Participation in the 15th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice in Montreal, Canada. Several Ecoropa members were involved in organizing the daily CBD Alliance strategy meetings of Civil society organisations, editing the NGO newsletter ECO, and co-organizing side events on Synthetic Biology with the ETC Group, Friends of the Earth and Econexus, and Financial Mechanisms with EcoNexus. (CvW, RS, HP, AL)