If the CBD establishes an Assessment Panel under SBSTTA wouldn that make the Millennium Assessment redundant?
No. The report of the brainstorming meeting on scientific assessments (UNEP/CBD/COP/5/Inf./1) noted that “some assessments, like the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and others, may be designed and established in partnership with other institutions where assessment needs are complementary and to address interlinkages among issues.” While the Assessment Panel proposed under UNEP/CBD/COP/5/17 could, in principle, conduct an assessment of ecosystems completely under the auspices of the CBD, there are tremendous advantages to meeting this portion of the CBD’s assessment needs through a collaborative effort with other institutions that have needs for largely the same information. As noted in the report of the brainstorming meeting, joint assessments can be readily conducted using the Assessment Panel mechanism as proposed in UNEP/CBD/COP/5/17 by ensuring that the Assessment Panel established under SBSTTA has the ability to perform several specific tasks in collaboration with partners from th
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