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Fourth Announcement: A Change in Climate for Whales. Pew Whale Symposium Secretariat The Pew Whale Symposium Secretariat has started to arrive in Tokyo this week, and we are busy sorting out final details. On this website, you can find: A Travel Advisory section with information on the two hotels where block bookings have been made by the Symposium Secretariat, and instructions on how to best get from Narita airport to the hotels, and from the hotels to the United Nations University. We are asking all non-Japanese participants who have not done so yet to send their flight details to the Secretariat in order to help us organize guides for groups upon your arrival whenever possible, or otherwise to give you individual instructions. With nearly 80 registered participants from 23 different countries, we look forward to receiving this information if you have not provided it, and thank you in advance for your kind co-operation. Speakers' biographies are all available on this website. An additional section “Meet the Participants” will also be developed during the symposium itself. A full list of participants will be available before the start of the symposium. Finally, the Resources section with relevant documents and useful links continues to be updated. As shown on the Symposium agenda, in keeping with the spirit of bringing new ideas to the table and generating an open dialogue between participants, we will be drawing on the skills and experience of people from other fora with equally if not more difficult and contentious issues. We hope that lessons can be learned and success stories applied to the whaling context. The Earth Negotiations Bulletin team (ENB) that will report in both English and Japanese, following the same format that was used in April for the first Pew-sponsored Whale Symposium in New York is also expected to arrive soon. In Tokyo, ENB will report in both English and Japanese. Like the rest of the participants, the ENB team will respect the Chatham House rule whereby no individual statement is attributed to their authors unless decided otherwise. We would like to draw your special attention to the closing session, which will consist of an interactive round robin where speakers will be asked to take into account the wide variety of views expressed over the course of the two days, and to put forward innovative ideas and recommendations for the March intersessional meeting of the IWC on the future of the international whale conservation regime that will take place at Heathrow, UK on 6-8 March, 2008. At the close of the Symposium, a preliminary draft of the Chairman’s Summary will be presented to the group. A mechanism will be found for participants to comment on it before it is forwarded to the IWC for its consideration.
The Pew Environment Group Whale Symposium Secretariat: whales@pewtrusts.org.
This is the Fourth Announcement 23 January 2008 |
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