[AU-Monitor] Fwd: In case you don't get it

[Firoze Manji]

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> From: "Akwe Amosu" <akwe.amosu at gmail.com>
> Date: 28 January 2007 05:49:43 pm GMT
> To: "Bronwen Manby" <bronwen at afrimap.org>,  "Chidi Odinkalu"  
> <chidiao at hotmail.com>, Rotimi <rotimi at credonet.org>,  "Tawanda  
> Mutasah" <tawandam at osiafrica.org>,  "Firoze Manji" <firoze at fahamu.org>
> Subject: Fwd: In case you don't get it
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Earth Negotiations Bulletin <enb at iisd.org>
> Date: Jan 28, 2007 12:53 AM
> Subject: IISD RS coverage of the African Union Summit, Africa  
> Biosafety Policy Paper and AFRICASD-L list
> To: Linkages Update <linkages-buzz at lists.iisd.ca>
>
> Dear ENB readers
>
> Re: IISD RS coverage of the African Union Summit, Africa Biosafety  
> Policy Paper and AFRICASD-L list
>
>
> In April 2006 the International Institute for Sustainable  
> Development Reporting Services Division (IISD RS) and South  
> Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT), in  
> partnership with the UN Environment Programme's Regional Office for  
> Africa, joined together to assist in communicating the policy  
> outcomes of Africa regional meetings on environment and related  
> sustainable development issues to the larger international  
> community. The African Regional Coverage (ARC) project is the  
> result of the identified need to give African meetings and  
> activities a higher exposure to the international community.  
> Building on the success of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) in  
> covering international environment and sustainable development  
> meetings, this project expects to replicate this success at the  
> regional level in order to make the outcome of Africa's ministerial  
> meetings available to the world in real-time.
>
>
> Coverage of the eighth Africa Union Summit
>
>
> The eighth African Union (AU) Summit takes place at AU Headquarters  
> in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 22-30 January 2007. The Summit  
> consists of Ordinary Sessions of: the Permanent Representatives  
> Committee, from 22-23 January; the Executive Council, from 25-26  
> January; and the AU Assembly, from 29-30 January. The main themes  
> of the Summit are "Science, Technology and Scientific Research for  
> Development" and "Climate Change in Africa."
>
>
> While not physically reporting on the Summit, IISD Reporting  
> Services African Regional Coverage Project has established a  
> website dedicated to coverage of the Summit: http://www.iisd.ca/ 
> africa/aauss/
>
>
> The first briefing note for the Summit- a detailed institutional  
> history- places the main themes of the Summit in context by  
> providing a history of institutions, processes and decisions  
> related to science and technology (S&T), climate change and  
> sustainable development in Africa, with a particular focus on AU- 
> related processes. After a brief introduction to the AU, key  
> decisions of relevance from previous AU Summits are summarized.  
> This is followed by an outline of other AU events and programmes  
> that relate to S&T and sustainable development. The final section  
> of the briefing note summarizes recent international developments  
> in the area of climate change.
>
>
> The second briefing note on the outcomes of the Summit will be  
> available at the IISD AU site shortly after the conclusion of the  
> Summit http://www.iisd.ca/africa/aauss/
>
>
> Biosafety Policy Paper
>
>
>
> Given the focus of the AU Summit on science and technology, in  
> particular issues related to biotechnology and biosafety, IISD RS  
> experts have prepared a Biosafety Policy Paper which evaluates the  
> challenges ahead for African negotiators on areas related to  
> biotechnology and biosafety during the year 2007. The biosafety  
> paper reviews the framework documents adopted in the region in  
> order to harmonize approaches to biotechnology and biosafety,  
> including: Africa's Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of  
> Action adopted by the New Partnership for Africa's Development and  
> the African Union; the report of the High-Level African Panel on  
> Modern Biotechnology; the African Position on the Issue of  
> Genetically Modified Organisms and Agriculture, adopted by the  
> Conference of Agricultural Ministers of the African Union; and the  
> draft African strategy on biosafety presented by the African  
> Union's Directorate of Human Resources, Science and Technology.  
> Based on Africa's core guiding principles for policy-making, the  
> brief presents proposals and ideas to apply them in biotechnology- 
> related multilateral negotiations on environmental issues,  
> specifically negotiations on liability and redress in the context  
> of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, access and benefit-sharing  
> under the Convention on Biological Diversity, and funding for  
> biosafety in the framework of the Global Environment Facility.
>
>
> If you are interested in subscribing to IISD RS list serve  
> specifically designed to disseminate IISD RS's policy briefs please  
> send an email to enb at iisd.org and we will subscribe you to the list.
>
>
> AFRICASD-L List
>
>
> In order to disseminate the activities of the African Regional  
> Coverage Project, IISD RS has established the AFRICASD-L List as a  
> peer-to-peer list serve for information specifically regarding the  
> African Regional Coverage Project and related information on  
> sustainable development decision-making in Africa. If you are  
> interested in subscribing to AFRICASD-L and receiving ARC reports  
> and policy briefs please send an email to enb at iisd.org.
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
> Kimo GOREE
>
>
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> Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI
> Director, IISD Reporting Services
> International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) --  
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