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7th CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (COP-7) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 9-20 February 2004
Highlights
for Tuesday 10 February 2004
COP-7
delegates met in two Working Groups (WGs). WG-I considered mountain
biodiversity and protected areas (PAs). WG-II discussed technology
transfer and cooperation. Delegates convened in an afternoon Plenary to
hear progress reports on WG-I and WG-II’s work and statements by
organizations, and to address draft decisions on invasive alien species (IAS). Above photo L-R: Hamdallah Zedan, CBD Executive Secretary, Dato’ Seri Law Hieng Ding, Malaysia’s Minister of Science, Technology and Olivier Jalbert, CBD during the afternoon plenary. |
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Tererei Abete-Reema, Kiribati on behalf of the Pacific SIDS pointed to the lack of progress in technology transfer. |
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| Plenary:
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 Allastair Sarre (ITTO) (left) said it was working on a network of conservation reserves covering over 11 million hectares, many of them trans-boundary. |
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Listen to to the statements made by the delegates from (L-R) Shakeel Bahti (WIPO) Maria Fernanda Espinosa (IUCN) and Pekka Patosaari (UNFF) |
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