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Third Announcement: A Change in Climate for Whales. Pew Whale Symposium Secretariat 20 DECEMBER, 2007 A Travel Advisory section has been added, 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 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 63 registered participants from 22 different countries, we look forward to receiving this information as soon as possible, and thank you in advance for your kind co-operation. Speakers' biographies are also available on this website. A full list of participants will also be available before the start of the symposium. Finally, a Resources section with relevant documents and links useful to websites has been opened, and will be updated regularly. 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. Arrangements have been made with the Earth Negotiations Bulletin to secure online ENB reporting, following the same format that was used in April for the first Pew-sponsored Whale Symposium in New York. 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 Third Announcement 20 December, 2007 |
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