RESOLUTION
of the Biodiversity Issue Group
European Eco-Forum Strategy meeting, Kiev, Ukraine
(September 14-16, 2000)
Acknowledging the great importance
of the natural biological diversity for sustainable development and surviving
of the humankind;
Noting also that agricultural
development is impossible without conservation of the various forms of
domestic and semi-domestic plants and animals;
Being aware that natural ecosystems
play a significant role in the carbon sequestration and in combating desertification;
Taking into account the great
importance of implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity Conservation
and further enhancement of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity
Strategy,
Biodiversity Issue Group of the Pan-European EcoForum calls
upon
the respective Governments of the Countries - Parties to the Environment
for Europe Process,
international and intergovernmental agencies:
- to develop an International Register of Specially Protected and other
Natural Core Areas for the eastern part of the Pan-European Ecological
Network;
- to argue for and to promote determination positive and negative action,
caused by artificial increasing of the wildlife biodiversity in the
context of precautionary principles use;
- to request international and national donors to publish all technical,
financial and factual reports on projects implementation (final and
preliminary) through Internet in the national language of the recipient
country, in order to promote public participation, transparency of decision-making
and effectiveness of funds allocation;
- to develop a dialogue with International Financial Institutions, other
major investment funds and credit organisations working in the Pan-European
region on environmentally friendly investment policy benchmarks and
indicators related to projects landed in the countries with economics
in transition;
- to expand good practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment upon
human activities affecting the most important biodiversity issues in
the practice of agriculture, forestry and spatial planning;
- to promote international collaboration to achieve the goals of the
Convention On Biological Diversity Conservation and the Pan-European
Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy in part of wildlife maintenance
on the seas and offshore zones of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans in Pan-European
context following up to the United Nations Convention On The Law Of
The Sea for sustainable marine resources management and biodiversity
conservation;
- to promote of faster joining by the countries of the CEE and western
part of the NIS to the UNCCD and elaboration of the 5th Annex to the
above mentioned Convention;
- to establish CIS Corporate Responsibility Council for Biodiversity
Conservation under the supervision of Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of
the Commonwealth of Independent States to achieve understanding the
necessity of direct sectoral involvement into the implementation of
the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy;
- to develop Ecologically Sustainable Agriculture Strategy for Newly
Independent States, supporting local and national traditions of environment
friendly agriculture and land use in the NIS region;
- to accelerate preparation and adoption of the Moldovan-Ukrainian Convention
on the Dniester River, considering transboundary context of environment
conservation and biodiversity resources use, and highlighting the pioneer
essence, significant for the eastern part of the Pan-Europe.
SPECIAL ISSUE I:
Suggestions on the Aarhus Convention Improvement
1. Recognising the only mean to
provide true information is the possibility to search it origin, tools
and methods for primary obtaining, qualification of employers, possibility
to prove cases of desinformation, a corresponding amendment is necessary
to update Article 2, Point 3 with the item (d) Factors and means which
determine presence, quality and reliability of data, numbered in provisions
(a), (b) and (c).
2. Considering evident disagreement
between provisions of the Aarhus Convention and the Convention on Biological
Diversity with its mechanisms as the PEBLDS in the Europe, understanding
primary and crucial importance of the main biodiversity resources for
survival of mankind, it needs to update Annex 1 with the next items:
Forestry, Fishery and Pest Control:
a) plans and programmes of natural resources usage, approving
for scales of region, country and branch of industry or resources management;
b) acclimatisation programmes;
c) artificial reproduction of wild species.
SPECIAL ISSUE II:
Rio+10:
1. To update Annex 1 of the Aarhus Convention
by amendments containing files devoting to public participation in decision
- making concerning crucial biodiversity issues.
2. To promote further implementation of
the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought at
the Pan-European area, especially in co-operation with related parts of
the Pan-European Biodiversity and Landscape Strategy Biodiversity Issue
Group decided to establish a special working body on desertification problems.
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