Dear Partners and Observers,
Many thanks to those of you who joined the Special Session of the GBEP Steering Committee on 23 June 2022. Please find attached the Co-chair summary of the meeting.
One URGENT FOLLOW UP ACTION is connected to the FAO 28th Committee on Agriculture (COAG) -
Rome, FAO headquarters, 18-22 July 2022 - where
GBEP will be presented with an info document (COAG/2022/INF/13).
Partners and Observers are strongly invited to contact their representatives in the Representation to FAO in Rome to suggest an intervention to express support and appreciation to GBEP once the agenda of the
COAG will focus on the info documents. Useful elements for those supporting interventions could be taken from the “Background document” here attached and available on the
GBEP website. These interventions of support could be very relevant for potential donors around the COAG table in terms of fund-raising opportunities.
We would also like to highlight the other main outcomes of the meeting for the interest and action of all Partners and Observers:
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A streamlined GBEP Programme of Work and budget for the biennium 2023-24 will be developed and circulated, to be approved by Partners and Observers during a
meeting to be organized in September 2022 (Steering Committee or ‘Friends of the Chair’, exact date to be communicated in due time).
In advance of this meeting, Partners and Observers will communicate to the GBEP Secretariat concrete financial backing of this streamlined programme of work.
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The GBEP Secretariat will hold bilateral meetings with Partners, Observers and external donors to explore further funding opportunities and modalities.
If you have any questions of doubts, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
GBEP Secretariat
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GBEP Secretariat
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Climate and Environment Division
Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department
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Fax: +39.06.57053250
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GBEP website: www.globalbioenergy.org
Executive Secretary: Dr. Maria Michela Morese;
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Programme Adviser: Ms Constance Miller;
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