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Sixth Announcement: A Change in Climate for Whales.
Second Pew-Sponsored Whale Symposium
United Nations University,
Tokyo, 30-31 January 2008
Pew Whale Symposium Secretariat
whales@pewtrusts.org
TOKYO CELL PHONES:
+81 (0)80 6501 5516 -- +81 (0)80 6501 55 31
Tokyo 30th January, 2008
97 participants from 28 different nationalities (one third from Japan) are registered to participate in Tokyo on Wednesday 30th January and Thursday 31st January in the second Pew Whale Symposium at the headquarters of the United Nations University in Tokyo.
The List of Participants is now available.
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.
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 are 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) offers daily coverage following the same format that was used in April for the first Pew Whale Symposium in New York. In Tokyo, ENB reports are in both English and Japanese. Like the rest of the participants, the ENB team respects the Chatham House rule whereby no individual statement is attributed to their authors unless decided otherwise.
The Pew Symposium in Tokyo is taking place a few weeks before the International Whaling Commission meets for an 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 participants. As at the first symposium in New York, there will be a mechanism for participants to comment on it before it is forwarded to the IWC for its consideration.
The Pew-sponsored symposium:
- Brings together a broadly representative group with multiple points of view;
- Includes international policy experts with no direct experience in the whaling debate, to foster new ideas;
- Limits media activity before and during the symposium so as to create a constructive and non-pressured environment; and
- Uses the Chatham House rule whereby no individual statements are attributed to their authors without permission.
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The Pew Environment Group Whale Symposium Secretariat: whales@pewtrusts.org.
Rémi Parmentier
+81 (0) 80 6501 55 31 |
Alex García Wylie
+81 (0) 80 6501 55 16 |
This is the Fifth Announcement 27 January 2008
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Chairperson
 Judge Tuiloma Neroni Slade, former Presiding Judge of the International Criminal Court; previously Ambassador of Samoa to the United Nations; Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and leader in the climate change negotiations; and former Co-Chairman of the United Nations Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS).
Secretariat
 Rémi Parmentier, Senior Policy Consultant, Pew Environment Group.
Kelly Rigg, Director of the Varda Group.
Alex García Wylie, Associate of the Varda Group.
Monica Medina, Director of the Pew Whales Project.
Duncan Currie, Barister.
Vanessa Goad, Associate of the Varda Group.
Whales in the Media
Read the NY Symposium Bulletin
Click here for ENB online reporting of the Whale Symposium.
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