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On Monday, 1 December 2008, Robert Watson, Co-Chair of the first meeting of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Biodiversity and Climate Change convened under the Convention on Biological Diversity and former Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will present the draft findings of the first meeting of the AHTEG to the scientific advisory body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Statement by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention, Strasbourg, France, 24 November 2008.

Discours de M. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Secretaire executif de la Convention sur la diversite biologique, à l'occasion de la Journee biodiversite & entreprises de l'European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy, Paris, France, le 18 novembre 2008.

Statement by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the occasion of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, London, United Kingdom , 17 - 21 November 2008.

Message from the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, to the International Mountain Biodiversity Conference on "Biodiversity Conservation and Management for Enhanced Ecosystem Services: Responding to the Challenges of Global Change", Kathmandu, Nepal, 16-18 November 2008.

Biosafety: The first round of Discussion Groups within the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management extended to 30 November 2008.

Biosafety: Online conference on capacity-building extended to 28 November 2008.

Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental and Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 10-12 November 2008

Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Council of the Global Environment Facility, Washington D.C., 11 November 2008.

"The United States and the Convention on Biological Diversity": Statement Delivered by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention, at George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., on 12 November 2008.