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Every two years, the Conference of Parties (COP) for Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meets to make decisions about the implementation of the Convention. In between these gatherings of the parties, an open-ended intergovernmental technical advisory body, known as the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) meets to generate recommendations that become the key discussion and decision points for the subsequent COP. The 21st SBSTTA meeting will be at the home of the Secretariat and will directly influence COP 14 in December 2018 where health and biodiversity will be one of four priority issue areas. …