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Opening Plenary:
Laurens-Jan
Brinkhorst, Minister of Agriculture, Nature Management and
Fisheries of the Netherlands (right), welcomed delegates to The Hague.
He stressed the need for specific initiatives and funding,
timetables and technology transfer, as well as for synergies
between environmental conventions and other international fora.
COP-5 President
Joseph Kamotho, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of
Kenya (below), noted inter-sessional progress in the development of a
Strategic Plan and in ABS, called for rapid ratification of the
Biosafety Protocol and highlighted the CBD’s participatory
approach with regard to indigenous and local communities and
stakeholders. participants elected Geke
Faber, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature
Management and Fisheries of the Netherlands, as COP-6 President.
Participants elected Geke
Faber, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature
Management and Fisheries of the Netherlands, as COP-6 President.
Faber
highlighted the necessary shift from policy dialogue to
implementation and from conservation to sustainable use. She
stressed work on genetic resources, ABS, forests and the
Strategic Plan. She also highlighted the importance of a
parallel youth conference.
Klaus
Töpfer, Executive Director of UNEP, highlighted the relevance
of the upcoming World
Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), and emphasized
targeted and timetable-oriented activities (Type I) and
collaborative activities of stakeholders to implement past and
future decisions (Type II). He
said that COP-6’s deliberations should be strengthened by the
planned multi-stakeholder dialogue, especially with regard to
ABS, and by the high-level ministerial segment. He highlighted
the pressing need to replenish the GEF.
Hamdallah
Zedan, CBD
Executive Secretary, noted the link between biodiversity loss,
economic conditions and social injustice. He underscored: the
importance of the draft Bonn guidelines on ABS; forest
biodiversity; the massive damage caused by invasive species; and
the Strategic Plan’s potential to help focus and prioritize
CBD’s work. He said the CBD needs to seize the opportunity
provided by the WSSD to draw attention to the interlinkages
between biodiversity, sustainable development and poverty
eradication.| The Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties commenced with a multimedia spectacle depicting the many facets of biodiversity. | |
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