Dear colleagues,
In support to the Belgian National Focal Point to the Subsidiary Body on
Scientific, Technical and Technological Affairs (SBSTTA) of the
Convention of Biological Diversity, the Belgian Biodiversity Platform
received a request from the secretariat of the Convention to invite
potentially interested persons to
join a public
internet-based discussion group available from 6 October, 2008 at:
www.cbd.int/climate/forums/public/
The discussion will serve to feed an Ad Hoc Technical Expert
Group (AHTEG) on biodiversity and climate change, by preparing
documentation for the AHTEG, especially noting the need to ensure
scientific credibility and timely information, so as to identify major
issues related to the items included in the AHTEG agenda. The first
meeting of the AHTEG will address scientific and technical matters
concerning the links between biodiversity and climate change with regards
to (i) identifying risks and vulnerabilities and (ii) impacts and
opportunities from climate change mitigation.
This discussion group will seek views from Parties, other governments and
relevant organizations on the following:
·
Tools or
methodologies that can be employed to assesses the vulnerability of
biodiversity to climate change;
·
Steps taken to
mobilize components of biodiversity to reduce risk and damage associated
with climate change impacts;
·
Steps taken to
realize multiple benefits for carbon sequestration, and biodiversity
conservation and sustainable use in a range of ecosystems;
·
Tools or
methodologies that can be employed in order to ensure that actions for
reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation support the
conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and
·
Information on
assessing and addressing possible negative impacts on biodiversity and /
or livelihoods of indigenous and local communities that may arise from
reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
The discussion group will run in two parts. Views on the
issues above will be collected from the 6 to 10 October 2008. A summary
of views will then be compiled and the dialogue will reopen with an
additional set of questions from 13 to 17 October 2008. The online
dialogue is open to all and does not require the submission of
information on participants to the Secretariat.
The full text of this notification is available on the CBD website at:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2008/ntf-2008-126-cc-en.pdf
Yours sincerely,
Hendrik Segers
Dr Hendrik Segers
http://biobel.biodiversity.be/biobel/person/show/1090
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
(
http://www.biodiversity.be/)
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
(http://www.belspo.be
)
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Freshwater Laboratory, Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29, B - 1000 Brussels Belgium
tel. --32(0)2.627.43.10 fax. --32(0)2.627.41.13 or - 4.33
hendrik.segers@naturalsciences.be
