Sikander Sabeer: GYBN Policy WG Meeting Minutes

Sunday, September 16, 2012

GYBN Policy WG Meeting Minutes - 15/09/12

GYBN Policy Working Group

1st Meeting - 15th.09.2012 - 1pm GMT:

Participants: Melina, Lena, Sikander
Facilitator: Sikander
Notetaker: Lena

ACT @Melina: Tell to ST - code of conduct - improve email communication - avoid spam

Agenda

- Round of Introduction

Lena (Germany) - Environmental Engineer Student,
Melina (Brazil, living in Japan) - Biologist, Master's in Environmental Management, Research with Biodiversity Valorization.
SIkander (Sri Lanka) - Beyond Rio+20 Movement

- Reflextion on GYBN Conferenece few thoughts on Kick off Conference

Lena- Great, Load work, Happy to see the WG, There is follow-up.
Melina- Similer to Lena, Plan of action till CBD
Sikander - Start up the moment, follow-ups - worried about after CBD, lot of things to do and how we will be preparing GYBN for the next 2 years

- Discussing a Strategy to work on the policy paper

Lena - New comments
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtdraL1hvPY1XMtMSBJHYmGnVLgVf2RqH0qQmLcEvBk/edit?pli=Lena-
Discuss the Unclosed para and way forward to finalize it,
Circulate It
Send for Comments
do ammendments
Online Voting
Submission
Melina -
If people say "No", They have to justify it, The majority will be considered

Discussion on the paper:

- Not merging Forst Biodiversity and Mountain Biodiversity
- Concern on "community-based scientific documentation",
Melina: it is needed not only on mountain biodiversity,
Lena: at the moment it is not easy to understand the sentence, it is not clear
--> we will leave it in breakets and see what people say: if it is drastically changing our paper we can take it out as we do not have time to be workingon it right now, or is it important and we will be able to redraft
- sustainable use of biodiversity:
Melina: we should put it in brackets and open the question to delete as not strong at the moment and redundant and we have no capacity working on it at the moment.
Suggestion of Sikander for the text: We remind parties to use biodiversity to enhance the quality of life and introduce biodiversity services/eco system services which will add benifits to the economy and community, while conserving it.
--> we are not going to redraft points again, so we are trying to include or take out points that are not strong enough. Voting on it.
--> we are trying to draft a paper on Economy and biodiversity to be presented and distributed in different discussions on economy and especially green economy that will come up.
- biofules: not merged with agriculture
ACT @Lena: sending the minutes and request on acting on the open questions, then we will start the voting process
- forming subgroups and appointing co facilitators
Melina voluneer to work on "Biodiversity & Economy"
ACT @Melina, starting the group during the next week
Lena: we should form groups of peopel who are kowlageable about the main important topics of COP11, also to be a rapid response team for questions coming up during COP11
Melina: we should have a list who is in our group and expert in which topics and also send a request for people who are expert on certain toics of COP11, who want to volunteer to help in following the topics
Sikander: we should break dowin the topics
- CBD operational process: Strategic Plan, Finance, ...
- Content issues: Mountains, Forest, Maine and Coastal biodiv, agriculture, Climate Change and biodiv, ...
- Cross cutting issues: Economic, subsidies, ecosystem services, capacity building
- Indigenious issues and Tradition knowledge
- Benefit sharing (ABS)
ACT@Melina: sending out the expert list, plus email with request to everyone and email everyone asking for contribution
- Lobbystrategy for COP11. How do we want to use our position paper for lobbying activities at the COP?
Could not discussed!
- GYBN Side Event on October 16th - we have time to present both GYBN and our Position Paper there
After the PP is finalized.

- Any Other Business

- tasks to DO and Deadlines
Lena- Circulate the minutes and feed back on PP
-Melina- Make the sperad sheet
-Sika- Fix the next call it has to be next week, the sooner the better! And we need to send individual emails if necessary to get people! making a dooddle for next week Saturday and Sunday 1pm GMT

- Fixing Next call and Closeup.

Next week

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About Me

Sikander Sabeer is a product of Isipathana College and holding a first class with distinction Bachelors of Science (BSc) degree on Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology from Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka), an outreach campus of University of Mysore (India). Presently reading for his Masters of Science (MSc) on Business Management at National School of Business Management (Sri Lanka), an outreach post-graduate institute of University of Dublin (Ireland).

Sikanders’ development work can be categorized into three avenues, namely community service and community development; youth empowerment and professional development; climate change and sustainable development. Meanwhile his development work is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. In the action oriented phase, he gets in to the field and implements his ideas. He works very closely with multi-stakeholders such as children, school students, youth, corporates & business firms, UN agencies, non-governmental and government organizations on diversified projects at different levels and on different capacities. With his strong grass-root level initiatives and experience, he invests equal time on advocacy, mentorship and youth policy framework, which is a unique, and a strategic bottom up approach.

Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. He has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences, at some of the UN meetings I have served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team headed by HE president. Half of the world’s population is made up of young people and as a youth representative and a major stakeholder he had made several interventions on behalf of Global Youth and Sri Lankan youth at some of the UN conferences.

He has held several key positions in organizing several national and international events/programmes and he is one of the co-creators of the YOUTH is the word –Guinness World Record, where 1500 Sri Lankan youth stood to gather to form the largest human mosaic in the world.

His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development, Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the most prestigious “Commonwealth Youth Awards (CYA)” for Excellence in Development Work (2012), The CYA’s celebrate and recognize extraordinary young people among one billion audiences from 54 member states of Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging from poverty alleviation to education and protection of the environment. This is awarded by Commonwealth Secretariat (CYP) headed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He earned the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council Youth Empowerment Programme on 2010 for outstanding contribution for Voluntary Activities. He serves as a Youth Ambassadorial role for climate change and serves as a Youth Facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion program. Apart from these major recognitions his team earned U.S. Department of States Federal Assistant Award Grant for “Green the Home” project and Global Changemakers Community Action Project (CAP) and Regional Action Project (RAP) grants for Youth Empowerment Initiatives.

Presently Sikander is serving as an Assistant Manager for Business Development and Project Officer for recycling solutions for Neptune Recyclers (Neptune Papers [Pvt.] Ltd) in Sri Lanka, a member of multinational corporate Expolanka Holdings PLC. He works very closely with multi- stakeholders, especially with school students, Industries and Corporates on recycling solutions which create an additional income from the trash while minimizing the environmental pollution.

"Do as much as voluntary activities, because volunteers Inspire in Action, they make a real change in their community, they talk less and work a lot, but never expect any personal benefits from their action, Indeed one day they will earn the rewards, that’s confirmed; Install this in your mind “I will do the best I can”

-Sikander Sabeer-