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Curtain Raiser:
 The sixth session of the Subsidiary Body for
Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-6) to the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) begins today and will continue
until 16 March 2001 in Montreal, Canada. The meeting will be followed by
the second session of the CBD’s Experts’ Panel on Access and
Benefit-Sharing, which will meet from 19-22 March 2001.
SBSTTA-6 delegates are expected to meet
in two working groups. Working Group I will consider invasive alien
species, focusing on: status and trends; a review of existing instruments
and identification of gaps; and options for future work, including
elaboration of the guiding principles, consideration of the need for a
legal instrument and development of joint work programmes. Working Group
II will discuss: scientific assessments; the Global Taxonomy Initiative;
biodiversity and climate change, including cooperation with the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change; migratory species and cooperation
with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild
Animals. Additionally, the Plenary will review progress reports on: ad
hoc technical expert groups; assessment processes; marine and coastal
biodiversity; and biodiversity of inland water ecosystems.
Cristián Samper (Colombia) will serve as
the Chair of SBSTTA-6. The recommendations of both SBSTTA-6 and SBSTTA-7
(November 2001) will be reported to the sixth Conference of the Parties to
be held from 8-19 April 2002, in the Hague, the Netherlands.
Above photo: A full scale replica of the Storm Wing Model (circa
1894 by Oto Lilienthal of Germany) is on exhibit at the ICAO Headquarters,
where SBSTTA-6 will take place.
 ENB Coverage of SBSTTA-5
CBD
Secretariat web site with official documents and
information
for participants
SBSTTA
Issues on: Invasive
Alien Species | Climate
Change and Biodiversity | GTI
SBSTTA-5
Recommendations
ENB's Introduction to CBD
German
CHM COP Decisions Database
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ENB
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