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7th Earthwatch Working Party
NEW AND EMERGING ISSUES - Submitted by SBSTTA
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SUBMITTED
BY THE SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE
(SBSTTA)
At the last
meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological
Advice (SBSTTA) held in Montreal from 12 to 16 November 2001, SBSTTA adopted
recommendation VII/12 on new topics as follows:
Recommendation
VII/12 . Topics for future work
The Subsidiary
Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice,
Noting that
the following topics were proposed as potential main themes for the eighth
and subsequent meetings of the Conference of the Parties:
(a) Restoration
and rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and recovery of rare and threatened
species;
(b) The
importance of biodiversity for human health;
(c) Importance
of biosecurity in preserving biodiversity through the control of invasive
alien species;
(d) The
role of biodiversity in natural disaster prevention and relief;
(e) Island
biodiversity; and
(f) Biodiversity
of urban and peri-urban areas;
1. Invites
Parties to provide to the Executive Secretary, by March 2002, comments
on these possibilities, and/or additional suggestions, as appropriate,
for inclusion in an information document to be made available to the
Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting;
2. Invites
the Conference of Parties, when considering its programme of work,
to take into account these suggestions, as potential topics for in-depth
discussion by the Conference of the Parties at its eighth and/or ninth
meetings.
All SBSTTA recommendations can be found at our website at www.biodiv.org.
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