TWN Info Service on Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge (Mar21/01)
16 March 2021
Third World Network

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Virtual informal session of SBI-3 considers implementation of CBD and its Protocols

The CBD’s Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) held a virtual informal session from 8-12 March and 14 March 2021. This was not a formal meeting or a virtual negotiation, as there has been no agreement yet on moving forward in this manner. Some developing countries are concerned that formal virtual negotiations will be inequitable, disadvantaging poorer countries with limited capacity and resources and without good internet and technical capability, while posing challenges for regional and other coordination.

The SBI’s core functions and areas of work are (a) review of progress in implementation; (b) strategic actions to enhance implementation; (c) strengthening means of implementation; and (d) operations of the convention and the Protocols.

TWN made statements on the following agenda items, including one delivered on behalf of the CBD Alliance, representing the civil society major stakeholder group at the CBD:

• Review of progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
• Assessment and review of the effectiveness of the Cartagena Protocol
• Overview of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework process (Statement on the Cartagena Protocol)
• Resource mobilization and the financial mechanism
• Options to enhance planning, reporting, and review mechanisms with a view to strengthening the implementation of the Convention
• Review of the effectiveness of the processes under the Convention and its Protocols
• Specialized International Access and Benefit-Sharing Instruments in the Context of Article 4, Paragraph 4, of the Nagoya Protocol

With best wishes,

Third World Network
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