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The
tenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific,
Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-10) of the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will convene from
7-11 February 2005 at the United Nations Conference Centre
in Bangkok, Thailand, under the Chairmanship of Alfred
Oteng-Yeboah (Ghana). SBSTTA-10 will be held back-to-back
with the third meeting of the Ad
Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit
Sharing.
The
CBD, negotiated under the auspices of the UN Environment
Programme, was adopted on 22 May 1992, and entered into
force on 29 December 1993. There are currently 188 Parties
to the Convention, which aims to promote “the
conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use
of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of
benefits arising from the use of genetic
resources.”
Under Article 25 of the CBD, SBSTTA is mandated
to provide advice to the Conference of the Parties (COP)
and other subsidiary bodies regarding the implementation
of the Convention. To date, SBSTTA has held nine meetings,
each of which developed recommendations on various
thematic and cross-cutting issues under the Convention,
including recommendations for work programmes on:
agricultural biodiversity; biodiversity of dry and
sub-humid lands; forest biodiversity; biodiversity of inland waters; marine
and coastal biodiversity; mountain biodiversity; protected
areas; and technology transfer and cooperation. Cross-cutting issues that benefited from SBSTTA consideration include
invasive alien species, biodiversity and climate change,
incentive measures, the ecosystem approach, plant
conservation, taxonomy, indicators of the status and
trends of biodiversity, and sustainable use.
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