BCH online forum on capacity-building - first conference
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is organising an online conference on "Capacity-building in environmental risk assessment and post-release monitoring of LMOs: Current status, priority needs and future capacity-building measures" from 3 to 14 November 2008. Organised in four sessions over 10 days, the moderated conference aims to provide an initial forum for the exchange of views, ideas and experiences regarding the priority needs and possible strategic ways and means of enhancing the capacities of developing countries and countries with economies in transition in risk assessment and post-release monitoring of living modified organisms (LMOs). The conference is open to anyone wishing to register. See
http://bch.cbd.int/onlineconferences/agenda_ra_cb.shtml or contact
[email protected] for more information.