biodiversity related
international financial resource flows to developing
countries.

3. UN Biodiversity Conference -
Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Well-Being
Coverage by http://www.iisd.ca/biodiv/cop13/enb/

4. UN Biodiversity Conference COP 13
- Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Well-Being
● Scientific preconference 1-2 Dec
3er Foro de Ciencias para la Biodiversidad
● High-Level Segment (HLS) 5-6 Dec:
Cancún Declaration: ‫العربية‬English Español Français Русский
● COP 13 37 decisions
● COP-MOP 8 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
19 decisions
● COP-MOP 2 Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources
and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their
Utilization 14 decisions

5. https://www.cbd.int/cop/cop-13/hls/Cancun%20Declaration-EN.pdf

6. CANCUN DECLARATION ON MAINSTREAMING THE CONSERVATION AND
SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR WELL-BEING
https://www.cbd.int/cop/cop-13/hls/Cancun%20Declaration-EN.pdf
6. Implementation of the Paris Agreement under
the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, which recognizes the importance
of ensuring the integrity of all ecosystems and the
protection of biodiversity when taking action to
address climate change, can and should also
contribute to the implementation of the objectives
of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and vice
versa.

7. CANCUN DECLARATION ON MAINSTREAMING THE CONSERVATION AND
SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY FOR WELL-BEING
https://www.cbd.int/cop/cop-13/hls/Cancun%20Declaration-EN.pdf
7. We need to make additional efforts to ensure
the effective implementation of the Convention on
Biological Diversity, the Strategic Plan for
Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity
Targets, and the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols,
and facilitate closer collaboration with other
initiatives adopted in international fora related to
sustainable development, trade, agriculture,
fisheries, forestry and tourism, among other
sectors.

8. WE COMMIT: To work at all levels
within our governments and across
all sectors to mainstream
biodiversity, establishing effective
institutional, legislative and
regulatory frameworks, tailored to
national needs and circumstances,
and incorporating an inclusive
economic, social, and cultural
approach with full respect for nature
and human rights, through the
following actions:
UNEP/CBD/COP/13/24

9. 6. Promote the conservation,
sustainable use, and where
necessary, restoration of
ecosystems as a basis for achieving
good health, clean water and
sanitation, food security, the
reduction of hunger and
improvement of nutrition, poverty
eradication, prevention of natural
disasters, resilient, sustainable and
inclusive cities and human
settlements, and climate change
adaptation and mitigation.
UNEP/CBD/COP/13/24

10. 3er Foro de Ciencias para la Biodiversidad
Integrando la biodiversidad al bienestar: contribuciones de la
ciencia
http://cop13.mx/foro-ciencias-la-biodiversidad/

11. 3er Foro de Ciencias para la Biodiversidad

12. Events

13. Convention on Biological Diversity
The CBD has three aims (Art. 1 CBD):
1. The conservation of biological diversity
2. The sustainable use of its components
3. The fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the
utilisation of genetic resources
https://www.cbd.int/convention/text/
Key Convention adopted at 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro
193 Parties

14. CBD website https://www.cbd.int/

16. CBD –Nagoya protocol on ABS
•Article 1: Nagoya protocol text
https://www.cbd.int/abs/text/articles/default.shtml?sec=abs-01
“The objective of this Protocol is the fair and equitable sharing
of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources,
including by appropriate access to genetic resources and by
appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into
account all rights over those resources and to technologies,
and by appropriate funding, thereby contributing to the
conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of
its components.”

17. National Biodiversity Strategies
NBSAPs

18. Access to Decisions and Inf.
documents

19. Access to Decisions and Inf. documents
CBD/COP/DEC/XIII/3
Strategic actions to enhance the
implementation of the Strategic Plan for
Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the
achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity
Targets, including with respect to
mainstreaming and the integration of
biodiversity within and across sectors

21. Aichi Targets 2020
https://www.cbd.int/sp/

22. Strategic Goal E: Enhance implementation through
participatory planning, knowledge management and capacity
building
By 2015 each Party has developed, adopted as a policy instrument, and has
commenced implementing an effective, participatory and updated national
biodiversity strategy and action plan.
Target 18
By 2020, the traditional knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and
local communities relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity,
and their customary use of biological resources, are respected, ., and fully
integrated and reflected in the implementation of the Convention …., at all relevant
levels.
Target 19
By 2020, knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to biodiversity, its
values, functioning, status and trends, and the consequences of its loss, are
improved, widely shared and transferred, and applied.
Target 20
By 2020, at the latest, the mobilization of financial resources for effectively
implementing the Strategic Plan

23. CBD COP 13 outcomes
“The UN Biodiversity Conference marked the move towards enhanced
implementation of the Strategic Plan and Aichi Biodiversity Targets
through decisions to mainstream biodiversity into productive sectors,
including agriculture, fisheries, tourism and forests, and promote
integration of the Convention and its Protocols through the
organization of concurrent meetings. In addition, the Conference
considered a series of items on emerging technologies, including
synthetic biology, gene drives and digital sequence information on
genetic resources, paving the way for ensuring the Convention’s
relevance in environmental governance”
SUMMARY OF THE UN BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE: 2-17 DECEMBER 2016
http://www.iisd.ca/download/pdf/enb09678e.pdf

24. COP 13 Outcomes for Alcuenet
Biodiversity & Climate change Initiative
Plenary:
Little time left until 2020 and only one third of the Aichi
Targets are on track (Aichi Target 10 missed!)
Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico:
“either we change our way of life to stop biodiversity loss
or that loss will change forever our ways of life.” For more
details, see: http://www.iisd.ca/vol09/enb09668e.html.
Need to learn from other cultures, pointing to the Mayan
and other civilizations in the region.
Announced Mexico’s decision to significantly expand
protected areas (PAs), tripling previous targets on
coverage of marine and terrestrial PAs.

25. Biodiversity and climate change
CBD/COP/DEC/XIII/4
Recognizing that cooperation
among the biodiversity, climate
change adaptation,
Mitigation and disaster
reduction communities
results in a greater ability to
design interventions that
deliver multiple
benefits

26. Biodiversity and climate change
CBD/COP/DEC/XIII/4
…..Also recognizing the potential for synergies provided by the
2030 Agenda for SustainableDevelopment,...
and the Paris Agreement
Also recognizing
the need for improved scientific information concerning the climate
change adaptation of the protected areas networks, their
functionality and connectivity,

27. Biodiversity and climate change
CBD/COP/DEC/XIII/4
1. Welcomes the Paris Agreement in particular the articles related
to biodiversity;
2. Encourages Parties and other Governments, when
developing their Nationally Determined Contributions and,
where appropriate, implementing associated domestic
measures, to fully take into account the importance of ensuring
the integrity of all ecosystems, including oceans, and the
protection of biodiversity, and to integrate ecosystem based
approaches, involving the national focal points to the CBD in
this work and ensuring that information and tools and guidance
developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity are
used, as appropriate;

28. Climate change Day:
Rio Pavillon
http://www.iisd.ca/download/pdf/sd/enbplus200num39e.pdf

29. Climate Change Day (Session 2): Opportunities for promoting
ecosystem-based approaches to climate mitigation and
adaptation in light of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable
Development Goals
Climate Change Day:
Session 2
2016-12-06
Climate Change Day (Session 2): Opportunities
for promoting ecosystem-based approaches to
climate mitigation and adaptation in light of the
Paris Agreement and the Sustainable
Development Goals
Keynote addresses:
Government of South Africa
Representative from GEF
Mr. Humberto Delgado Rosa, European
Commission DG ENV Director
Ms. Cyrie Sendashonga, Global Director,
Programme and Policy Group, IUCN
Mr. Nik Sekhran, Director for Sustainable
Development, UNDP
Mr. Braulio Dias, Executive Secretary, CBD

30. Further items
Protected areas
Biodiversity and Human Health
Resource Mobilization and Financial Mechanism
Capacity Building and Scientific Cooperation
“Taking note” of IPBES Pollinator assessment

31. Capacity Building
Decision XIII/23

32. More hot topics
Access and Benefit sharing with Digital gene sequences
Synthetic biology http://flux.live/cop/copvod/public/player/151
Gene drive and CRISPR-CAS
Gene Drive Moratorium (FoE)
http://flux.live/cop/copvod/public/player/46
The Captain Hook Awards 2016 for biopiracy
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33. Enrique Peña Nieto:
“either we change our way of life to stop
biodiversity loss or that loss will change
forever our ways of life.”
Thank You!
Gracias!
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