Scientific and Technological Advice

Scientific and Technological Advice

Scientific and Technological Advice

In addition, I intend to appoint a Scientific Adviser to the Secretary General, who will provide strategic forward looking scientific advice on policy matters, mobilizing scientific and technological expertise within the United Nations system and from the broader scientific and academic community.

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)

Protection policy and legal advice

The key question is how to move from the narrow focus on risk toward broader and deeper understandings of incomplete knowledge and thus to better scientific policy advice.

Report of the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee.

Report of the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee.

Having considered the relevant recommendations of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice,

Agenda item 9, Report of the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee .

CPF members refer to the direct technical assistance and or scientific advice that they provide.

Draft report of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice on its twenty third session

Relatively few activities and resources are devoted to policy advice, policy development, capacity building and pilot projects.

Policy advice, policy development, capacity building and piloting should be even more systematically implemented under country programmes.

Report of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice Report of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation

(i) Responding to requests from Governments for urgent advice on policy related issues

develop their own plans of action, be it at the national or regional level, based on sound scientific advice.

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice did not complete its consideration of issues under this agenda sub item.

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice did not complete its consideration of issues under this agenda sub item.

A 1991 study by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Governmental Policy, entitled

1.202 To provide policy advice to the Commissioner General and ensure smooth implementation of policy decisions and general cohesion of Agency operations.

The Forum secretariat has been actively involved with IUFRO in exploring how the provision of scientific knowledge and advice can be further enhanced in the future at the international level in order to facilitate informed decision making and contribute to policy implementation.

Further cooperation with UNCTAD in the area of policy advice on SME competitiveness was planned.

Some countries advocate for the involvement of the disaster reduction community in the Convention Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice.

The Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section prepares guidelines on protection policy and standards and provides legal advice on legislation and on interpretation and application of the 1951 Convention, as well as expertise to implement legislation and policies on protection.

(d) Policy advice to Governments on reviving industrial development and promoting investments, whether domestic or foreign

Having considered the relevant recommendations of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice regarding the completion of the technical guidance on adjustments,

Reports demonstrate a positive approach towards encouraging interaction between the scientific research and policy processes.

During its meeting at the fifteenth session, the Scientific and Technical Advice Committee also discussed the matter of further guidance to States regarding the information that the Commission would wish to be included in requests by States for scientific and technical advice in order to assess such requests in an efficient manner and respond to them promptly.

The coastal State shall at the same time give the names of any Commission members who have provided it with scientific and technical advice.

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) took note of the information contained in documents FCCC SBSTA 2005 MISC.9 and Add.

Another methodological challenge relates to activities such as policy advice, which are difficult to measure in quantitative terms.

Provided general legal and policy advice and assistance to Commonwealth Member States with respect to criminal law issues

The EU also noted the conclusion that all integrated programmes should include a policy advice and competitiveness analysis component.

In our policy advice we are always trying to make our work more effective and to learn from experience.

The technical guidance attached to decision 20 CP.9 was revised at the twenty second session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA).

Assistance is required to support national investment related institutions and policy advice to create regulatory frameworks conducive to attracting FDI.

1. Emphasizes that the capacity of the Commission as a source of technical expertise and policy advice should be further strengthened

And it should be equipped to give technical assistance to States and policy advice to States and United Nations bodies alike.

The Government verbally committed itself to increasing efforts to include civil society and minority communities in policy advice mechanisms (a priority).

Through a directive from OSTP, an interdisciplinary, interagency Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team formed to provide scientific advice to Federal officials making decisions about recovery and river basin management following the severe flooding of the Upper Mississippi and Missouri River basins in 1993.

(ii) Ad hoc expert groups meetings of the ad hoc Scientific Advisory Committee to provide advice to the UNEP fourth Global Environment Outlook processes and activities and scientific peer review, and to interact with other advisory committees relevant to the subprogramme (4)

The representative of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources called for a global mechanism for providing scientific advice to regional fisheries management organizations.