Press Release

Building a Global Scientific Alliance on Biodiversity and Climate Change, Paris, 2-6 July 2007.

International scientific experts and policy makers will gather at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from 2 to 6 July 2007 for the twelfth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Central to their discussions will be the scientific and technical aspects of the loss of biodiversity and the growing impacts of climate change on the implementation of the activities undertaken under the Convention. They will also consider the issue of biofuels, the first time that an emerging scientific issue has been added to the SBSTTA agenda. The recommendations will be addressed at the next meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, to be held in Bonn, Germany, from 19 to 30 May 2008.

Publication Date
2007-06-27