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Highlights
for Thursday 18 April 2002 The Ministerial roundtable reconvened in the morning to adopt the Ministerial declaration and address outstanding forest issues. A multi-stakeholder dialogue was held to address gender issues and benefit-sharing. A brief Plenary met in the evening to review progress. Working Group II (WG-II) met in morning and evening sessions to consider Conference Room Papers (CRPs) on: Article 8(j); financial resources and mechanism; contribution to the ten-year review of Agenda 21; as well as the multi-year programme of work. Contact groups on forest biodiversity and the financial mechanism also met. Above photo: The dias during the Ministerial Roundatable. |
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MINISTERIAL
ROUNDTABLE |
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Uganda emphasized the need for rationalisation of international environmental governance (IEG) and reference the IEG process in the Ministerial Declaration |
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Seychelles recommended a flexible two-tier approach to the year 2010 target to halt biodiversity loss. |
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UNEP Executive Director Klaus Töpfer characterized the broad Ministerial participation in the COP-6 high-level segment as a breakthrough for the CBD, placing it on equal footing with the UNFCCC. |
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MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE: |
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Lorena Aguilar, Senior Gender Advisor, IUCN, discussed mainstreaming the issue of gender and environment on the institutional, political and field levels. |
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Bolivian and South Korean representatives from the Youth Conference called for legal measures to ensure equitable benefit-sharing. |
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FAIR AND EQUITABLE SHARING OF BENEFITS FROM GENETIC RESOURCES: |
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The INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT GROUP highlighted the roles of indigenous peoples and local communities in maintaining seed and crop diversity, and called for a ban on terminator seeds. |
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The THIRD WORLD NETWORK noted deficiencies in the Bonn guidelines, including a failure to define rights of indigenous peoples, local communities and farmers, and address conflict with TRIPS. |
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WORKING GROUP II: FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND MECHANISM: |
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Links: The
CBD home page COP-6
Provisional Agenda |PDF|WORD| |
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