Notification 2007-161
Second meeting of the informal consultation on the development of a strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the Convention’s objectives, Geneva, Switzerland, 20 January 2008
Dear Madam/Sir, I am pleased to inform you that the second meeting of the informal consultation on the development of a strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the Convention’s objectives will be held on Sunday, 20 January 2008, from 09:00 to 10:30 am, at the International Environment House, 11-13 Chemin des Anémones, Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland. Information on how to reach the International Environment House, as well as a map, is available on the CBD website at: http://www.environmenthouse.ch/docs/Directions%20to%20IEH.pdf. The following documents for the second informal consultation are also available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/meetings/: 1. Provisional agenda (UNEP/CBD/IC-RMS/2/1); 2. Annotations to the provisional agenda (UNEP/CBD/IC-RMS/2/1/Add.1); 3. Draft strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the Convention’s objectives (UNEP/CBD/IC-RMS/2/2); 4. Compilation of submissions on the development of a strategy for resource mobilization in support of the achievement of the Convention’s objectives (UNEP/CBD/IC-RMS/2/INF/1); 5. Background Note for Informal Consultation “Strategy for Resource Mobilization in Support of the Achievement of the Convention’s Objectives” (UNEP/CBD/IC-RMS/2/INF/2); 6. Draft of a message on finance and biological diversity to the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (UNEP/CBD/IC-RMS/2/INF/3); and 7. Information note for participants of the sixth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, 21-25 January 2008, Geneva, Switzerland. To assist with information exchange for the informal consultation, I have also initiated a CBD Online Network on Finance (CBD-NF) covering all issues currently under consideration which is available at: http://www.cbd.int/financial/. You are invited to participate in the second meeting of the informal consultation on 20 January 2008 and are kindly requested to inform the Secretariat, at your earliest convenience, in order for the Secretariat to make all necessary arrangements. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Executive Secretary
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant organizations