From s.vanderhoeven at biodiversity.be Mon Sep 16 10:51:48 2019 From: s.vanderhoeven at biodiversity.be (Sonia Vanderhoeven) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:51:48 +0200 Subject: [Invasive-species] Fwd: FW: CBD Notification 2019-078 - Nomination of Experts for the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group meeting on invasive alien species Montreal, Canada from 2 to 4 December 2019 In-Reply-To: References: <7BCF2F2C47C52A47865EA6D03E9C742ED4B711@email2.biodiv.org> Message-ID: For your information Best regards, Sonia ---------- Forwarded message --------- De : Hendrik Segers Date: lun. 16 sept. 2019 ? 09:13 Subject: FW: CBD Notification 2019-078 - Nomination of Experts for the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group meeting on invasive alien species Montreal, Canada from 2 to 4 December 2019 Dear colleagues, Please see the invitation below, with a short deadline...I'd appreciate if you could forward the information to your IAS colleagues. If you would be aware of any colleague who'd be knowledgeable and willing to contribute to the AHTEG, please return me the completed attached nomination form and the nominee's Curriculum Vitae - or invite the person to contact me. Best regards, For the CBD NFP, Hendrik. -----Original Message----- From: Secretariat Sent: 13 September 2019 23:54 To: List of CBD NFP ; List of SBSTTA NFP < list-sbstta-fp at cbd.int>; List of IPLC Organizations ; List of Business Organizations ; List of Academic/Research Organizations ; List of Inter-Governmental Organizations ; List of Non-Governmental Organizations ; List of UN Organizations Subject: CBD Notification 2019-078 - Nomination of Experts for the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group meeting on invasive alien species Montreal, Canada from 2 to 4 December 2019 Date: 13 September 2019 From: Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points, Relevant Organizations, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, cc: The Inter-agency Liaison Group on Invasive Alien Species, the Secretariat of the ECOSOC Sub-committee of the Expert on Transport of Dangerous Goods, IPBES Secretariat Subject: Nomination of Experts for the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group meeting on invasive alien species Montreal, Canada from 2 to 4 December 2019 Thematic area: Invasive Alien Species Ref.: SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/JSH/VA/88332 NOTIFICATION No. 2019-078 Dear Madam/Sir, The Conference of the Parties (COP), at its fourteenth meeting, decided to establish an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) with relevant terms of reference (https://www.cbd.int/doc/decisions/cop-14/cop-14-dec-11-en.pdf), and, wherever possible, to meet back-to-back with other relevant meetings. In the same decision, the COP also requested the Executive Secretary to convene a moderated open online discussion forum to support the deliberations of the AHTEG. In response to the above, with the generous financial support from the Government of Norway, the AHTEG will be meeting in Montreal, Canada from 2 to 4 December 2019, back-to-back with the twenty-third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-23). The AHTEG meeting will be conducted in English. Accordingly, I am pleased to invite Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations to nominate a representative to take part in the AHTEG meeting. The nominee should meet at least one of the criteria, below: (a) Expert involved in invasive alien species management actions at the community, sub-national, national or regional level; (b) Expert with knowledge and experience in risk analysis of alien species; (c) Expert with knowledge and experience in cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis on invasive alien species management; (d) Expert with knowledge and experience in e-commerce and associated risks; (e) Expert with knowledge and experience in considering the impact of climate change and related natural disaster or land use change on biological invasions; (f) Expert with knowledge and experience in invasive alien species data and data tools (e.g. Global Registry of Introduced and Invasive Species, EICAT, SEICAT or other relevant databases). Participants will be selected by the Secretariat, in consultation with the SBSTTA bureau, in accordance with the modus operandi of the Subsidiary Body (https://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/cop/cop-08/official/cop-08-16-add4-en.pdf) on the basis of their expertise, their contributions during the online forum held in the period from 1 May to 15 September 2019, as well as geographic and gender balance. The CBD National Focal Points and Heads of organizations are invited to nominate an expert, by submitting an official nomination letter accompanied by the completed attached nomination form and the nominee's Curriculum Vitae. The nomination may be sent via fax to: +1-514-288-6588 or via email to: secretariat at cbd.int, no later than 7 October 2019. The text of this notification is also available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2019/ntf-2019-078-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 -- 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-2019-078-nomination-form.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 718765 bytes Desc: not available URL: