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

Background

The Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures ( 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

Agenda

                                                                                Presentations

                                                         Background and general presentations

                    Session 1:  Economic diversification and sustainable development in developing countries

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

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

    Note from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Links to relevant previous workshops:

• Workshop on economic diversification in Tehren, Iran, 2003 

• Report on the workshop in Tehran, Iran, 2003