The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15), along with the Meetings of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (MOP-10) and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (MOP-4), reconvened in Nairobi, Kenya from October 19 to 20, 2023, to address pending items from the meetings in Montreal last December.
This resumed second part of CBD COP-15 set a remarkable record as the longest meeting in the Convention’s history, spanning over three years, taking place in China and Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unique circumstances during the negotiations in Montreal, which led to the historic adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), had hindered the completion of the agenda. In the two days of concurrent sessions in Nairobi, delegates tackled procedural matters such as the election of officers, the adoption of the second part of the CBD COP 15 report, and the formal closure of CBD COP 15.
Lostisland was represented at the meetings by Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui, the Honorary Consul to Nigeria.