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29514
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 22:21
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LOOKS FORWARD TO THE MALAYSIA ESTABLISHMENT OF IPBES
PUTRAJAYA, Nov 10 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is looking forward to the setting up of the Intergovernmental Platform or Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Douglas Uggah Embas said that
with the establishment of such a panel, it would be easier for decision makers
especially governments to decide any policy on the issues, including the
steps that should be taken to avoid the loss of biodiversity.
"This is a scientific and social process to strengthen relations between
knowledge holders on biodiversity and ecosystem services and government policy
makers.
"We are supportive of the concept of the panel, and hope by the
establishment the government can make more active decisions on issues of
biodiversity and ecosystem services," he told the reporters Monday.
Earlier, he opened the intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on
the setting up of IPBES -- a panel comprising scientists and knowledge holders
to guide decision makers or governments around the world on issues relating to
securing biodiversity and ecosystem services -- at Putrajaya International
Convention Centre.
Present were Education and Research Minister Valerie Pecresse of France and
United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner.
About 300 people from over 80 countries took part in the three-day
meeting.
Uggah said the meeting, a follow up from the review of the concept which
took place in July, would also serve as an opportunity to gather as much inputs
as possible to ensure that when the body is finally formed, it would be a body
that would achive the objectives that had been laid out.
Steiner said the proposed IPBES would be more compelling as it would
provide a lot of data on the issues and a network that goes beyond national
interest.
"Questions would be formulated from the user's perspective as well
political and government perspectives because at the end of the day we need to
provide relevant information to those who have to enact responses," he said.
He said that unlike other institutions, the panel would also provide steps
that governments should take.
"Data alone does not create options on how to act. You have to turn it
into politically and economically viable actions for the government to act," he
said.
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Douglas Uggah Embas said that
with the establishment of such a panel, it would be easier for decision makers
especially governments to decide any policy on the issues, including the
steps that should be taken to avoid the loss of biodiversity.
"This is a scientific and social process to strengthen relations between
knowledge holders on biodiversity and ecosystem services and government policy
makers.
"We are supportive of the concept of the panel, and hope by the
establishment the government can make more active decisions on issues of
biodiversity and ecosystem services," he told the reporters Monday.
Earlier, he opened the intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder meeting on
the setting up of IPBES -- a panel comprising scientists and knowledge holders
to guide decision makers or governments around the world on issues relating to
securing biodiversity and ecosystem services -- at Putrajaya International
Convention Centre.
Present were Education and Research Minister Valerie Pecresse of France and
United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner.
About 300 people from over 80 countries took part in the three-day
meeting.
Uggah said the meeting, a follow up from the review of the concept which
took place in July, would also serve as an opportunity to gather as much inputs
as possible to ensure that when the body is finally formed, it would be a body
that would achive the objectives that had been laid out.
Steiner said the proposed IPBES would be more compelling as it would
provide a lot of data on the issues and a network that goes beyond national
interest.
"Questions would be formulated from the user's perspective as well
political and government perspectives because at the end of the day we need to
provide relevant information to those who have to enact responses," he said.
He said that unlike other institutions, the panel would also provide steps
that governments should take.
"Data alone does not create options on how to act. You have to turn it
into politically and economically viable actions for the government to act," he
said.
