CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
CITES CoP16 Digest - Species Survival Network
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DOCUMENT BACKGROUND / CURRENT STATUS EFFECT OF DOCUMENT SSN VIEW<br />
54<br />
Continued<br />
• Regarding data collection and submission:<br />
··<br />
SSN urges Parties to amend Annex 1 section 3 to<br />
ensure that data on the “type of ivory and quantity”<br />
collected be recorded by both number of items and<br />
total weight.<br />
··<br />
SSN notes revisions proposed to Annex 2 sections<br />
3 and 6, which add significant technical specificity<br />
to the existing elephant range State responsibility<br />
to collect and submit data to MIKE, may have<br />
resource implications that have not been fully<br />
assessed. SSN urges Parties to reject these revisions<br />
until such assessment has been made. SSN<br />
notes that the adoption of these changes may have<br />
a detrimental impact on collection and analysis of<br />
MIKE data if range States do not have the capacity<br />
to properly implement them.<br />
• SSN urges Parties to support the proposed Decision<br />
concerning the development of an Asian Elephant<br />
Conservation Strategy and Asian Elephant Fund.<br />
27. Climate change<br />
Cop16 Doc. 27<br />
• Decision 15.15 directs AC and PC to identify scientific<br />
aspects of provisions of the Convention and of<br />
Resolutions that are actually or likely to be affected<br />
by climate change and to make recommendations for<br />
<strong>CoP16</strong>, at SC62.<br />
• Decision 15.17 directs SC to take into account<br />
reports provided by the Secretariat and scientific<br />
committees to report to COP16.<br />
• Prepared by SC.<br />
• Provides SC report supporting the findings of AC and<br />
PC (Annex). These findings include, inter alia, that:<br />
• climate change may impact species in a variety<br />
of ways;<br />
• current provisions of the Convention and of<br />
Resolutions are sufficiently broad to take into<br />
account implications of climate change; and<br />
• certain activities could improve access to information<br />
on climate change and understanding of<br />
climate change impacts.<br />
• Recommends that report be adopted without further<br />
action.<br />
OPPOSE<br />
• AC, PC and SC identified actions that could be taken to<br />
improve access of Parties to information on climate<br />
change and to improve understanding of its impacts on<br />
species within the <strong>CITES</strong> context; SSN agrees guidance is<br />
needed on this issue.<br />
• SSN recommends that Parties extend and revise Decision<br />
15.17 to direct SC to turn its findings into guidance for<br />
<strong>CITES</strong> decision-making, noting the need to:<br />
• use a precautionary approach when considering climate<br />
change impacts;<br />
• use the best available science;<br />
• develop tools to help understand and consider climate<br />
change;<br />
• incorporate the long-term projections of climate<br />
change science into listing proposals and other <strong>CITES</strong><br />
decisions;<br />
• incorporate climate change into NDFs and other review<br />
processes; and<br />
• evaluate the impact of climate change on species<br />
affected by trade.