Call for contribution

[Erika BAUS]

Dear forum members,

Please find below a call for contribution emanating from the CBD National Focal Point.

Best regards,
Erika.

Dear colleague,

Please find a notification from the CBD Secretariat concerning suggestions for the integration of biodiversity considerations in climate change activities. The CBD deadline is rather short (1 October).

Could you send your contributions to the CBD National Focal Point by 19/9 at the latest? We will ensure the complilation of the information and any coordination with the EU if needed.

Many thanks in advance,

Anne Franklin
 

Subject: CBD Notification 2008-106 - Submission of views on ways to integrate biodiversity considerations in climate-change related activities
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:17:05 -0400
From: "secretariat" <SECRE...@cbd.int>
To: "List of CBD NFP" <list-c...@cbd.int>


Date: 21 August 2008
From: Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
To: CBD National Focal Points
Subject: Submission of views on ways to integrate biodiversity
considerations in climate-change related activities
Thematic area: Climate Change and Biodiversity 
Ref.: SCBD/STTM/JW/ac/64561

NOTIFICATION
No. 2008-106

Dear Madam/Sir,

The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity (COP 9), through paragraph B.13 of decision IX/16,
requests Parties to submit views on ways to integrate biodiversity
considerations in climate change related activities.  These views will
also serve to provide relevant input into the Ad Hoc Technical Expert
Group on biodiversity and climate change, as convened in paragraph B.12
of the same decision.

Accordingly, I am pleased to request that you submit your views to the
Secretariat by 1st October 2008, either electronically to
secre...@cbd.int or via fax to +1 (514) 288-6588.

In submitting your views, I invite you to make use of the attached
template and to consider all three objectives of the Convention: the
conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and
the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the
utilization of genetic resources.

If you are unable to conform to the requested deadline, an additional
opportunity for the submission of views on scientific and technical
matters will take place during the on-line dialogue in preparation for
the meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on biodiversity and
climate change.  This on-line dialogue will take place in mid-October
2008 and additional details will follow.

The full text of this notification is available on the CBD website at:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2008/ntf-2008-106-cc-en.pdf

Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Ahmed Djoghlaf
Executive Secretary
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
United Nations Environment Programme
413 Saint-Jacques Street, Suite 800
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H2Y 1N9
 
Tel: +1 514 288 2220
Fax: +1 514 288 6588
E-mail: secre...@cbd.int
Web: http://www.cbd.int