From s.vanderhoeven at biodiversity.be Mon Apr 15 15:15:53 2019 From: s.vanderhoeven at biodiversity.be (Sonia Vanderhoeven) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:15:53 +0200 Subject: [Invasive-species] CBD Notification 2019-040 - Invasive Alien Species: Invitation to the Online Discussion Forum In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FYI. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find below a CBD Notification that might be of interest to you, or to expert with whom you collaborate. Note the very short deadline (19 April!) and that the Participation form has to be endorsed by the CBD NFP (me). I'd appreciate if you'd be so kind as to distribute within the IAD expert network. Thanks a lot in advance, For the CBD NFP, Hendrik Dr Hendrik Segers National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vautierstraat 29 B -1000 Brussels Belgium Tel. +32 (0) 2 627 43 10 Skype hendrik.segers -----Original Message----- From: Secretariat Sent: 09 April 2019 23:14 To: List of CBD NFP ; List of Cartagena Protocol Focal Points ; List of ABS Focal Points < List-ABS at cbd.int> Subject: CBD Notification 2019-040 - Invasive Alien Species: Invitation to the Online Discussion Forum Dear Madam/Sir, In its decision 14/11, paragraphs 5 and 13 (b), the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requested the Executive Secretary to facilitate the work of the online forum and asked the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group to provide advice or develop elements of technical guidance on management measures on invasive alien species to be implemented by broad sectors, to facilitate achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 and beyond. Accordingly, a moderated online discussion forum will be organized by the Secretariat, with the following timetable: Methods for cost-benefit analysis 1 - 31 May 2019 Methods, tools, and measures for identification and minimization of risk of e-commerce 1 - 30 June 2019 Methods, tools and strategy for invasive alien species management under climate change and others 1 - 31 July 2019 Risk analysis on the potential consequences on social, economic and cultural values 1- 31 August 2019 Wrap up session for synthesis of report 1 - 15 September 2019 The Secretariat would like to encourage your active participation in this online forum. To take part in the online forum, participants are required to submit a duly completed Participation Form, endorsed by the National Focal Point for the Convention or Head of the Organization (forms attached), and to send the forms to the Secretariat by e-mail at: secretariat at cbd.int as soon as possible but no later than 19 April 2019. Further information about the online forum is available at: https://www.cbd.int/invasive/forum2/. After the online forum, a meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Invasive Alien Species is tentatively planned to take place in Montreal, Canada, in November 2019. Participants will be selected from the experts who have actively contributed to the process of the online forum, taking into account the terms of reference referred to in decision 14/11 (Annex II), and in consultation with the Bureau of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice. The exact dates and venue of the meeting will be communicated in due course. The text of this notification is also available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2019/ntf-2019-040-ias-en.docx. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. Cristiana Pa?ca Palmer, PhD 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: secretariat at cbd.int Web: http://www.cbd.int The Convention on Biological Diversity -25th Anniversary -- Dr Sonia Vanderhoeven Science Officer Belgian Biodiversity Platform www.bi odiversity.be SPW-DGARNE-DEMNA Direction de la Nature et de l'Eau Avenue de la Facult?, 22 B-5030 Gembloux T?l : 081/620 438 ORCID : 0000-0002-6298-5373 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: attachment_participation form_endorsement form.dotx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 714001 bytes Desc: not available URL: