See below. Please note PW's request not to discuss this matter in this forum.
Thanks Andrew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Phillip Williamson (ENV)" <[email protected]> Date: 13 Aug 2015 09:58 Subject: CBD draft update on geoengineering open to peer review To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew - To fulfil decisions made at the 11th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP-11), the CBD Secretariat has prepared a draft update report on the impacts of climate geoengineering on biodiversity and the associated regulatory framework. I have been involved in the preparation of the draft update, as an independent advisor, in the context of my previous involvement in CBD Technical Series No. 66 (2012): Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Technical and Regulatory Matters ( http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-66-en.pdf). The draft update is now available for peer review at https://www.cbd.int/sbstta19/review/, as paper UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/19/INF/2. It will be subsequently finalised as a background paper for the 19th CBD SBSTTA meeting to be held in Montreal in early November. Anyone wishing to comment on the draft update may do so by 31 August 2015, to [email protected] using the template provided (link via https://www.cbd.int/sbstta19/review/). Note that the online version of the report is an "unedited draft, for comments only, and not for citation or other uses". Thus comments on it should NOT be shared with others, i.e. it is NOT appropriate that the draft is discussed by the open forum of the Google Geoengineering Group. The opportunity for such discussion will come later, when the finalised version is made available prior to the SBSTTA meeting. Nevertheless, I see no reason why members of the Group should not be aware that the draft update exists, so that they have the opportunity to formally provide expert comments on it (either on specific aspects, or the report as a whole), so that those comments can be taken into account by the CBD Secretariat. Whilst no guidance is provided by the CBD Secretariat on what form comments should take, it would seem most useful to focus on scientific quality, i.e. whether the report provides a valid synthesis of the evidence from recent research, identifying any factual inaccuracies and/or omissions of important information. Note that: 1. It is possible that members of the Group may have already been individually invited by the CBD Secretariat to provide their expert comments on the draft report. 2. If the information provided here is shared with the Group, then I request that you retain original wording as far as possible. Regards Phil *********** Dr Phillip Williamson School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ Tel +(0)1603 593111 Mobile +(0)7749092287 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
