Working documents - May 2010

• Provisional Agenda
• Provisional Timetable
• Report of the Secretary of the MAB Programme on the implementation of the Madrid Action Plan (MAP), decisions and recommendations of the 21st session of the MAB-ICC and other related matters
• Reports on activities since the 21st MAB-ICC with special references to the Madrid Action Plan
• Member States of UNESCO Reports on activities since the 21st MAB-ICC with special references to the Madrid Action Plan
• Regional, sub-regional, MAB/biosphere reserve, ecosystem and other thematic networks
• Review and updating of statutory documents of MAB and the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Communication strategy and clearing-house mechanism
• World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Implementing the Madrid Action Plan Target 9: All biosphere reserves undertake periodic review and related actions to update zonation, management and other changes to meet Seville and MAP requirements and recommendations World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Biosphere reserves and relevant legislative frameworks at the national level World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Biosphere reserves as learning platforms for sustainable development including the future work of the task force on quality economies World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Proposals for new biosphere reserves and extensions/ modifications to designated biosphere reserves that are part of the WNBR World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Periodic review reports of biosphere reserves received since the 21st session of the MAB-ICC World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR)
• Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management
• Mid-term (2010) evaluation of the Madrid Action Plan (MAP): a progress report
• Capacity building
• ERAIFT (Regional Post-graduate Training School on Integrated Management of Tropical Forests and Lands)
• South-South Co-operation
• MAB Young Scientists Award Scheme
• Report on activities of the International Year of Biodiversity (2010)
• UNESCO Strategy on Climate Change and MAB and WNBR activities
• Date and venue of the 23rd session of the MAB-ICC and events linked to the 40th anniversary (1971-2011) of the MAB Programme
• Provisional List of Participants – available at the meeting
• Provisional List of Documents
• Report of the Secretary of the MAB Programme : A preliminary progress report on the implementation of the Madrid Action Plan
• Progress made and results achieved in implementation of the UNESCO Strategy for action on climate change and its enhanced plan of action
• The MAB Programme and the Oceans: Defining and developing an agenda including that of Ocean Biosphere Reserves
• The UNESCO Climate Change Initiative
• Report of the 21st Session of the International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB) – May 2009

         

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