CBD COP-4
May 11, 1998
Bratislava, Slovakia
SPECIAL EDITION
"The CBD at a Cross-Roads: From Negotiation to Implementation"
Sponsored by the London School of Economics and the Government of Canada
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Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias (Brazil) opens discussion on the history of the CBD negotiations |
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Patrick Szell (UK) calls the CBD only the first word, not the last word, on Biodiversity |
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Peter Schei (Norway, Chair of SBSTTA) talks about the evolution of the three-fold objectives of the CBD |
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Vaish Avani (India) compares the CBD and FCCC Negotiations |
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Arthur Campeau (Canada) discusses the four horsemen who are still riding over habitats |
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Vincente Sanchez (Chile, Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for the CBD) tells how the US put the CBD into the world's headlines |
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Veit Koester (Denmark, Chair of Working Group II of the INC, Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety) muses that the CBD negotiations already feel like past history; by COP-5 they may well belong to a past century |
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