Meeting Documents

Report of the seventh meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

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Provisional agenda

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Adoption of the agenda
Annotations to the provisional agenda

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Draft recommendations for the consideration of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice at its seventh meeting

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Reports: Ad Hoc Technical Expert Groups
Progress report on the status and work of the ad hoc technical expert groups

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Reports: Assessment Processes
Progress report on ongoing assessment processes

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Reports: Assessment processes
Progress report on ongoing assessment processes
Addendum: Project briefs of pilot assessments
Proposed project brief submitted by New Zealand

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Reports: Biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands
Progress report on the implementation of the programme of work

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Sustainable Use: progress in the development of practical principles, operational guidance and associated instruments

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Main Theme: Forest Biological Diversity
Report of the ad hoc technical expert group on forest biological diversity

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Main Theme: Forest Biological Diversity
Consideration of specific threats to forest biological diversity

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Main Theme: Forest Biological Diversity
Draft revised programme of work on Forest Biological Diversity

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Main thematic item: Forests biological diversity
Summary of issues, recommendations and programme of work and organisation of work for Working Group I

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Agricultural Biodiversity
Progress report on the implementation of the programme of work, including development of the International Pollinators Initiative

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Agricultural Biodiversity
The international initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators: A proposal for a plan of action

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Plant Conservation Strategy
A proposal for a global strategy for plant conservation

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Incentive Measures
Proposals for the design and implementation of incentive measures

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Incentive measures
Proposals for the design and implementation of incentive measures
Addendum: Report of the workshop on incentive measures for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

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Indicators and environmental impact assessment
Designing national level monitoring programmes and indicators

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Impact Assessment:
Further development of guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation and/or processes and in strategic environmental assessment

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Preparation for the eighth and ninth meetings of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice: draft provisional agendas

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Impacts of human-induced fires on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and their causes in tropical, temperate and boreal forest biomes

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Sustainable management of non-timber forest resources

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Main theme: Forest biological diversity
Review of the status and trends of, and major threats to, the forest biological diversity, prepared by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Forest Biological Diversity

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Main theme: Forest biological diversity
Matrices used in defining options and priority actions for conservation and sustainable use of forest biological diversity

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Main theme: Forest Biological Diversity
Implementation of the work programme for forest biological diversity: synthesis of information from the thematic reports submitted by Parties

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Agricultural biological diversity
On-farm management of crop genetic diversity: paper submitted by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute

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Reports: Assessment processes
List of ongoing and proposed assessments in thematic areas of the Convention on Biological Diversity

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Sustainable use: Progress on development of practical principles, operational guidance and associated instruments
Report of the Maputo Workshop on Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity, 24-27 September 2001

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Plant conservation strategy
A joint Council of Europe and Planta Europa European Plant Conservation Strategy: submission by Planta Europa and the Council of Europe

10.

Agricultural Biological Diversity
Soil biodiversity and sustainable agriculture: paper submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Agricultural Biological Diversity
Lessons learned from case-studies on animal genetic resources: paper submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations

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Agricultural Biological Diversity
The first report on the state of the world's animal genetic resources for food and agriculture: paper submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Main frame: Forest biological diversity
Targets for forests in the Convention on Biological Diversity: paper submitted on behalf of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Forest Biological Diversity

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Reports: Assessment processes
Status and draft outline of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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Information for participants

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Press release

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Registration form

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List of side events