Pre-sessional Expert Meeting on Economic Diversification

Bonn, 16-17 May 2006
Salon Koch, Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Germany

Background

The Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures ( (PDF) Decision 1/CP.10) requests the secretariat in paragraph 16(b) to organize a pre-sessional expert meeting in conjunction with SBI 24 “to consider how economic diversification might be integrated into, and support sustainable development strategies and to discuss what technical assistance may be needed to develop structural and institutional capacity for facilitating efforts to achieve economic diversification, as well as how foreign and domestic private sector investments in these areas may be encouraged.”
At COP 11 one party expressed its views on the upcoming pre-sessional expert meeting on economic diversification, which can be found in document FCCC/SBI/2005/MISC.4.

Report on the expert meeting on economic diversification

Background paper

(PDF) Agenda

Presentations

Background and general presentations

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Mr. Aaron Cosbey	International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)	Economic Diversification, Sustainable Development and the Impacts of Response Measures
Mr. Ramiro Ramirez	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	OPEC on Economic Diversification

Session 1: Economic diversification and sustainable development in developing countries

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Ms. Le-Yin Zhang	University College London	Economic Diversification and Sustainable Development: Linkages and Barriers
Mr. Mohammed Al-Zayer	Saudi Arabia	Economic Diversification - A country perspective
Mr. Greg Picker	Australia	Economic Diversification and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries: An Australian Perspective
Mr. Cédric Philibert	International Energy Agency (IEA)	Economic Diversification and Sustainable Development - Facts and Thoughts

Session 2: Technical support for structural and institutional capacity for economic diversification

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Ms. Le-Yin Zhang	University College London	Fostering Economic Diversification

Session 3: Foreign and domestic investments and partnerships to support economic diversification

Presenter	Party/Organization	Subject
Mr. Paul Watkinson	France on behalf of the EU	EU Perspectives on Economic Diversification for Sustainable Development
Mr. Mustafa Babiker	Arab Planning Institute	Economic Diversification in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Prospects and Challenges

Note from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

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