Seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-7) - AM Session

Excellencies, distinguished delegates, I would like to begin. Please take your seats. Good morning to you all.

Good morning.

Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, I would like to call the meeting to order. I invite delegates to take their seats. Yes, thank you very much. Good morning to you all. Welcome to the 7th meeting of the subsidiary body on implementation. It is wonderful to be here in beautiful Kenya at the United Nations office in Nairobi at UNEP headquarters. This is our last opportunity before we meet in Yerevan to tackle important implementation questions that parties have worked on since the adoption of the KMGBF framework in 2022. We have a full agenda and a clear purpose: to equip parties with recommendations that help accelerate implementation of the Convention, its Protocols, and the KMGBF. As you must have noted, each agenda item of this meeting has many sub-items, each one of which deserve careful consideration as we find ways to agree on a collective approach for critical building blocks on implementation, from financing biodiversity to mainstreaming it across economic sectors, and from repurposing harmful incentives to also to capacity building and public awareness, among others. We are here to strengthen the foundation for critical decisions at COP17 in Yerevan including, of course, the global review of collective progress on the KMGBF. Rather than reading the agenda item by item right now, I would simply say this: every item before us matters and every item deserves our full attention in order to help parties achieve— you achieve desired impacts of the Convention and the KMGBF for people planet, and prosperity as we progress on our pathway to living in harmony with nature. Our challenge here is to work through each agenda item efficiently and collaboratively while remembering that decisions we take here ultimately affect the well-being of people, ecological foundations of our economies, and the health of our planet. I encourage you all delegates to be concise in their interventions and solution-oriented in your negotiations. I would also like to thank the Secretariat for the considerable work undertaken in preparing the documentation for this meeting and supporting our deliberations. I have all the confidence that working together here in the spirit of cooperation and compromise that has long characterized this convention and, of course, which we have seen last week during CEBSTA, with the resolve to address the biodiversity crisis, will deliver a strong package of recommendations for COP17 and it will ease our work there. As you will recall, at SBI 6 in Rome, I made an analogy of traveling light to Yerevan. I would like to remind us all that we still have quite a bit of baggage we've sent on the road ahead of us. I'm aware we still have many items before us during this 10 days or so, but let us endeavor this week to finalize clear and clean text for us not to add to that burden. and to provide a smooth sailing through COP17. With that, I wish us all a productive and successful meeting. Thank you all. I would now like to invite Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Murema, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to deliver opening remarks on behalf of Ms. Inger Andersen, Executive Director. Ms. Mirema, you have the floor.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

I appreciate it.

And greetings to all the delegates in the room and outside. It's my pleasure also to see many familiar faces. in my old days, so welcome to this beautiful compound, green but chilly, good weather. So you are all welcome and really a pleasure to be here. And let me begin first to thank the Secretariat led by Astrid for all the work they've put forward to enable us all to meet here. Secretariat, my dear colleagues, former colleagues, present colleagues, thank you very much. And to delegates, yes, welcome. When the Montreal— Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had this to say to describe it. And he said, and I quote, a plan to rescue humanity from a crisis of our own making, end of quote. Clearly, this statement captured both the scale of biodiversity crisis and the ambition of the global response. 3 years on plus, the plan is very clear. Its delivery, though, is still uncertain, and that is why we are meeting here on implementation is so important. The Global Biodiversity Framework does provide the world's roadmap to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 through, as you know, the 4 long-term goals and the 23 action targets you adopted. And since its adoption, it has generated an unprecedented level of political commitment. So again, many thanks to you all and your governments. Already we know 170 parties have already submitted the national biodiversity targets aligned to the Global Biodiversity Framework, and that represents almost over 97%. Congratulations to all the parties. This is clearly the highest level of engagement ever achieved under the biodiversity— Global Biodiversity Framework. It is indeed encouraging, but it is only the beginning of the work. The first global review of collective progress also delivers a clear message which says Fewer than half of parties— half of parties report that they are currently on track to achieve any of the Framework's global biodiversity targets by 2030. But collectively, national targets still fall short of the ambition needed to be achieved by our shared global goals. Progress is particularly slow in marine, coastal, and inland water ecosystems, where protection, restoration, and sustainable management continue to lag behind terrestrial ecosystems. That is why this subsidiary body on implementation really matters. Over the coming days, you will review progress in implementing the Convention and its Protocols, strengthen approaches to capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation, and advance work on mainstreaming biodiversity across sectors. You will also consider emerging issues such as synthetic biology and deepen an engagement of subnational governments and other stakeholders. Most importantly, You will help prepare—

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Sorry. Most importantly, you will help to prepare the decisions that will guide your Conference of the Parties, Party Session 17 in Yerevan. Delivering the framework will require a whole of government and a whole of society approach. It will also require stronger institutions, better finance, and more cooperation in science and technology. National governments must work alongside local governments, indigenous peoples, local communities, the private sector, academia, civil society, not forgetting the young, people, the youth. Strengthening biodiversity planning, monitoring, reporting, institutional coordination, and financial resources mobilization will be essential if we are to translate the commitments undertaken into measurable outcomes. And that's why partnership— partnerships also matter. South-South cooperation and regional support centers are becoming increasingly important in helping countries accelerate implementation. Together, we can move faster and further than any other country acting alone. At a time when the United Nations is advancing the UN80 agenda, we also have an opportunity to strengthen how we support parties in implementing the Convention and its Protocols, as well as the Global Biodiversity Framework. Through a more coordinated United Nations country-level support led by the United Nations Resident Coordinators and UN country teams, we can better respond to national priorities and national needs. And this includes facilitating access to expertise on demand, strengthening technical assistance, and ensuring that countries can draw on the full breadth of knowledge and capacities available across the UN system. UNEP remains fully committed to supporting parties in this endeavor. Through our biodiversity portfolio, our National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans Accelerator Partnership, the GEF-funded enabling activities, the United Nations Biodiversity Lab, and our wider network of technical partnerships, we are working with countries to translate that global ambition into national actions and local results. This approach is closely aligned with the objectives of the UN AIT Work Package 27 on environmental coordination. As we work to deliver more effective support to member states, there is a clear opportunity to strengthen cooperation and partnerships across multilateral environmental agreements and the wider UN system. Also, to be able to improve coherence and efficiency, reduce duplication, and make better use of our collective expertise and resources. By working more closely together, we can provide more integrated support to countries and help accelerate implementation of biodiversity and broader environmental commitments. Distinguished delegates, the work before us is about turning commitments into measurable actions. It is about ensuring that science informs policy, that partnerships strengthen implementation, and that today's decisions become tomorrow's results. I opened with a quote from the Secretary-General, but let me also remind us that he went further to urge us, and I quote, pick up the pace with ambition and accountability, end of quote. Let us therefore use this meeting to identify solutions to strengthen cooperation and to prepare the way forward to a successful COP17. I wish you all productive discussions and every success in the crucial work ahead. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Ms. Mirema. I now invite the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Ms. Astrid Schomacher to address the meeting. Ms. Schomacher, you have the floor.

Thank you. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, dear friends, a very warm welcome to SBI 7, the largest ever, and a special welcome to Vice Ministers Robert and Aron.

Your last names continue to beat me, but I will learn them by the time we get to Yerevan.

So, I am grateful, to begin with, to the United Nations Office in Nairobi and the United Nations Environment Programme for all the support provided to the CBD Secretariat in organizing this meeting, hard on the heels, of course, of SAPSTAR 28. And I also wish to reiterate my gratitude, our gratitude, to the European Union, Ireland, Japan, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the Fridtjof Nansen Institute for their generous financial support, which has enabled the participation of delegates from 118 parties. Colleagues, what an exciting moment this is.

All SBI meetings are important, but this one, I believe, carries special significance for at least 2 reasons: its timing and its agenda. To start with timing, SBI 7 will conclude its work in mere 8 weeks.

Looking towards the Armenian delegation. Ahead of the start of the pivotal 2026 United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Yerevan, COP17 and the COP-MOPs of the protocols will mark the halfway point in the implementation of our Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework. And COP17 will consider the recommendations coming out of this meeting for numerous and momentous decisions, including in the context of the all-important first Global Review of Collective Progress in the implementation of the Framework. So that brings me to my second point, why SBI 7 carries specific importance: the agenda. The expected recommendations of this meeting are key to success in Yerevan and then, of course, beyond.

I'm sure that we will hear the word acceleration within these walls over the next days a number of times because we all know This is what it takes.

The facts contained in the now peer-reviewed draft Global Report on Collective Progress are unequivocal. We collectively must do more and much faster if the world is to achieve the 23 targets of the KMGBF. But there is so much encouraging news as well. As the global draft Global Report tells us, the adoption of the framework has triggered unprecedented engagement and action for biodiversity, across the globe and across all types of actors. And it was really encouraging to see this spirit also being carried into COP28 last week, when parties worked constructively at all hours of day and night to bridge differences and move the agenda forward. Yet we also know progress has been conspicuously uneven. Some of the targets, such as the classic conservation targets, have gained a lot of visibility and are progressing, albeit slowly. But areas that are of particular relevance to SBI, the means of implementation, from finance to capacity building to access to knowledge and information, are reflected in some of the targets that are lagging behind. And inertia is really not the problem here. The lack of progress in these crucial areas often stems from persisting misalignments and imbalances in public policies and investment decisions. Biodiversity finance is a case in point. In fact, investment in nature has grown steadily since the adoption of the Framework, but it remains largely outpaced by the volume and scale of money being poured into activities that harm biodiversity. For every dollar the world invests in protecting nature, we know that roughly 30 go towards activities that fuel its destruction. So the world, we believe, clearly now sees the importance of biodiversity action, but it is not yet acting accordingly, to the detriment of biodiversity economies and present and future generations. And yet we also know it would take only a fraction of global GDP to invest in nature. By some estimates, only 0.5% to meet global biodiversity, climate, and land restoration targets. So, this is a paradox, and addressing this paradox is now a global emergency that can actually only be addressed through multilateralism coupled with then resolute national action. And yes, the geopolitical headwinds are strong, and we should have no illusions about shifting priorities in public spending quickly. But the case for swifter and bolder biodiversity action has never been more compelling, and I believe also never been more recognized, including in the finance sector. Recent shortages of fossil fuel derivatives, such as synthetic fertilizers, are a reminder of the need to invest in the health of soils and pollinators for our food security, nutrition, and well-being. The heat waves that are scorching vast swaths of the planet, the dramatic wildfires in Western Europe, and the fresh warnings about an unprecedented El Niño are stark signs that we must heed And they paint a picture of this accelerating crisis where climate change and biodiversity loss are mutually reinforcing and bringing us towards dangerous tipping points. So, acting for nature at the required scale and pace starts with acknowledging that today's risks are tomorrow's staggering costs, that sustainable consumption and production and nature-based solutions are our best insurance policy, and that science is our best ally. With that acknowledgement, lifting the hurdles that impede the accelerated implementation of the KMGBF really becomes an imperative, and that's what you're here to work on. And I'm confident, distinguished delegates, that you will find the wisdom and the stamina to achieve what you came to Nairobi for: strong recommendations that COP17 can use to bring about the surge of implementation in the last 4 years separating us from 2030. And let us also work to leverage the commitment and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, women, youth, scientific organizations, the private sector, subnational governments, cities, and other actors to fulfill the promise of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Governments, national governments can't do it alone, but you have many allies and friends, and we're so happy to see their representatives in great numbers in this room. But to do that, and that's my conclusion, SBI 7 first must get the job done here in Nairobi. So I wish all of us a very successful meeting. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much, Ms. Schumacher, for your opening remarks. I would like to reiterate my thanks to you and your team for your hard work in preparing for this meeting. I would like— I would now like to invite the representative of the President of the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Mr. Andrés Duque Solís, from the Embassy of Colombia in Kenya, to address the meeting. Mr. Solís, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Honorable SBI Chair Clarissa Nina, Honorable Executive Secretary Astrid Schiavonaca, distinguished delegates, representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities, civil society, women, youth, academia, and the private sector. It is an honor to address you on behalf of the COP16 Presidency to open the 7th meeting of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation. We are meeting at a critical time for the Convention on Biological Diversity. The time for making commitments is behind us. Today, the challenge is to turn the CUMIN Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into concrete results for nature and for people. That was the essence that guided COP16 in Cali. There, parties demonstrated that even in the face of complex challenges, it is possible to build ambitious agreements when there is political will and common purpose. It is up to this plenary to translate these agreements into actions that strengthen implementation at all levels as a pillar of our work. Each of the items on this agenda represents an essential piece to achieve the goals of the Framework by 2030. The first Global Review is a historic opportunity to consolidate a collective learning and accountability mechanism. It should not be understood as an exercise in evaluation among parties, but as a tool to identify opportunities, share experiences, strengthen implementation, and guide COP17 decisions based on the best available evidence and national reports. We know that implementation will only be possible if we make progress in the means that make it viable. Resource mobilization remains a priority. We must strengthen funding from all sources, improve its effectiveness, and ensure that resources reach those who need them in a sufficient, predictable, and accessible manner. In the same vein, the strengthening of the financial mechanism and the progress towards the 9th replenishment of the Global Environment Facility represent an increase in the confidence of parties and a more effective implementation of the framework. The adoption of the multilateral mechanism for fair and equitable benefit sharing from digital sequence information and the KALI Fund are important legacies of COP16. It is now up to us to preserve the balance achieved in KALI and concentrate our efforts on its implementation. Developing the pending technical aspects so that these mechanisms— this mechanism ensures the sustainable use of biodiversity, tangible benefits for conservation, as well as the fair and equitable distribution of such benefits. Implementation also occurs in the territories. For this reason, subnational governments cities, and local authorities are indispensable allies in bringing global goals closer to national realities. Invigorating multilevel governance, promoting the exchange of experiences, and building alliances between levels of government will accelerate implementation while respecting different national circumstances. None of these goals will be possible without strengthened capacities. Scientific and technical cooperation, knowledge sharing, and access to information. We must consolidate a mechanism for scientific and technical cooperation that responds to the needs of parties, as well as the facilitation of a platform that connects science, public policy, traditional knowledge, and experience. The integration of biodiversity into all sectors of the economy and development remains a prerequisite for achieving the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Biodiversity cannot continue to be just an environmental policy. It must be progressively incorporated into economic, productive, financial, and sustainability decisions if we aspire to transform the root causes of biodiversity loss. Education, communication, and public participation will continue to be fundamental pillars. One of the greatest achievements of COP16 was to bring biodiversity closer to society and demonstrate that its conservation will only be possible through the active participation of indigenous peoples and of local communities, people of African descent, women, youth, academia, the private sector, and all social actors. The presidency thus reiterates that the protection of biodiversity requires action on the structural causes that drive its loss. These include climate change and production and consumption models that rely on fossil fuels. For this reason, the First Conference for the Transition Beyond Fossil Fuels held in Santa Marta, Colombia, with the support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, represents a complement to the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Promoting a transition to more sustainable energy systems is not exclusively a climate policy, but a tool to reduce pressures on ecosystems, support nature's resilience, and move towards a development model compatible with the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Colombia hopes that this dialogue will contribute to consolidating an increasingly integrated vision between the biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development agendas. That has been our message from Cali. Implementation requires integrating agendas, connecting institutions, maximizing capacities, mobilizing resources, and building alliances to turn international commitments into real transformation on the territory. Our legacy goes beyond the decisions taken during COP16. Our legacy proposes a new way of working based on cooperation, trust between parties, scientific and traditional knowledge, the inclusion of diverse actors, and the conviction that peace with nature will only be possible if we act together and with a sense of urgency. In that spirit, I wish all delegations a productive and constructive meeting. May the work we undertake during these days bring us closer to a shared vision of living in harmony with nature and enlighten us on the way to Yerevan. This presidency will accompany this meeting in a spirit of dialogue and consensus building, giving its full support to SBI Chair Clarissa Nina, all parties, and the Bureau. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. Duxolix. Ladies and gentlemen, with that we conclude the opening of the meeting. Colleagues, as indicated in the scenario note, I will not be opening the floor to general opening statements by regional groups. We will begin matters with item 2 momentarily. Just a moment. Okay, so item 2, organization matters, adoption of the agenda and organization of work. Before we begin, I would like to invite the Secretariat to provide some logistical information. Secretariat, you have the floor.

Thank you, Thank you very much. The cabin crew is here again at SBI 7. So let me first thank you and say good morning and welcome you all to the SBI 7 meeting. It's very encouraging that we have a very high number of participation and registration, more than 900 participants registered from more than 140 parties, so that's an expression of commitment, so thank you so much Thank you for that. Also, we are very encouraged by the other commitments that we are seeing, like the number of contributions you have made to the national reports— unprecedented, I would say. The comments we received on the global report— unprecedented. And also the movement on targets that the global report is reflecting— I think that's a very encouraging sign, so that gives us all the energy that we have here in the room that there is a lot work happening, there is a lot of progress happening, and as my father used to say, if I can repeat, you are doing well but you can do better. So there is that part that we need to do better, and you have heard it from the Executive Secretary as well as from the Chair. So I think that's the agenda in front of us. It's also a reflection in a way of the reality which is now being understood very well. that there will be no prosperity, there will be no jobs, and there will be no growth on a dead planet. And that's, I think, our collective mission, that we are trying to slow down, reverse, and halt biodiversity loss because it is the foundational element of human prosperity. So thank you so much for your feedback on SBI 6 services that we provided. That gives us additional energy and encouragement. So now we are ready for descent to Yerevan in a few weeks, and as the Chair has said, let's travel light. So I hope that we will be able to push the agenda forward with more consensus so that the work in Yerevan is much lighter. About this meeting, a few things which is very usual, which was my last time thing that you all know about it. So please note that this meeting is being held in person only. There is no online participation available. All plenary sessions will, however, be streamed on UN Web TV in all 6 UN languages, as shown on the slide before you. Yes, because we can't see the slide, so we are looking back. And that offers an opportunity for your colleagues in the capitals to follow the conversations here in the plenary and also provide you inputs, especially for delegations to coordinate the positions in different locations. I also invite you to take note of the Secretariat's social media channels, which also appear on the next 2 slides. So this is the first slide, so you can see the social media channels to follow. follow and also to tag. And then the second slide you have. Let me begin with information on how to use the microphones. To request the floor, please press the button once and the light will turn green. When the chair gives you the floor, the technician will activate your microphone. The light will turn red and you can start speaking. Delegates seated behind microphones allocated to Indigenous people and local communities and major stakeholder groups such as women, youth, NGO, business, and industry should identify their organizations before commencing their interventions so that their statements can be properly attributed. Delegates are requested to keep within the assigned time when taking the floor and to speak at a reasonable speed to facilitate the work of interpreters. I will explain shortly the details of the assigned time for interventions. Secondly, regarding the statements, delegates are requested to upload their written statements using the upload statement facility on the meeting page https://www.cbd.int/meetings/sbi-07. I hope it's visible there as well. Instructions are displayed on the current slide. In case of any difficulty uploading the statements, delegates are advised to send an email to statements@cbd.int. cbd.int with a copy to secretariat@cbd.int. It greatly facilitates the work of interpreters if you upload your statements prior to being delivered from the floor. However, they will be posted on website only after the delivery. In any case, Statements must be submitted within 1 hour after the close of the session in which the agenda item was considered. Kindly note that if any party wishes to have a statement reflected in the report of the meeting, it must be uploaded in the same manner as statements. In your submission, please make sure to include the name of your country, or your organization and the agenda item on the first page of the document that is uploaded. Kindly note that for reasons of transparency, all statements will be made public. There is no option for private statements. In the event that a party or observer has submitted more than one version of the statement, we will only consider the most recent uploaded version. In view of the heavy agenda of this meeting, the Chair will be limiting interventions to 4 minutes for parties speaking on behalf of the regions, 2 minutes for individual parties, 3 minutes for Indigenous people and local communities and major stakeholder groups, and 1 minute for non-parties and other observers. The mics automatically turn itself off when the speaking time is over. Dear delegates, on the slides, as explained in the scenario note contained in document CBD SBI 71 Add 2, as well as in the Notification 2026- dated 26th June 2026, modalities for early submission of statements are being implemented at SBI 7 on a voluntary and informal basis for all substantive agenda items, agenda items 3 to 14. The statements received have been published online as received at www.cbd.in. Meetings/SBI-07 under the Statements tab. They are identified as advanced statement submissions. AI-assisted translations were generated automatically for early statements to enhance accessibility. However, the original submitted version of the statement remains only authoritative source of information. A list of parties and observers that submitted early statements, as well as links to their statements, is available in the Information Document No. 21. As indicated in the modalities, party statements were published at the deadline last night, except for the statements of parties that requested that their statements be published upon Observer statements were each published upon upload. When the respective agenda items are opened for consideration, parties will be asked whether they wish to support any of the statements submitted by observers. Therefore, parties are encouraged to review their statements in advance. Next, regarding scheduling, in line with the usual practice, A typical day will comprise a morning session, an afternoon session, and an evening session. The schedule is subject to change. Therefore, we encourage you to check the conference webpage, the CBD Events app or application for the most up-to-date information. This scheduling takes into account Decision 1625 of the Conference of Parties, Which recognized the need to limit evening negotiation sessions to reasonable hours to preserve the health of delegates. Therefore, unless otherwise agreed, the schedule will be arranged so that the day does not exceed beyond 13 hours from the start of the first open-ended meeting of the day. Next, regarding the meeting rooms. All plenary sessions will take place in this room, Conference Room 2, where seating is fixed. Parties and observers should ensure that they are sitting at the correct nameplate so that when they request the floor, they will be identified correctly to the Chair. Indigenous people and local communities and stakeholder groups have sections identified by nameplates. Conference Room 1 which is opposite here, will accommodate overflow with sound in English. Should delegates wish to follow the session in a different UN language, please connect to UN Web TV livestream on your laptop or phone through the meeting calendar and select the desired language. Regarding contact group rooms, Conference Room 1 will be used for contact groups. Cardboard nameplates will be available at the back of the room for collection. Delegates are asked to raise your nameplates when requesting the floor. Conference Rooms 3 and 4, which is just on the back of this room, will also be used for contact groups. However, these rooms are equipped with programmable electronic nameplates. Delegates from parties and other governments are kindly requested to consult the Nairobi 2026 meeting page under the header Microphone Numbers for Contact Groups, which provides a list of each country's login code and step-by-step instructions on how to program the electronic nameplates. Please note that only one plate per party or other government can be programmed in the same room, and if the country enters the same code twice, the most recent will override the previous election. It is therefore important for parties to coordinate amongst themselves with regard to who should activate their respective country plate. United Nations organizations, intergovernmental organizations, indigenous people and local community organizations, and major stakeholder groups will be allocated rows in both contact rooms by categories and not by name of organization. Now regarding the side events. Side events will take place at 1:15 PM and 6:15 PM each day. Please consult the online schedule as well as the Monitor and CBD Events app for details. In addition to the schedule for side events, the CBD Events app provides easy access to the meeting schedule and documents, It is available both for Apple and Android devices and can be downloaded at the link you see on the slide. I see it on the slide. Next, regarding Share Your Content tab on the meeting web portal. Using the link, parties and observers are invited to share publications, information materials, event flyers that are relevant to the issues being discussed by the subsidiary body. Next, there will be an NBSAP help desk available under the meeting— during the meeting, staffed by representatives of UNEP, UNDP, and NBSAP Accelerator Partnership. The help desk is located in the open area between 2 conference rooms, so between Conference Room 1 and Thank you. In addition, the Secretariat, in collaboration with UNEP, has organized the help desk to support countries on preparation of the 5th National Report to the Cartagena Protocol and the 1st National Report to the Nagoya Protocol. The support provided includes a practical walkthrough of the Biodiversity Clearinghouse and the ABS Clearinghouse. Now let me offer a few words about our meeting venue. I hope you can see that on the slide. The entrance to the venue is open daily from 7:30 AM until 8 PM. So if there are events after 8 PM, you need to be in the compound by 8 PM. Delegates may exit at the, at the same place which— where from they entered till 10 PM. After 10 PM, the exit is possible, but through the vehicular exit. Delegates are requested to leave the premises within 30 minutes after the conclusion of the last meeting of the day. Food services will be available from 7 AM to 9 PM daily and will be displayed on the screen, the restaurants that are open. Please note that food is not allowed in the meeting rooms. Drinks may be brought in if they are in containers with lids. Finally, dear delegates, I hope this is really finally, as we come together again, I take this opportunity to remind participants of the Code of Conduct in place to prevent harassment at UN system events. And you see it on the screen.

Thank you.

Based on this Code of Conduct, all UN System events are guided by ethical and professional standards, and all participants are expected to behave with integrity and respect toward everyone involved here at SBI 7. We look forward to your kind cooperation, and thank you so much for listening to this monologue.

Thank you very much, Secretariat. I would like now to propose the rapporteur of this meeting. After consultation with the COP Bureau, I propose Mr. Bilal Kitchat of Jordan as rapporteur. I see no objections. Instead, acclamations, so I would like to invite Mr. Kitschat to take a seat at the podium. You're welcome. Before we go to the next item, I would like to suggest that in order to make efficient use of time and to allow more time for discussions, we refrain from making individual statements to thank or congratulate the chair, the host country, or the secretariat. Therefore, I would like to invite the rapporteur to make a statement of thanks on behalf of all the participants so that this can be avoided in individual interventions. Mr. Kitschat, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. On behalf of all Thank you very much. On behalf of all the participants at this meeting, I take this opportunity to congratulate the Chair of the Subsidiary Body and members of the Bureau for their hard work in preparation for SBI 7, and I wish you the best of success for this meeting on behalf of all of us. I thank the Executive Secretary of the Convention and her team for the preparation of high-quality meeting documents and logistics arrangements. I also thank Mr.— Ms. Inger Andersson and the UNIBES staff for welcoming us to their headquarters. And those parties that have provided generous funding to facilitate the participation of representatives from developing countries. I have no doubt that our deliberations will be very productive. Thank you, Chair, for giving me this opportunity to speak on behalf of all participants. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Mr. Kitschat. This brings us to the adoption of the agenda and organization of work. The Executive Secretary, in consultation with the COP Bureau, prepared a provisional agenda for this meeting. It is contained in document CBD/SP/1. And the annotations to the provisional agenda are contained in cbd/sbi/7/1/add1/rev1. I first submit the provisional agenda for adoption.

Aye.

Okay, I see no objections, so the agenda is adopted. Regarding the organization of work, the Secretariat, in consultation with the COP Bureau, proposed the allocation of tasks for the meeting as described in Section 4 and Annex 1 of the scenario note, contained in document CBD/SBI/7/1/add1. I now submit the organization of work for approval. I see no objections, so the organization of work is approved.

I'm sorry.

Oh, I'm so sorry. No, I see that Fiji has asked for the floor. Fiji, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Fiji is delivering this statement on behalf of 14 Pacific Island developing states. Madam Chair, we'd just like to reiterate one point so that this meeting is organized so that we can take part in it in an equitable way. We understand that the Special Voluntary Trust Fund stands at 27% of what the conference itself acknowledged and was needed. We would like to reiterate that Decision 16/28 directs that first priority in allocating participation funding be given to least developed countries and small island developing states, and Decision 16/24 gives this convention agreed procedures for online and hybrid participation. Both were adopted to prevent exactly the exclusion that was just described. We therefore ask in the organization of work for 3 commitments from you, Madam Chair. One, that the contact groups and informals on items of priorities to small delegations not be convened in parallel and that where parallel sessions are unavoidable, that the chair state in plenary which items will run concurrently in advance. Second, that no conference room paper be taken up for negotiation unless than 12 hours after it was issued in all working languages so that delegations can read before being asked to respond on it. And lastly, that the procedures agreed in Decision 16/24 be made available to any delegation whose representative cannot be present so that the absence from the room does not become absence from the outcome. We are here to engage constructively on every item. Our participation is limited by 5 countries out of 14, We therefore want to be precise and accommodative throughout the 9 days so that we can reach consensus in a collaborative spirit. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much. Fiji, just a moment. Thank you very much, Fiji. We will bring your proposals to the Bureau for discussion. Thank you very much. But, well, with that, I would like, well, to propose that we do adopt the organization of work And also, I don't think that this addresses really the text that was there. So the organization of work is approved. Thank you very much. And with that, we conclude agenda item number 2. Distinguished delegates, we will now turn to the substantive agenda items of this meeting. Today, we will address agenda items 3, 5, 4, 6, and 7, in that order, and we have 2 sessions to complete this work. We will now take up our first substantive agenda item, item 3, planning, monitoring, reporting, and review, the global review of collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity framework. An ad hoc scientific and technical advisory group was established to support the production of the global report. I would like now to invite Mr. Ezequiel Benitez from Mexico, the co-chair of the advisory group, to provide a brief update on the work of the group. Mr. Benitez, you have the floor.

Thank you, Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, colleagues. As you all will have seen in the documents presented to this meeting and to SOFSTA 28, an impressive amount of work has gone into preparing the Global Report on Collective Progress in the Implementation of the Framework. The summary, conclusions, and key messages of the report in Document 7.2.1 and a draft decision for the COP in the context of the global review are presented for consideration of SBI 7. The full draft global report is available as document Substa/28/2/add1/ref1. The global report was developed through a party-led process and timeline decided by COP16. The work of the report was done in a very short amount of time. The group met 10 times, once in person, working collaboratively through shared documents and email. 2 peer reviews informed the development of the report, one of the annotated outline approved by SOCTA 27, and one in June 2026 on the first draft. The report has a strong methodological basis and is primarily based on the impressive number of national reports and targets submitted by Parties. It was developed under the guidance of Substant, the ASHTAC, the Subsidiary Body on Article 8, and it was also informed by inputs from Parties, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and the stakeholders that share information through notifications and peer review. It has been an honour for my co-chair, Emily Nicholson from Australia, and I to co-chair this ASHTAC. We also thank the Secretariat for the support, who analysed about 50,000 pages of text to produce the report. I am here, along with many other ASHTAC members, during SBI 7 and can respond to questions that may arise on how the Global Report was developed. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Benitez, and your co-chair, Ms. Emily Nicholson of Australia, and all members of the ad hoc scientific technical advisory group for your hard work and dedication. I would first ask the floor to give a round of applause to the work of the I will now invite the Secretariat to introduce the documents for this item. Secretariat, you have the floor.

Thank you. For item 3, the Secretariat has prepared a document which has symbol SEPSDA/28/2/rev1. Backslash SBI/7/2/1, Rev. 1. The document was produced as a single document for both SEPSTA and SBI, and it provides an update on the progress to produce the global report, including the work of the ASHTEC. It also includes 2 recommendations, the one for SEPSTA and the one for SBI. The one for SBI is the one to be considered this week, which is in Section 5.

Thank you.

SEPSA recommendation L7 will be incorporated into the draft recommendation to be considered by SBI at the current meeting. Note that the document was revised and reissued a few weeks ago following the peer review which closed on June 29th. When it was reissued, the annex was moved to an addendum, which is why you have a new addendum, and this was just to facilitate the editorial process. For your information, the full global report is available as Addendum 3 of SABSTA/28/2. And there's a number of other information documents and relevant documents for this item. This includes the Information Document 17, which is the information on the JEF funding. It includes the It includes the Information Document 22 as well, and it includes many of the information documents that are related to the SAPSTA agenda item on this topic, plus all of the reports of the hashtag are available online.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Secretariat. I note that the document includes text that has already been negotiated by last week and resulted in its L7 document. My plan is that we do not redo the work made by CEPSTA by renegotiating this text. I trust we can all agree on this, colleagues. Colleagues, as noted by the Secretariat, the scenario note contained in document CBD/SBI/7/1/Add2 refers to modalities for the early submission of statements for SBI in Annex II. These modalities were developed to facilitate early preparations for meeting, including the early submission of statements. They were applied on a trial basis at Substa 27. 7 and SBI 6, and subsequently approved by Substa Bureau and the COP Bureau for application to all substantive agenda items at Substa 28 and the present meeting, respectively. The Secretariat issued Notification 2026/55 in June, inviting and encouraging parties and observers to for SBI 7 to participate on a voluntary and informal basis by submitting to the Secretariat written statements for agenda items 3 through 14. The deadline was set at 8 PM local time in Nairobi yesterday, the 3rd of August, 2026. The statements submitted earlier under this agenda item in accordance with the modalities have been published online as they were received at www.cbd.int/meetings/sbi7 under the Statements tab. In addition, the Secretariat has prepared information document SPD/SBI/7/inf/sbipublication.pdf. The Early Submission of Statements. This document lists the 23 submissions received from parties and the 14 statements from observers on Item 3 by the deadline. For ease of reference, the list of parties and observers indicated in the Information Document is also displayed on the slides. Note that the list of observers only includes those that have registered on site, so it may differ slightly from the list on the webpage and in the information document. Given that this modality was intended to be a time-saving measure, the listed parties and observers may wish to refrain from delivering an oral statement, except when necessary to make clarifications to their own statement. statements where necessary. Parties and observers that did not submit written statements during the informal process may wish to request for the floor and submit their written statements as per established procedures. Colleagues, as mentioned earlier, statements submitted during the early submission process were made on a voluntary and informal basis. Therefore, I must ask you whether there are any objections for any Parties or observers listed in the information document to your statements on item 3 to be formally entered on record as statements officially submitted for this agenda item in this meeting. Please raise your hands if you have any objection.

I do not.

I don't see any hands, but I do see 2 parties at my screen. I ask you if this— if you are asking for the floor on this matter or in another matter, China and Bahrain. Okay. China, you have the floor.

Okay, thank you, Madam Chair. China appreciates the progress made by all parties in the first global review under the Convention. China is pleased to note that the positive key findings in the report demonstrate that the KMGBF has stimulated unprecedented global engagement and driven tangible actions across all 23 action targets. These achievements are the result of the joint efforts of all parties and stakeholders. In the meantime, we also recognize that current efforts are still insufficient to achieve our shared goals. In particular, developing countries continue to face significant constraints in terms of funding, technology, and capacity building support. Which hinder their effective implementation of the KMDBF through updated NBSAPs. China believes that the outcomes of the negotiations on this agenda item should provide clear recommendations to COP17 as reflected in the following 3 aspects. First, while candidly identifying gaps First, we should send a positive and inspiring political signal. Second, we should provide information that enables all parties to scale up implementation with full respect for national sovereignty and of different— differing national circumstances. And third, we should ensure that the outcomes of the Global Review consistently adhere to principles of being non-directive, non-punitive, and facilitative, and that no new targets or indicators are established beyond those already agreed. China will engage constructively and cooperate fully with all parties and non-party stakeholders to promote encouraging progress on this agenda item at SBI 7, thereby paving the way for successful COP17. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you all.

Thank you very much, China, and I understand this was your statement on this issue, and I would like now to come back to the issue of entering into record the early submissions of statements. So, I understand there is no opposition from any party or any observer for registering your early submission of statements? Yes? Thank you very much, colleagues. Your statements will be formally entered on record and considered as officially submitted under this agenda item. Now, I would like to turn our attention to statements submitted by observers. I will go through the list presented on the screen one by one. This list only includes observers that have registered on site, as I've said. As I read the list, I will ask the observer organization to raise their hand so that we can confirm that you are in the room. I would then ask parties to kindly press the microphone button if they support the statement made by that observer. When you press the microphone button, press it only once so that the green light stays on until you— we have finished so that we may properly record your support. I will read out the first 3 supporting parties from the—

Larianne has a point of order.

Oh, let me just finish and then I will get back to you. When you press microphone, I will read out the first 3 supporting parties from the speakers list. I do not intend to open the floor at this point. In accordance with the modalities, statements submitted by organizations representing indigenous and local communities have been identified as such on the list. So it seems that Bahrain has a point of order. I will give the floor to Bahrain. Understand that this is regarding a point of order. Bahrain, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In fact, We cannot access the documents on the website. We struggle. We find difficulty in accessing the documents and reading the submissions on the website, and it's difficult for us to check the documents and to review them beforehand. I would like to ask if this problem can be resolved before we move ahead with our agenda items today.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Bahrain. I will give the floor to the Secretariat and I would like to ask if any other party has a problem accessing the documents, could you please raise your hands?

Ray, could you please check if there is a problem in accessing the statements?

Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you very much. If I— I understand there is a Wi-Fi problem, so I would like to propose that we wait Wait for a little bit so that we can— all of us can review the statements made by observers, and we would now skip this step and go to the interventions on substantive interventions on this item, and then we can come back to the support made by you to the observers' statements so that we can continue. Is that okay? Bahrain, Bahamas, can we proceed like that?

Okay.

Thank you very much. Dear colleagues, before I open the floor, I would like to encourage you to keep your statements short and concise and focus on the essential points. I may close the list of speakers as needed, but I will give fair warning before I do so. I will be limiting interventions to 4 minutes for parties speaking on behalf of regions, 2 minutes for individual parties, 3 minutes for indigenous peoples and local communities and major stakeholders groups, and 1 minute for non-parties to the convention and other observers. Microphones will turn themselves off automatically when the speaking time has been reached. I seek your cooperation and indulgence in order to maintain a constructive and focused discussion throughout the meeting. I will remember you— I will remind you that you should please upload the full text of your statement to the website within 1 hour after the close of this meeting. Please note, however, that your key points, especially those that you would like to have reflected in the draft recommendations, should be read out in the room. Kindly note that if any party wishes to have a statement reflected in the report of the meeting, it also must be uploaded in the same manner. Following interventions by observers, I will give—

Thank you.

A brief chance for parties that may wish to comment on or support any specific proposal made by these organizations. I now open the floor for interventions on item 3, beginning with parties speaking on behalf of a regional group. Please request the floor now only if you are speaking on behalf of a regional group.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Okay. I will take the first intervention from Ghana. Understand that it's speaking on behalf of the African Group. Ghana, speaking on behalf of the African Group, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair.

Ghana delivers the statement on behalf of the Africa Group. Chair, the Africa Group recognizes the value of the first global review of collective progress in the implementation of the KMGBF and appreciates the efforts of parties, the Secretariat, and all stakeholders who contributed to this important milestone. We consider this as the beginning of an iterative process that should guide enhanced implementation, provision of adequate means of implementation, and collective action towards achieving the Framework's 2030 targets and the 2050 vision. Chair, the findings of the Global Review provide a clear statement. While the Framework has galvanized unprecedented action, innovation, and collaboration, and noting that encouraging progress has been made in developing revised NBSAPs, national targets, and 7th national reports, implementation is not yet occurring at the pace and scale required to achieve the framework. The Africa Group emphasizes that the implementation gap has at its core a gap in the provision of the means of implementation. Bridging this gap will require ambition to be matched by effective implementation supported by adequate, predictable, and accessible financial resources, capacity building and development, technology transfer, and scientific and technological cooperation. In this regard, we particularly welcome the draft decision's provisions recognizing the need to identify and respond to parties' implementation needs, inviting donors and partners to tailor their support according— accordingly, and the emphasis on ensuring that the findings of the review inform future working on monitoring, strengthening the financial mechanism of the convention, capacity building and development, and technical and scientific cooperation among parties. Chair, the Africa Group also welcomes the proposed work on improving policy coherence through whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches, strengthening national implementation, and reducing reporting burdens through greater alignment of planning, monitoring, and reporting processes across the Rio Conventions and biodiversity-related conventions. These efforts should simplify reporting obligations while enabling parties to focus their limited capacities on implementation. Chair, we support the request to enhance the online reporting tool ahead of the 8th National Reports and the global review process based on lessons learned from the 7th National Reports. These improvements should enhance transparency, facilitate knowledge sharing, and support evidence-based decision-making. Finally, the Africa Group looks forward to constructive engagements towards the adoption of a balanced and implementation-oriented decision that enables and accelerates collective progress towards the goals and targets of the KMGBF. We have made some textual amendments which we have submitted. I thank you, Chair.

Thank you very much, Ghana, on behalf of the African Group. I now see on my screen European Union. Followed by Fiji. European Union on behalf of the European Union and its states, Fiji on behalf of Pacific Seas, I imagine. But I also have Nigeria, and it's not so clear for me Nigeria is speaking on behalf of which regional group. I would like to remind you that we are taking at this time interventions only on behalf of regional groups. Now I will give the floor to the European Union, followed by Fiji. European Union, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I'm speaking on behalf of the European Union and its 27 member states. This statement does not replace our early submissions. It comes in addition to it. The EU and its member states thank the Executive Secretary and the Secretariat for their continued work in supporting parties in the implementation, monitoring, reporting, and review of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework. Effective planning, monitoring, and review are fundamental to ensuring that the framework delivers tangible outcomes for biodiversity and for people. Therefore, the EU and its member states supports paragraph 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, 18, 21, 28a, and 28b in full or in part and suggest amendments to some of these paragraphs to further improve them. Furthermore, the EU and its member states consider it important to include the subtitles of the Yerevan Pathway without changes as they help to increase precision, structure, and readability of the decision. Building on the discussion and the recommendation agreed at SAPSTA 28, we look forward to continuing the constructive engagement on this very important item.

I thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, European Union, and thank you for being concise. I would like now to give floor to Fiji on behalf of the Pacific SIDS. Fiji, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Fiji speaks as Chair of the Pacific Small Island Developing States and on behalf of the 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States. This statement does not replace our written submission but is supplementary to that.

We accept the central finding of this review, Madam Chair, that the world is not on track.

We said so at SAPSTA 28 and we say it again here. Because the honesty of this report is the most valuable thing about it.

What we ask is that this meeting look carefully at what the review can and cannot see.

The report concedes in its own words that a small percentage of Small Island Developing States submitted national reports in time and that our experiences are therefore underrepresented in the analysis. It goes on to find that developing countries especially the least developed countries and small island developing states, are more likely to have reported gaps in the means of implementation. Madam Chair, those 2 sentences are the whole of this report's treatment of our circumstances.

So the evidence base undercounts us, and then the analysis does not go looking for us. Instead, we put it in this meeting plainly that there is a gap in support, and in method, not a gap in commitment. To further, findings speak to us directly. Most parties report that they are not on track on invasive alien species, with prevention focused biosecurity not broadly in place because capacity differs so widely between us. The very gap decision 16/18 was adopted to close. And on Target 8, the highest-scoring target in the entire framework.

The single element— the single element out of alignment is ocean acidification. Last year, almost the whole of the Southwest Pacific recorded its lowest surface ocean pH on record. Madam Chair, we have 4 requests, and we ask that each can be reflected in the text and not in the report of the meeting. One, correct the underrepresentation this report admits to. We ask for an operative paragraph requesting the Executive Secretary to reflect national reports received after the cutoff in an addendum transmitted before Yerevan with the findings of the review caveated accordingly. Decisions 15/6 and 16/32 establish this as a review of collective progress, a review that structurally omits the parties' least able to report on time is not yet a complete account of collective progress and should not be presented to the Conference of the Parties as one.

2, fix the method, not only the finding.

The paragraphs on the 2nd Global Review and on the 8th National Report template must require disaggregation by Small Island Developing States and least developed country status. A finding of underrepresentation that changes nothing about the method is not really a finding at all.

3, retain the means of implementation paragraph in full.

And 4, resource centers— resources centers and name them.

And finally, Chair, Decision 16/17 brought island biodiversity in the standing work of this convention alongside marine and coastal biodiversity. A global review that contains no island finding at all is not yet aligned with that decision, and we ask that the second review be mandated to produce one. Thank you, Chair. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much, Fiji, speaking on behalf of the Pacific SEEDS and SEEDS. If there are no more parties speaking on behalf of a regional group, I would like now to open the floor for parties followed by observers.

Okay.

I see Egypt followed by Nigeria and Zimbabwe. Egypt, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Egypt aligns itself with the statement delivered on behalf of the African Group. Egypt considers this Global Report an important milestone and invaluable learning experience as the first assessment under the enhanced multidimensional approach, it provides a useful evidence base while also offering important lessons for strengthening future review cycles. Egypt wishes to highlight 4 observations in this regard. First, the purpose of the global review should remain focused on assessing collective progress towards the implementation and objective of the Framework. Future reviews should progressively strengthen their ability to assess implementation outcomes and effectiveness, while recognizing that at this early stage it's still too soon to draw conclusions regarding biodiversity outcomes. Second, it's important to distinguish between implementation gaps, reporting gaps, and data gaps. Limited reporting, incomplete indicator coverage, or insufficient data shouldn't automatically be interpreted as limited implementation. Likewise, parties report progress against their national nationally determined targets, which do not necessarily mirror every element of the global target. These methodological considerations should continue to be reflected clearly in future assessments. Third, the report confirms that the principal barriers to implementation are not limited to national action, but also include persistent gaps in the means of implementation, including financial resources, capacity building, technology transfer, technical and scientific scientific cooperation and knowledge sharing. Addressing these barriers should remain a priority, particularly for developing countries, and should be reflected across the Convention work on resource mobilization and implementation support. Finally, the funding— the finding of the Global Review should inform implementation without creating additional reporting burden or new obligations for parties. The priority should be strengthening implementation, facilitate peer learning, improve coherence, across the region.

Thank you very much, Egypt. I will now take the intervention from Nigeria, followed by Zimbabwe and Colombia. Nigeria, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Nigeria aligns itself with the statement delivered by Ghana on behalf of Africa. Chair, Nigeria considers the Global Review an invaluable opportunity to galvanize accelerated action during the remaining years of this decade. However, this process can only achieve its purpose if it provides clear signals on where investments are mostly urgently needed to achieve 2030 targets and goals, accompanied by forward-looking recommendations that help parties address identified implementation gaps. In this regard, Nigeria believes that the discussion should identify 5 practical pathways for focused action in areas where progress is lagging and where interventions can generate the greatest impact across the entire KMGBF. We particularly support stronger recommendations on reforming harmful subsidies and incentives, improving the quality and effectiveness of protected and conserved areas, and mainstreaming biodiversity across productive sectors and spatial planning. Chair, Nigeria further emphasizes that the success of depends on significantly improving biodiversity finance. We therefore call for stronger provisions on reforming incentives harmful to biodiversity, aligning public and private financial flows with environmental commitment, and accelerating implementation of Target 19. We look forward to the adoption of strengthened implementation-oriented decisions that accelerate collective progress progress towards achieving the 2030 target. We'll submit our text in writing. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you very much, Nigeria. I would like now to give the floor to Zimbabwe, followed by Colombia. Zimbabwe, you have the floor.

Thank you very much, Chair, for giving me the floor. Zimbabwe would like to align itself with the statement delivered Thank you very much, Mr. President. I would like to welcome the President of Ghana on behalf of the Africa region. Chair, the Global Report is a key source document for the global review and should serve as an important basis for deliberations at COP17. However, it should not replace the national reports submitted by parties, which remain the primary source of information and data on national implementation. Furthermore, the COP17 decision should reaffirm the implementation of the KMGBF That it should take place in accordance with national circumstances, priorities, capacities, and each country's developmental needs. The decision should also contain clear language calling on parties to accelerate implementation of the framework, particularly through enhanced technology transfer, capacity building, increased predictable and accessible financial flows to developing countries, least developed countries, as well as Small Island Developing States. Chair, the primary purpose of the global review should be participatory, inclusive, and furthermore, the review should provide a sound basis for identifying implementation gaps and recommending practical measures to address them. Finally, Zimbabwe has submitted its proposed textual amendments and reaffirms its commitment to engaging constructively and in good faith throughout the negotiations.

Thank you very much, Zimbabwe. Before giving the floor to Colombia, followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo and Saudi Arabia, I would like now to just say to observers that you will be given the floor afterwards, so if you have asked for the floor, please disengage the microphone right now. Colombia, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Colombia welcomes the work conducted by the Secretariat in preparing the first global report on the Global Biodiversity Framework. We believe this exercise needs to transcend assessment of progress and consolidate itself as a tool to accelerate the implementation towards 2030. Its main value Needs to maintain a balance between what's to be achieved, means of implementation, resource mobilization, capacity building, technical cooperation, governance, and national monitoring systems. These are facilitating circumstances which need to be made more explicit in global review. Second, we believe it's important that the Secretariat strengthen communication of results of the report, in particular the color system used in order to reflect reflects the state of global targets. It's essential to clarify which colors represent an assessment of collective progress in terms of means of implementation and not a qualification of the progress of individual countries. Finally, the global review needs to recognize explicitly the value of national monitoring systems, which have a whole government, a whole society approach, ensuring respect for human rights, the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, women, youth, and other groups in the implementation, monitoring, and presentation of reports. Colombia trusts that the results of this exercise will provide a solid base for decision-making, which will guide COP17 and to accelerate collectively the implementation of our work. Thank you. The mic cut off.

Thank you very much, Colombia. I would like to remind delegates that even though we are pressed By time, we should allow dictation so that the translation— dictation speech so that the translators could keep everything. I would like now to give the floor to the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Saudi Arabia and India. DRC, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Thank you for giving me the floor. The DRC supports the statements made by Ghana on behalf of the African Group. While we welcome the work conducted by the Secretariat, the DRC would like to review in the final draft recommendations all provisions aiming to strengthen inclusivity, exchange of experiences, human rights. We need to encourage parties and other stakeholders, indigenous peoples, local communities, women, youth, and other civil society organizations, private sector, to contribute to and accelerate the implementation of the framework, in particular correcting any current gaps in the implementation. In particular, we need to strengthen collective ambition and means of implementation, improving consistency between policies, the integration of biodiversity, and the mobilization of all stakeholders. We would also like to support any initiative which aims to mobilize more resources for capacity building, technology transfer, and technical and scientific scientific cooperation in order to enable developing countries to achieve the goals of the framework and the convention. Thank you.

Thank you very much, DRC. I would like now to give the floor to Saudi Arabia, followed by India and Kenya. Saudi Arabia, you have the floor.

Thank you so much, Madam Chair. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would like to express its sincere gratitude to the Secretariat for its efforts in organizing this document regarding the global review of collective progress within the framework of the KMGB for biodiversity. We wish to stress the importance of this meeting as a crucial step towards strengthening our collective understanding of the results and challenges for calculating the assistance needs. We'd also like to stress our commitments in keeping with the 2030 National Vision and other initiatives. I am referring to the Green Saudi Initiative to restore impacted areas Within this framework, we have presented our national report for biodiversity and another report which highlights the commitments that we have made. The report should be a collaborative one. It should attempt to fill in the gaps. gaps, rather than trying to move towards an individual assessment of national parties. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Saudi Arabia. I'll now give the floor to India, followed by Kenya. India, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. India welcomes the preparation of the first Global Report on Collective Progress in the Implementation of the KMGBF. Our country recognizes that the Global Review assesses collective progress and should not be interpreted as an assessment of individual parties' performance. While the report finds that the world is not collectively on track to meet the 2030 targets, progress varies significantly across parties and regions. National circumstances, capacities, and priorities should therefore remain central when interpreting the findings. As reflected in India's 7th National Report to the CBD, India is on track to implement all all 23 targets and the 4 goals of the framework. References in the draft decision regarding the lack of progress should therefore reflect the collective global situation and not imply uniform performance across all parties. We would like to highlight that several of our national initiatives integrate approaches that are gender responsive and includes women, youth, and local stakeholders at all levels, including the local communities. For example, our Badass Women management committees and Panchayati Raj institutions are a working model of decentralized biodiversity governance for scaling up community and local government engagement. Further, India's achievement in terms of implementing Target 13 of the KMGVF may duly be reflected as a model for other country parties. India stresses that effective global review requires robust, transparent, and nationally driven monitoring system while supporting further operationalization of the monitoring framework. Additional methodological work is needed for several indicators. Parties must have adequate time to review new metadata and methodologies before their adoption or use in progress assessment. India stresses that predictable and adequate means of implementation under Article 20 of the Convention are essential for developing countries to effectively implement the framework and strengthened national monitoring system. India remains committed to working constructively with all—

Thank you very much, India. I'd like now to give the floor to Kenya, followed by the United Republic of Tanzania and Côte d'Ivoire. Kenya, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Kenya aligns with the statement delivered by the African Group. The comprehensive assessment provides a vital evidence base for our deliberation. However, the findings are sobering. Current efforts remain insufficient to achieve the 23 targets by 2030. This is not a moment of complacency. It is a call to correct course with urgency and honesty. Madam Chair, Kenya identifies 4 critical areas requiring improvement. First, First, on the means of implementation. The gap between ambition and delivery remains the single greatest impediment. While the framework is ambitious, the technical, financial, and capacity resources following— flowing to developing countries are not commensurate. We must translate pledges into predictable, accessible, and sufficient support. Second is on national reporting and data. The global review relies on national reports, yet many developing countries like Kenya face significant constraints in data collection, monitoring, and reporting. We call for enhanced technical and scientific cooperation to strengthen national monitoring systems to ensure that the evidence base for future reviews is robust and representative. Third, on mainstreaming, biodiversity cannot remain a standalone agenda. We need to integrate it across sectors such as agriculture, energy, infrastructure, finance, and across all levels of government. And fourth, on equity and inclusivity, the review must fully capture the contribution of indigenous people, local communities, women, and youth. Their knowledge and action are indispensable, yet they remain unrecognized and under-resourced in implementation frameworks. Madam Chair, collective progress requires collective responsibility. Let us use this review to identify what we must do better and to together. We look forward to working with all parties to develop recommendations for COP17 that are ambitious, actionable, and equitable.

Thank you very much, Kenya. I'd like now to give the floor to Tanzania, followed by Côte d'Ivoire and the Russian Federation. United Republic of Tanzania, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. The United Republic of Tanzania aligns itself with the statement delivered by Ghana, on behalf of the African Group. Madam Chair, Tanzania recognized biodiversity conservation as a national development priority and continue implementing the framework through its revised NB-SAP, ecosystem restoration, sustainable forest and wildlife management, marine and coastal conservation, community-based biodiversity management, and biodiversity mainstreaming across sectors. These efforts span both mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, encompassing globally significant biodiversity hotspots, forests, wetlands, freshwater ecosystems, miombo and savanna, mountains, coral reefs, mangroves, and island biodiversity. However, predictable financing, technology transfer, scientific cooperation, capacity building, and access to biodiversity information remain critical challenges. We therefore call for the strengthening support through Global Environmental Facility, the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund, and other mechanisms aligned with nationally identified priorities. Tanzania further emphasized the need to strengthen national implementation systems, particularly biodiversity monitoring, integrated information management, data interoperability, and cross-sectional coordination. Community-based monitoring, citizen science, and indigenous peoples and local community knowledge should complement scientific monitoring and improve evidence-based decision-making. Madam Chair, Tanzania supports continued improvement of the global review process, enhancement of the online reporting tool, and greater coherence across biodiversity-related conventions to reduce reporting burden while improving data quality and comparability. Future reviews should recognize national circumstances and avoid interpreting data limitations as a lack of implementation. We remain fully committed to working constructively with all parties to towards a balanced, ambitious, and implementation-oriented outcome that is related to achievement of KMGBF framework. I thank you.

Thank you very much, the United Republic of Tanzania. I'll now give the floor to Côte d'Ivoire, followed by Russian Federation and Indonesia. Côte d'Ivoire, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair, for giving me the floor. Fully aligns itself with the statement made by Ghana on behalf of the African Group. For Côte d'Ivoire, this first global review should not be considered as a simple assessment exercise. It should first and foremost be an instrument to guide us, enabling us to accelerate the implementation of the framework, to strengthen the means of implementation, and to improve the effectiveness of national policies to promote biodiversity. In this regard, we fully support the provisions of the draft decision aiming to strengthen national monitoring and knowledge systems and pursuing the operationalization of the Global Monitoring Framework. Côte d'Ivoire's experience shows that the quality of decisions closely depends on the availability of reliable data which are harmonized and regularly updated. We therefore encourage the strengthening of national biodiversity monitoring systems, an improvement of the interoperability of data platforms, as well as the development of national capacities in terms of the production, management, and use of the indicators Côte d'Ivoire believes that the main obstacles identified in the global report can only be overcome thanks to significantly increasing means of implementation. In this regard, we call on development partners, international institutions, and financial mechanisms to increase their support to developing countries in order to enable them to strengthen institutions, institutional capacities, national monitoring systems, and implementation mechanisms. Côte d'Ivoire remains convinced that the success of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework will depend— and the mic was cut off. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Côte d'Ivoire. Dear colleagues, I will soon close the list of speakers. I would like now to give the floor to Russian Federation Followed by Indonesia and Ukraine. Russian Federation, you have the floor.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Madam Chair. The parties to the convention have done extensive work within the framework of COP28 to ensure that the findings of the Global Report are taken into account, and a number of repetitions in the various paragraphs is something that should be deleted. Now, the main value of the Global Report lies in the fact that its preparation identified a number of very important elements for revising implementation priorities, shortcomings in securing means of implementation, and approaches to the use of the monitoring system. Now, within the framework of Sub-7, we would like to stress the following recommendations: Updating the format of the national reports, including to take into account other strategic documents of the various states; updating the requirements of the global report; improving of the online reporting tool on the Convention's website; guarantees for the timely provision of adequate resources and capacity building. We would like to specifically highlight the adoption of a mandatory requirement for the GEF and its implementing agencies to allocate sufficient resources and fully organize the work on preparing the 8th National Report or Communication Report in all countries eligible to receive resources and do this before COP18. This should facilitate the timely preparation of the 8th National Communications. It is very important to now identify the key elements that are necessary before COP18. We again reaffirm the fundamental principle that national documents must be used to assess collective progress. And we'd like to note that the global report, as proposed in the draft recommendations, cannot replace COP decisions or serve as their basis.

Thank you very much, Russian Federation. I will now give the floor to Indonesia, followed by Ukraine and Antigua and Barbuda. Indonesia, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Indonesia highly appreciates the APEC for preparing the first Global Report on Collective Progress under the KMTBF. We consider it a valuable global overview while noting that its findings should be interpreted in light of differing national circumstances, capacities, and stages of implementation. We reaffirm that the review should remain collective, facilitative, non-intrusive, and non-punitive, consistent with the agreed modalities, without ranking parties or creating obligations beyond those agreed under the Convention and the Framework. Indonesia further emphasized that successful implementation depends not only on stronger monitoring but equally on robust means of implementation, including predictable and timely finance, capacity building, access to and transfer of technology, technical and scientific cooperation and knowledge sharing, including through South-South triangular and regional cooperation and effective regional support centers. NDCs support strengthening national monitoring systems in a country-driven manner with adequate support for developing country parties, and considers that priority should be given to building capacity for the effective use of existing headline indicators before introducing additional ones. Indonesia also highlights the value of bringing scientific knowledge together with the traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices of indigenous people and local communities, consistent with national legislation and applicable international obligations. Future work on the monitoring framework could usefully focus on improving usability and interoperability, minimizing additional reporting burdens, and preserving sufficient flexibility for parties with different capacities. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Indonesia. I would like now to give the floor to Ukraine, followed by Antigua and Barbuda and Chile. Ukraine, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Ukraine remains committed to the objectives of the Convention. At the same time, we are compelled to emphasize that the implementation Of this task in Ukraine is taking place under the unprecedented challenge, the armed aggression of Russian Federation against Ukraine, which continues for the 13 years and which since the 24th of February 2022 has grown into illegal and provoke and justify full-scale military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. Russian Federation armed aggression against Ukraine directly destroyed biodiversity. 11,000 cases of environmental damage caused to Ukraine by the Russian aggression have already been recorded, and this number is increasing every day. Around 25% of Ukrainian territory is contaminated with landmines and explosive remnants of, of the war. This threatens wild animals and postpones possible measures to restore nature for an identified future. Implementation of the Convention, and in particular Carmine Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, framework requires from all member states full commitments and responsibility in reaching its targets. In accordance with the resolution of United Nations General Assembly concerning the aggression against Ukraine, our delegation calls upon the international community to continue respecting and supporting the sovereignty and restoration of territorial integrity of Ukraine within the international recognize border-including territory area, including territorial sea, to demand an end to the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against our state, and to contribute to the restoration of Ukrainian biodiversity as part of our shared global responsibility. Ukraine proposed to add point to Para 28 and request the Executive Secretary to organize consideration in a scientific and manner the military factor, factors that negatively affect the biodiversity and provide possibility to reflect military impact in the next report and to prepare—

Thank you very much, Ukraine. I am now closing the list of speakers of parties. I would like now to give the floor to Antigua and Barbuda, followed by Chile and Brazil. Antigua and Barbuda, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We must note with deep concern, as we did at SAPSTA 28, that the Caribbean region is effectively missing from this global assessment. This is directly attributable to a significant shortfall in implementation assistance, a gap which must be urgently addressed. For Antigua and Barbuda, a small island developing state, our environment is the bedrock of our economy and our society. We are fully committed to implementing this framework. However, we face a critical paradox. As a high-income threshold country, we do not qualify for official development assistance. This means we are excluded from the primary financial mechanisms designed to support biodiversity implementation, yet we are held to the same ambitious global targets. We cannot implement the framework without accessible, predictable financial resources. We therefore request 3 specific actions. First, that the final decision on this explicitly recognizes the unique constraints facing Small Island Developing States. Second, that the ATEG on the monitoring framework specifically considers our financial and capacity constraints and develops practical, implementable guidance for nations at our scale. Third, that the provision for the targeted implementation assistance is provided in a timely manner to facilitate our representation in further global reviews. We echo the call for a supplementary or alternative reporting pathway and review track for SIDS and other structurally constrained parties, which places greater emphasis on implementation outcomes, adaptive management, and qualitative narratives, while offering greater flexibility in timelines and formats. We urge this body to take these concerns seriously. For Antigua and Barbuda, the future of our biodiversity depends on the actions taken here. We have no desire to be left behind in this global report. We reiterate that the challenge is not one of a lack of ambition or commitment or—

Thank you very much, Antigua and Barbuda. I will now give the floor to Chile, followed by Brazil, Peru. Chile, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Chile values the first global review as a fundamental tool to strengthen the collective implementation of the coming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Chile recalls that this review reaches the SBI on the strength of the scientific and technical work concluded at CEPSTA 28. Chile values the scientific and technical foundation and stresses the importance of continuing to build on it connectively. This review is not an endpoint, but the basis for shared and sustained action towards 2030. In the SBI, Chile stresses that this period should be oriented toward closing those gaps, prioritizing the actions with the greatest potential for acceleration, and assessing that financial and capacity requirements in a non-prescriptive manner and respective national circumstances. The Global Report is clear that finance, capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation, and technology transfer have increased, but not at the pace required. Chile therefore underlines that accelerating implementation and continuing to mobilize adequate, predictable, timely, and accessible resources for parties, especially developing countries, are two sides of the same task. We value that the draft decision links this outcome to the forthcoming decisions on resource mobilization and capacity building, and we stress that this connection must be honored in full. We stand ready to continue working collectively and constructively as we look ahead of COP17 in Yerevan. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Chile. I would like now to give the floor to Brazil, followed by Peru and Cuba. Brazil, you have the floor.

Madam Chair, while global efforts might remain insufficient to ensure the achievement of the KMGBF, meaningful progress has been achieved. Conclusions should be drawn with caution and take into account both the relatively short implementation period and the fact that information available at this stage remains incomplete. The global review must preserve its collective, party-driven, facilitative, non-intrusive, and non-punitive nature. It should not result in rankings or comparisons among parties. Likewise, gaps in data should not be necessarily interpreted as evidence of inadequate implementation or insufficient commitment, particularly where capacity constraints persist. The Global Report should serve as an important analytical input to the Global Review. At the same time, National Reports NBSAPs and national targets submitted by parties must remain the primary basis for assessing collective progress. Brazil's 7th National Report illustrates the scale of our renewed commitment to biodiversity. It highlights the strengthening of environmental governance, historic reductions in deforestation across all 6 terrestrial biomes, the expansion of protected areas, advances in ecological restoration, stronger enforcement, and the promotion of bioeconomy and innovative financing initiatives, including the Tropical Forests Forever facility. Brazil underscores the importance of maintaining a balanced focus between implementation efforts at the national level and the means of implementation available to developing countries. Enhanced international public finance, capacity building, technology transfer, and scientific and technical cooperation remain indispensable. Many developing countries have already identified clear ambition. What they need is is predictable and adequate resources to implement them into reality in line with Article 20. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Brazil. I would like now to give the floor to Peru, followed by Cuba and the United Arab Emirates. Peru, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Peru believes that the Global Report on Collective Progress and Implementation of the framework is a valuable initial assessment of progress towards achieving the goals and targets, identifying the main gaps and challenges, and guiding efforts necessary to accelerate its implementation. Peru supports the global review process as a mechanism aimed at the continuous improvement of the implementation of the framework. In this regard, we believe it's essential that the conclusions and decisions which are adopted are based or maintain a balance between assessment of progress and strengthening of means of implementation, since the Global Report itself recognizes that these means are still insufficient. Any increase in ambition needs to be accompanied by adequate financial resources, capacity building, technology transfer, and scientific and technical cooperation. Peru reiterates that national targets The review process at the global level should not generate new obligations for reporting or implementation. Finally, a priority for Peru is to strengthen the implementation of the monitoring framework and national biodiversity information systems through strengthening scientific and technical cooperation, the mobilization of financial resources, technical support adapted to the needs of developing countries, and the improvement of the reporting tools for— or the online reporting tool in order to strengthen monitoring, transparency, and the global review process. Thank you very much, Chair.

Thank you very much, Peru. I will now give the floor to Cuba, followed by United Arab Emirates and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cuba, you have the floor.

Thank you very much, Chair. Cuba reiterates its commitments to the targets of the CBD and the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework. In line with these national priorities, we are delighted to inform you that our country has successfully completed the reporting commitments to the Conference of the Parties on the implementation of the Convention, the National Report on the Cartagena Protocol, and the first National Report on the Nagoya Protocol, all in time and with the adequate quality. At SBI 7, Cuba emphasizes the need for urgent implementation and effective implementation of specific articles of the conventions and the Global Framework, in particular increase in international financing by developed countries to developing countries. In the form of new, additional, growing, and easily accessible means of financing. National and international circumstances are challenging for the GEF and the other funds, and these are the main catalytic and innovative means of financing for global biodiversity, which can contribute positively to achieving our goals. Sustainable Development Goals. Cuba calls for a robust new replenishment fund for GEF and a considerable increase of financing available to the Global Biodiversity Fund. This is essential for developing countries alongside other means of implementation such as capacity building and technology transfer. Chair, Cuba rejects the the illegal imposition of unilateral and coercive measures such as economic and trade blockade by the administration of the USA against Cuba for more than 75 years, with a great escalation in recent years, which has a negative impact on the implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity. And the microphone was cut off. Thank you.

Thank you, Cuba. I'll give the floor to the United Arab Emirates and Bosnia and Herzegovina, followed by South Africa. UAE, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. The United Arab Emirates would like to thank the Secretariat for their efforts in the preparation of the Global Report. We do recognize the importance of the global reporting because it facilitates the bridging of the gaps in providing lessons learned and enhances international cooperation. The United Arab Emirates insists that this global review should be based on collective efforts and should be based on individual assessments in considering national events. It is also important to heed national capacities and circumstances, circumstances, as well as the environmental features of the members sits, especially in the arid and semi-arid coastal and maritime areas. It is important to preserve this framework of reporting without any further commitments for reporting. It's also important that any improvements on the indicators should be based on scientific evidence. It should be applicable by the state parties. It is important also to enhance balance between this convention and other relevant conventions based on the voluntary effort by the state parties. It is important that any data or information be attributed to the source and should be based on the data and information provided by the States Parties. Thank you.

Thank you very much, UAE. I would like now to give the floor to Bosnia and Herzegovina, followed by South Africa and Bahrain. Bosnia, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Bosnia and Herzegovina expresses its appreciation and gratitude to the Secretary in preparing the Global Review on Collective Progress in the Implementation of the Key We are pleased to acknowledge the progress made by parties in finalizing and submitting their 7 national reports and updated NBSAP. At the same time, we remain concerned that a number of countries with economies in transition have not yet been able to finalize and submit their NBSAPs and 7 national reports, including Bosnia and Herzegovina. This highlights the importance of ensuring timely and predictable predictable access to enable support so that all eligible countries can effectively participate in the global review. Bosnia and Herzegovina would like to emphasize that due to financial constraints, we have not been in a position to initiate the revision of NBSAP and the 7th National Report. We are only now in a position to begin these processes, which makes it challenging to fully align with the global timeline and reporting the milestones. The experience of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an eligible country demonstrated that delays in accessing Enable Finance can significantly affect the timely preparation of NBSAP and national reports. Looking ahead, predictable and timely support should be ensured for all eligible countries, including countries with economy in transition, so that financial constraints do not become a barrier to meaningful participation in global review processes. Bosnia and Herzegovina particularly welcomes the recognition that implementation gaps are closely linked to the gaps in means of implementation. Adequate, predictable, and timely financial resources, together with capacity building, technical scientific cooperation, and technology transfer, remain essential for effective implementation at a national level. In this regard, we welcome the information—

Thank you very much, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I will give the floor to South Africa, followed by Bahrain and Uganda. South Africa, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. South Africa aligns with the statement delivered by Ghana on behalf of the African Group. South Africa recognizes the Global Report and its key messages as valuable inputs for informing implementation of the framework. However, these findings must be applied with flexibility and interpreted in light of national circumstances, priorities, capacities, and levels of development. The report should serve as a tool to support implementation and should not be used to create new obligations or expectations beyond those agreed By parties under the convention. Chair, South Africa recalls Decision 15/4, which recognizes that implementation of the KMGBF is supported by a package of decisions of equal standing, including those on resource mobilization, capacity building and development, technical and scientific cooperation, digital sequence information monitoring and planning, reporting and review. The outcomes of this process must therefore be considered in an integrated and balanced manner with due regard to all elements necessary for effective implementation. For South Africa, ambition cannot be considered in isolation from means of implementation. In this regard, we support language that ensures the findings of the Global Review on Means of Implementation are fully reflected in the Convention's future work, particularly under Resolution resource mobilization, capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation. We remain concerned that significant implementation gaps persist, largely due to inadequate scale and delayed delivery of support. We caution against placing undue emphasis on coalitions and voluntary initiatives in ways that may imply expectations for universal participation. While such initiatives can complement implementation efforts, they cannot substitute party-driven implementation under the Convention. We remain committed to working—

Thank you very much, South Africa. I will give the floor to Bahrain, followed by Uganda and Somalia, and I would advise observers to please please refrain from asking for the floor because afterwards I will take your interventions as well. So, Bahrain, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Kingdom of Bahrain would like to align itself with all those who welcome the results of the report and the findings of the report. We would like to stress some very important principles. That any invitation to increase levels of ambition and as well as the identification of national targets should be coupled with sufficient financial support. We are a small island developing state. We cannot be burdened by more commitments without sufficient resources, technology, transfer and capacity building. As for monitoring and reporting, we strongly support the alleviation of reporting burden concerning the states parties. These indicators, the indicators especially concerning maritime and coastal indicators, should be flexible and applicable in line with national capacities and circumstances. We would like to reaffirm here that these complicated monitoring and reporting reviews should not cause any hindrance to implementation on the grounds. It is important that we continue to share experiences and data so that we can enhance our data collection and enhance our means of implementation. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Bahrain. I'll now give the floor to Uganda, followed by Somalia and Argentina. Uganda, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Uganda aligns itself with the statement that was made by Ghana on behalf of Africa region. Chair, the Global Review has outlined a number of challenges and gaps that have been identified, and these include means of implementation, financial constraints, human capacity, capacity building, technical and scientific cooperation, technology transfer, data monitoring aspects, knowledge gaps, information infrastructure, and institutional limitations, among others. Uganda calls for elements of the draft recommendation to address all these gaps and challenges, and particularly, Chair, the adequate and predictable means of implementation, that is financial resources, capacity building, and technology transfer. Uganda calls— also calls for issues identified in the key messages to be addressed. in order to enhance implementation of the KMGBF. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you very much, Uganda. I'll now give the floor to Somalia, followed by Argentina and Armenia. Somalia, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Following a statement made by African Group, the Global Review provides an important opportunity to assess not only our collective progress but also the practical challenge that countries face in implementing the Common Material Global Biodiversity Framework. For Somalia, biodiversity is fundamental to food security, livelihood, climate resilience, and sustainable development. We have made steady progress by updating our national MBSAP as well as Cartagena Protocol on 57 national reports, strengthening national coordination mechanism, initiating the biodiversity finance initiative, and integrating biodiversity into the national development planning. However, our experience demonstrates that implementation remains the greatest challenge. Limited financial resources, biodiverse data, and access to technology continue to slow progress for countries affected by climate change and fragility. These challenges require sustainable international support, so Mali believes that the global review should go beyond measuring progress and focus on identifying practical actions to accelerate implementation. This includes improving access to biodiversity finance and strengthening national capacities, promoting technology transfer, and supporting country-led implementation based on national priorities. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Somalia. I would like now to invite Argentina, followed by Armenia and Uruguay. I will give the floor last for the Russian Federation because you have already asked for the floor. So Argentina, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. Argentina believes that work of this body is to consider the progress made. And its compliance is not optional, it's a mandate. Along the same lines, Target 19 of the Global Framework strengthens this need in recognizing the importance of mobilizing adequate, predictable, and accessible resources in order to achieve its goals. The lack of resources does not just limit the capacity to implement actions needed, but also institutional capacities in order to to, again, collect information, conduct monitoring, and report. This has direct consequences, of course, on the quality of global diagnostics, which are legitimate. Developing countries face constraints in order to produce and report information, and as a result, global reports reflect in an incomplete manner national realities of these countries. Finally, we highlight the need for the review to adequately reflect national priorities and capacities. In this regard, we will send all this in writing and send textual modifications to the report in writing. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Argentina. The Secretariat has informed me that the translators are having a difficult time translating, interpreting, because you haven't uploaded your statements previously. So if we could please comply with their wish for having the text before them so that they can also—

Thank you.

translate and interpret in a very efficient way. I would like now to give the floor to Armenia, followed by Uruguay. Armenia, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The first global review represents a major milestone in the implementation architecture of the Convention and the KMGBF. It demonstrates the collective commitment of the parties and other stakeholders to evidence-based action, providing for the first time a picture of where we collectively stand, highlighting the areas where progress is encouraging and identifying where greater efforts are urgently needed. We welcome the draft recommendation as a solid basis for translating the findings of the Global Report into practical action. The true value of this exercise will ultimately be measured not only by the quality of the assessment, but by the ability of the accelerator— acceleration of implementation. Implementation on the ground. Hence, we welcome the proposed Year of Action pathway on accelerating the implementation of the KMGBF to help identify practical ways of achieving all global targets while prioritizing action where collective progress is most needed. The COP17 is bound to serve as a critical turning point for the implementation of the KMGBF, where we will collectively identify clear and meaningful pathways to turn from commitments into action, from aspiration into measurable results for biodiversity, while remaining laser-focused on our critical objective of halting and reversing biodiversity loss and returning nature back to, to the track of sustainability. Armenia, as the incoming presidency of COP17, looks forward to working collectively with all parties and stakeholders to continue fostering a spirit of compromise, mutual respect, and consensus to achieve a meaningful outcome at SBI 7. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Armenia. I would like now to give the floor to Uruguay. Uruguay, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uruguay reaffirms its commitment to the targets of the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework and welcomes this global review process. We share the concerns expressed by various parties in relation to existing gaps for implementation, in particular for developing countries. It's very important that the diagnostic takes into account the effective availability of means of implementation. First of all, we need to better understand the causes of this gap, distinguishing whether it corresponds to limitations in terms of financing, technical and institutional capacities, access to technology, difficulties in implementation, or other factors. We support an acceleration of implementation, which goes hand in hand with adequate means of implementation in order to achieve our goals. In addition, we in particular highlight the need to continue strengthening scientific knowledge in order to ensure decision-making which is informed and to support the design of more effective means of action. We support efforts aimed at reducing the burden of reporting, and we urge an improvement in coherence and coordination between CBD and other MEAs. Finally, we believe it's important to ensure consistency between international instruments on biodiversity, biosafety, access to genetic resources, phylogenetic resources, climate change, and sustainable production, avoiding duplication or uncertainties which could affect research, innovation, and the development of sustainable systems. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Uruguay. I will now give the floor to the Russian Federation. Russian Federation, you have the floor.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Distinguished colleagues, we would like to exercise our right of reply in response to the false accusations made by the Ukrainian delegation. We consider it necessary to emphasize that these allegations Are politically motivated and are not supported by any credible evidence and are not related to the agenda item under considerations. Such allegations are speculative and are intended to discredit Russia during today's meeting. They are not only unfounded but also devoid of legal substance. The environmental situation in the region cannot and should not be defined. Defined by unilateral claims. On the contrary, Ukraine's actions have clear transboundary consequences for biodiversity. This includes, uh, in particular the repeated use of weapons with indiscriminate effects, including cluster munitions, which leave extensive areas contaminated with heavy metals and toxics. Explosive remnants and pose a direct threat to biodiversity. The use of such weapons has been documented by international sources. Russia has consistently proceeded from the need to protect the civilian population and to minimize environmental damage. We call for an end to the use of environmental issues for political purposes. We call upon all delegations to respect the agreed agenda, adhere to the mandate of the Convention and its subsidiary bodies. Thank you.

Thank you, Russian Federation. I will now give the floor to Ukraine. Ukraine, you have the floor.

Thank you. Once again, we have just heard another calm line inscribed at fair. Tale from the representative of the Russian Federation. Instead of taking responsibility for its war of aggression and the destruction it has brought to Ukraine, Russia continues to spread lies, distort facts, and shift the blame onto its victims. Such cynical attempts to manipulate reality have become a hallmark of Russian diplomacy. This meeting should not be missed by the Russian disinformation. The facts are clear. It's Russia's war of aggression that has caused catastrophic damage to Ukraine's people, environment, and biodiversity. No amount of propaganda can rewrite this reality or shield Russia from accountability. We call on all member states to reject this information, uphold international law, and ensure full accountability for the imminent human and environmental Thank you, Ukraine.

Colleagues, I would like now to come back to our appreciation of the early submission of statements by observers. Can I do that? Have you been able to review the statements made by observers?

Yes, we have. Yes.

Okay. I see there is no opposition to that right now, so I would like to see again, please, the list of observers that have submitted their statements on the screen. Could I please have this?

It's open.

Oh, it's not here for me. I'm sorry.

Okay.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. As I told before, I will read the list And I will ask the observer organization to raise their hand so that we can confirm that you are in the room, and then I will ask parties to kindly press a microphone button so that we have the whole list of supporters for this statement. However, I will read out only the first 3 supporting parties so that we don't have to—

Okay.

to spend a lot of time with that. And I do not intend to open the floor at this point. And of course, the list of supporters will be published, so it will be known. With that, I will begin. First, the Alliance of Biodiversity— Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT.

Thank you.

Yes, they are here. Do I see support in the room for their statements? Yes, I see the— I acknowledge the United Kingdom, Fiji, the European Union, and several others. The list will be published. Thank you very much. I would like now to acknowledge organization number 2, BirdLife International. Are you in the room? Yes, yes, I see BirdLife International, and I see support as well. So I see that Egypt, Tunisia, and Côte d'Ivoire are supporting besides others. And now I would like to ask Afko Maksei Keretaro on behalf of CBD Humans Caucus Is in the room? Are they? Yes, they are in the room. Thank you very much, colleagues. Do I see any support for the CBDU-Human Caucus? Yes, I see Cuba, Colombia, and the DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo. I will slow a little bit because we have to capture all the supporters. So, yeah. Okay, thank you very much. I now see organization number 4, CBD Alliance, Friends of Earth. Are you in the room? Oh, yes. Yes, thank you very much. And I see—

I'm here.

Parties who support the statement made by the CBD Alliance? Yes, I see Egypt. Uganda. Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. Also, organization number 5, the International Indigenous Forum. On biodiversity, IPLCs. So I see a party that are supporting Colombia, the DRC, Panama. Yes. Yes, I see that list is— okay. Thank you very much. And now organization number 6, the Global Youth Biodiversity Network.

Yes.

Are you on the floor?

Yes, thank you very much.

I see that you are on the floor. I see that we have support from Brazil. Okay, so I see that we have support from Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. Thank you very much. Organization number 7, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Are you on the floor?

Yes, thank you very much.

I see lots of support, so I will read the first 3: Colombia, Mexico, and Congo. Thank you. Organization number 8, the Rainforest Action Network. Are you on the floor?

Here?

Yes, thank you, thank you very much. I see that Brazil supports and Congo, thank you, and Comoros as well. Now, organization number 9, the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, are you in the room?

Oh yes, thank you very much.

Do I see any support?

Yes.

I see Fiji. I acknowledge Fiji, United Kingdom, and Brazil. Thank you. Thank you very much. I also see the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, CITES, the Secretariat of CITES. I see several countries that support. I acknowledge Switzerland, Cuba, and Gabon. Thank you very much. And now the Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. I see lots of support as well, so I acknowledge Switzerland. The— oh, yes, I'm sorry. No, but are you in the room?

Yes.

Yes, thank you very much. And I see Switzerland, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. Thank you. Thank you very much. I also see the United Nations Development Programme. Are you in the room? UNDP?

Yes.

Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. I see support from Equatorial Guinea, Cuba, and Tajikistan. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. Organization number 13, Women for Biodiversity. Yes, they are in the room. Thank you. And I acknowledge the support from Uruguay. the United Republic of Tanzania, and Mexico. Thank you very much. Organization number 14, WWF International, are you in the room? Yes, thank you, thank you very much. I see also support from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Kenya. Thank you. Thank you, among others. Yes, thanks. Yes. So we have closed the list of support for the early submission of statements made by observers. I would like now to come back to interventions and open the floor for observers. So observers that are here and wish to To make an intervention, please ask for the floor. Thank you very much. Just a moment. And I'm sorry— oh, yes, no, it's already corrected. Just a moment. I would like to remind that observers have 3 minutes, so the IPOCs and major stakeholder groups, but organizations have only 1 minute. So I would first ask only IPOCs and major stakeholders groups to ask for the floor right now. Other organizations, please refrain from asking for the floor right now. Thank you. Thank you very much. So I would like now to invite youth, and please identify yourself before— oh, yes, you have a point of order? Nigeria? Please, the microphone to Nigeria.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for the floor. Just a point of order here. When you read the CITES early submission, you didn't ask if they were in the room, and we were not sure if a representative of CITES raised their hand in this room, just to be sure that we capture that correctly, if they are in the room or not. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Nigeria. I apologize for that. Yes, they are in the room. Thank you. Thank you. So I would like to give the floor now to youth, and please identify yourself before speaking. Thank you.

Thank you, Chair. I'm speaking on behalf of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, which serves as the international coordinating platform for youth participation in the Convention on Biological Diversity. We bring the voices of more than 70 national and regional chapters carrying out impactful youth-led efforts to implement the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework and address biodiversity loss. In this critical period to review collective progress in implementation, we stress that what biodiversity demands is not simply implementation. It is implementation that is more effective and more equitable, and it is implementation that intentionally disrupts disrupts the status quo and the business as usual that is causing biodiversity loss. We highlight that the implementation, finance, and knowledge gaps persistently faced by the CBD and identified in the Global Report are in fact rooted in a deeper justice gap that must be addressed. To address the justice gap, we must collectively act in several directions. We must address the direct drivers of biodiversity loss by addressing the destructive sectors and actors and by protecting environmental defenders who stand on the front lines against them. We must follow a human rights-based approach, intergenerational equity, and gender responsiveness to guide our actions. We must ensure space, recognition, and support for Indigenous Peoples, local communities, women, and youth as distinct rights holders, key implementers, and as among the groups most disproportionately impacted by biodiversity loss, and we must ensure that resources are flowing to developing countries and to communities on the ground. In line with reflecting and addressing the justice gap that underpins current challenges in implementation, we have submitted text proposals, and we thank parties for their support as negotiations progress. Thank you very much, Chair.

Thank you, uh, very much, GYBN. Um, I now I see the women, CBD Women's Caucus, asking for the floor. You have the floor, followed by the IIFB, Indigenous Peoples. And I will close the floor for IPOCs and major stakeholder groups, so if you have not asked for the floor, please do now. will do it now. So CBD Women Caucus, you have the floor. Thank you.

Thank you, Chair. I'm speaking on behalf of the CBD Women's Caucus and its over 900 members. We thank parties that expressed support for our submitted statement. This is to highlight that our revised statement was to better align with the outcomes of the SAPSTA negotiation, with the confidence that the contributions solutions, experience, and knowledge of indigenous people and local communities, people of African descent, women, and youth are core part of effectively and equitably addressing the gaps, challenges, and barriers in implementation identified in the Global Report. The first Global Review must become a catalyst for accelerated implementation of the Kunming-Montréal Global framework, not simply an assessment of progress. Global review, together with the midterm review of the Gender Plan of Action, should guide future implementation to ensure accelerated collective progress towards a lasting and equitable transformative change. We remain available to support parties in any way that may be helpful throughout the negotiation. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Thank you very much, CBD Women Caucus. I would like now to give the floor to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. IIFB, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. I speak on behalf of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity. The IIFB underlines the importance of ensuring that all processes on planning, monitoring, reporting, and review are aligned with Section C, Hall of Society and Human Rights-Based Approaches, as Key Message 5 of the Global Report notes. We are not merely other actors, and CBD documents have consistently included the language Indigenous Peoples and local communities. We consider any efforts to omit explicit reference to us as rights holders to be a We urge parties to use the traditional knowledge indicators, including headline indicators 22.1 on land use change and land tenure in the traditional territories of indigenous peoples and local communities, and 9.2, the percentage of the population in traditional occupations, and to make use of related disaggregations. Indigenous peoples and local communities have for generations monitored the health world over communities and territories. The CBD has recognized the value of community-based monitoring and information systems, but more action is needed to strengthen mechanisms for its inclusion in national and global reporting. We further urge parties to move beyond consultation and actively seek the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples, local communities, women, youth, and other rights holders in the revision and implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans, as well as in the preparation of national reports. Recognizing the rights and invaluable contributions of indigenous peoples and local communities, women, and youth is crucial. Let us ensure monitoring tools and processes capture the biocultural diversity of our territories and the realities of those working on the front lines of biodiversity action. We invite you to support our textual suggestions which are included in our advance submission. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you very much, IIFB. Okay, thank you very much. I acknowledge now NGOs. Please identify yourself. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Deva Lingam. I'm from Friends of the Earth Malaysia, a member of CBD Alliance. We have submitted a statement statement on this agenda item, and I would like to supplement it with a few key points. The global review process unfortunately does not address the underlying structural root causes of biodiversity destruction, which is an economic and development model that consistently places the profit of a few over peoples and our planet. Unless the main structural drivers of biodiversity destruction and impediments to implementation, such as corporate capture, sovereign debt burdens, austerity policies, and tax injustices, are addressed, transformative change will not be possible. Developing countries hold most of the world's biodiversity and bear the greatest burden of action, but developed countries bear overwhelming historical and continued responsibility for global ecological breakdown. Equitable implementation of the KMGBF requires that this unequal burden and responsibility is recognized and operationalized in the recommendations of the Global Review, and in particular that developed countries must be required to fulfill their obligations to provide financial resources and other means of implementation to developing countries. The Global Review has lacked a formal process and mechanism. To ensure that the global review process is genuinely effective in reversing biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, we urge SBI 7 to develop and adopt recommendations to create an inclusive, participatory review process with clear timelines and modalities, including regional dialogues to identify systemic challenges and real Crucially, these processes must be equitable and be underpinned by strengthened means of implementation, including adequate and accessible financial resources, as well as technical and capacity-building support. This is essential for developing countries to participate fully, effectively, and on equal footing, thereby enabling the scaling up of ambition and action necessary to achieve achieve the 2030 biodiversity targets. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much. CBD Alliance, I understand that your statement, it's not really supplementary, but it's only restating, and there is already support for that. I will now close the floor for the intervention of IPLCs and major stakeholders group, and I will open it for other organizations, and the organizations will have 1 minute. So if you have already asked for the floor, please. Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. So I will give the floor to the IUCN. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Chair. The purpose of the Global Review is not only to take stock, but to inform the adjustments in implementation that are needed to implement and achieve the GBF. This should be reflected across all agenda items through action-oriented and concrete recommendations. To COP17, especially as related to means of implementation, as we heard recently. One key message from the Global Report is that the GBF cannot be achieved without the meaningful engagement of all actors other than national governments. Yet limited reporting on their contribution— on contributions weakens accountability and our understanding of collective progress. IUCN urges parties to extend an invitation to non-state actors to support efforts to address all key messages from the report, from race— I'm sorry.

Thank you very much, IUCN. I will give the floor to UNESCO. UNESCO, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. UNESCO congratulates all delegates and the Secretary on the successful conclusion of substantive meeting, and we look forward to contributing to the discussion of SBI. UNESCO first welcomes the recognition in the Global Review of Collective Progress of the contribution made by UNESCO and its member states, including through aligning policy framework, the Hangzhou Strategic Action Plan for the Man and the Biosphere Program, and the use of UNESCO-designated sites such as biosphere reserves and World Heritage sites in advancing biodiversity conservation as OECMs. To help closing the remaining gaps identified by the report, UNESCO remains committed to supporting parties in translating global commitments into action on the ground through its unique mandates in disciplinary work in linking science, education, culture, and indigenous knowledge especially. Allow me to highlight—

I'm so sorry. Thank you very much, UNESCO. Of course, we will have the opportunity to hear you also later on, I hope. I see also microphone 242, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, IPOCs. Please identify yourself.

Hi, this is Rosalind with actually the California Global Biodiversity Alliance and California Environmental Voters, an NGO. We welcome the Global Review of Collective Progress, but we've noted that the implementation role and activities of subnational and local governments, as well as their stakeholder partners, should be more strongly represented in the review, and we'd like them better acknowledged and integrated into— their commitments better integrated into the Global Review going forward, and for the planning and monitoring work that they do to be

Thank you very much. I don't see any other requests for the floor. Yes. So thank you, delegates, for your useful comments and suggestions. On many issues, we note major areas of convergence, but we will require further discussion. Thank you very much. I do— I therefore propose to establish a contact group with the following mandate. The mandate of the contact group is the entirety of the draft recommendation, leaving aside the recommendation from Substat 28 negotiated last week. I will be very clear about it. When I say that we are not renegotiating, what has been negotiated during Subset 28, I mean that we are not touching the paragraphs, but we are also not touching issues related to the technical and scientific cooperation aspects of the recommendation. We are here at SBI, and we should focus on implementation issues. So, please, abide by this mandate. The contact group will be co-chaired by Sven Kruidt from the Netherlands and Sevenda Michael from Fiji. Thank you very much for your willingness to participate and coordinate this important contact group. And of course, with the support of the Secretariat, I will produce a non-paper for discussion by the Contact Group. As this is the first Contact Group to be established, allow me to present the principles that will apply to all meetings of Contact Groups. So, as stated by the Secretariat, Contact Group sessions will last up to 3 hours. They can meet from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., from 3:00 to 6:00, and to 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. No contact groups will be held in parallel to a plenary session. No more than 2 contact groups will be held in parallel. Although for the contact group of PMRR, this will be an exception. This will be a standalone contact group. And when it meets, not other contact groups any kind of initiative will be scheduled. So this— we are following the same procedure that has been adopted during CEPSTA 28 as well. Contact groups are open to participation by all parties. Other governments and observers will also be able to participate unless otherwise decided by the chair, by me, or by the co-chairs.

Thank you.

The usual practice and rules will apply to participation of observers. They may speak at the discretion of the co-chairs. Any substantive proposal from an observer must be supported by at least one party. In any contact groups, please focus the work on the operative paragraphs. We are not— we are adopting the decision made by the COP Bureau. So here in SBI, we are not dealing really with preambular paragraphs, only operative paragraphs. And also, please refrain from revisiting accepted COP decisions. Agreed text must be followed.

Thank you.

Please, let's keep with our decision to not present or discuss preamble paragraph. Please note that audio and video recording during contact groups is strictly prohibited. Please check the monitors or the online schedule for the time and place of the meeting of the contact group. Tonight, we will convene the first contact group on PMRR, so I'm already announcing it right now. I wish to remind delegates that you ensure to have uploaded the full text of your interventions no later than 1 hour after the close of this session. I don't know if there are— Any further requests for the floor? I don't see none. Well, we still have some minutes, so if we could please bear with me, we still have like 10, 12 minutes, so I would like to introduce the next agenda item. It's item 5, digital sequence information on genetic resources. We are just changing. Thank you. Since the work on the review methodology was undertaken by the steering committee of the multilateral mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information, including the KALi Fund. I would like now to invite Ms. Nanekon Nicholas from Antigua and Barbuda, co-chair from the members of the committee representing the parties to the convention, to take the floor. I would like now to ask microphone I will now give the microphone to Antigua and Barbuda, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In paragraph 29 of the Annex to Decision 16/2, the Conference of the Parties decided that a review of the effectiveness of the multilateral mechanism and its CALI Fund should take place at its 18th meeting and every second subsequent meeting after this. And tasked the steering committee of this mechanism to develop a methodology for this review. As such, the committee discussed this work and its approach, agreed on a concept note at its second meeting in September 2025, considered a draft methodology at its third meeting in April 2026, and finalized it shortly after. I am therefore delighted to present document CBD/SBI/7/5/add2, which presents this methodology for the review of the effectiveness of the multilateral mechanism, including the KALI Fund, for the consideration of this body. I wish to thank all the members of the steering committee for their involvement in this work and to the interim secretariat for the invaluable support and Thank you very much, Mrs.

Nicholas, and congratulations to the steering committee for their work. I would like now to invite the Secretariat to introduce the documents for this item. Secretariat, you have the floor.

Thank you, Chair. In accordance with Decision 16, The Secretariat has prepared document CBD/SBI/7/5 on digital sequence information on genetic resources. This document contains a report on the progress of the tasks to be considered directly by the Conference of the Parties at its 17th meeting, which include the combined study on contribution rates, including implications for revenue generation and economic competitiveness. And on national and international standards for the identification of the small, medium, and large entities; the report of the ad hoc technical expert group on allocation methodology; and the report of the steering committee of the multilateral mechanism for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources, including the KALI Fund. This is followed by the key elements for each of the activities being presented to the subsidiary body on implementation. These are the potential additional modalities of the multilateral mechanism, the options for making digital sequence information on genetic resources publicly available and accessible in a transparent and accountable manner, and the methodology for the review of effectiveness of the multilateral mechanism. and its Kali Fund. Elements of a draft recommendation are presented in this document and put before this body for its consideration. Additionally, this body has at its disposal a second addendum document in addition to the one presented by the Steering Committee. This is CBD/SBI/7/5/2017.

Thank you.

Add 1, the executive summary of the study commissioned on tools and models, such as databases, for making digital sequence information on genetic resources publicly accessible in a transparent and accountable manner. Lastly, the subsidiary body also has before it the 2 syntheses requested in paragraph 6 and the full study pursuant to paragraph 6 in Decision 16/2, which are presented as information documents CBD/SBI/7/INT 14, 9, and 15 respectively. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you very much, Secretariat. Colleagues, since we should not abuse the time of our interpreters. I would like now to close the session. Of course, I will ask the Secretariat for any announcement. Yes, I see that the parties that have asked for it follow. So we are now adjourning this session, and I don't know if the Secretariat would like to make some announcements. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So before, before the lunch break, I wish I would like to remind delegates that the Secretariat, in collaboration with the World Bank, is organizing an information session on Nature Finance 101. This session is part of a series of technical briefings organized by the Secretariat to provide delegates with background information on issues relevant to implementation of the GBF, and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions. The session will be held today at 1:15 PM. So let's say in 5 minutes to 2:30 in conference room number 1, and a light lunch will be provided. All interested delegates are welcome to attend. We will meet back here at 3:00 PM, so please be on time. And then the contact group on PMRR will meet at 7:30 PM this evening. Please keep checking the screen for live updates. Wish you a nice lunch break.

Thank you.

Thank you.