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Earth Negotiations
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Fourth Meeting
of the Conference of the Parties serving as Meeting of the
Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
12-16
May 2008| Bonn,
Germany
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Highlights
for Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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COP/MOP 4 delegates met in working group and contact group
sessions all day. Working Group (WG) I continued discussing
socioeconomic considerations and addressed notification
requirements. WG II considered risk assessment and risk
management, subsidiary bodies, financial mechanisms and
resources, public awareness and participation, assessment and
review, and monitoring and reporting. The budget group met in
the morning and afternoon and the contact group on liability
and redress met at lunchtime and in the evening.
Above photo: View of the Contact Group on Budget.
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WORKING GROUP I:
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SOCIOECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS:
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SOUTH
AFRICA
called for guidance for assessing socioeconomic
impacts.
Above photo: Maria Mbengashe (South Africa) |
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BOLIVIA
stressed the need to take into account impacts on
human health, indigenous peoples and traditional
knowledge.
Above photo: Georgina Catacora Vargas (Bolivia) |
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| NOTIFICATION
REQUIREMENTS:
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MALAYSIA
supported establishing a subsidiary body which should
also address notification requirements.
Above photo: Datuk Fatima Raya Nasron
(Malaysia) |
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PHILIPPINES
called for clarifying responsibilities regarding prior
risk assessments by exporting countries.
Above photo L-R: Reynaldo Ebora and Ambassador
Delia Domingo-Albert (Philippines) |
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WORKING GROUP II
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| RISK
ASSESSMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT:
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EL
SALVADOR
supported organizing more regional workshops and
training.
Above photo: Jorge Ernesto Quezada Diaz (El
Salvador)
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CANADA
suggested improving guidance and information on risk
assessment and risk management.
Above photo L-R: Paul Bailey and Rachel
Geddy
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CODEX
ALIMENTARIUS encouraged the wide use of its
standards to ensure fair standards for human
health.
Above photo: Noriko Iseki (Codex
Alimentarius) |
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The
AFRICAN GROUP called for enhanced capacity
building to enable the use of existing
resources relating to risk assessment and
management.
Above photo: David Hafashimana
(Uganda) in consultaion with Hartmut
Meyer (Germany) |
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IPPC
emphasized the need to increase awareness of
its standards and demonstrate their
relevance at the national and international
level.
Above photo: Brent Larson (IPPC) |
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| CONTACT
GROUP |
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| LIABILITY
AND REDRESS:
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photo: View of the packed room at the Contact Group
on Liability and Redress |
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Above photo L-R: Co-Chairs Rene Lefeber
(Netherlands) and Jimena Nieto (Colombia)
with support from Kathryn Garforth (CBD)
and Lyle Glowka (CBD) |
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BUDGET:
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Budget
Group Chair Sem Shikongo (
Namibia
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(center)
invited delegates to comment on an indicative list
of budget implications of the decisions discussed in
the working groups, to be presented in plenary on
Wednesday.
Above photo L-R: Michele Rattray
(CBD), Chair Sem Shikongo (Namibia) and Charles
Gbedemah (CBD)
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| Above
photo: View of the afternoon session of the Contact
Group on Budget. |
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COP/MOP
4 SNAPSHOTS:
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Related Links
CBD
Secretariat
Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety Web page
CBD
COP/MOP4 official website
COP/MOP4
Meeting Documents
Summary
of major issues
International
Day for Biological Diversity
Global
Biodiversity Outlook
Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment
Countdown
2010 initiative
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