Minutes of IETC 5th International Advisory Board Meeting

United Nations Environment Programme
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics

Meeting Minutes
5th International Advisory Board Meeting

4th December 2002 - Osaka, Japan

Attachment 2: AGENDA

Item

08h30 - 09h15

Coffee

09h15 - 09h35

Welcome and Purpose of the meeting :
	Mrs. Aloisi de Larderel welcomed participants and presented the purpose of the meeting. She finalized the minutes of the 4th IAB meeting. Each participant introduced him/herself. Steve Halls dealt with house-keeping matters.

09h35 - 10h40

Impact of WSSD on IETC:
	Mrs. Aloisi de Larderel and Steve Halls presented the outcome of the World Summit of Sustainable Development and the priorities given to IETC in that context. In addition, the main future events related to environment and sustainable development, to which IETC will contribute (e.g. WWF3, Sustainable Building 2005) were presented.

10h40 - 11h00

Coffee

11h00 - 13h00

IETC Activities in 2002 Work Programme and Presentation of 2003 work programme :
	On the basis of 2000/2001 and the first year of the biennium 2002-3 achievements, Steve Halls briefly introduced IETC draft 2002 annual report. Lilia Casanova, Vicente Santiago, Hari Srinivas also made short presentations on key project areas. The Advisory Board commented on the achievements and on the corresponding outputs.

13h - 14h00

Lunch

14h00-15h15

IETC website and future developments in the context of overall UNEP web policy :
	Robert Rodriguez and Steve Halls presented the IETC website, website statistics, launch of maESTro II, ESTIS, and e-learning. A discussion followed.

15h15 - 15h45

IETC Work Programme for 2004 - 5 :
	Steve Halls briefly presented the IETC WP 2004 - 5. A discussion followed.

15h45 - 16h00

Tea

16h00 - 17h00

Brainstorming discussion on key trends which will affect IETC in 2003 and beyond :
	Implications for IETC strategy and activities

17h00 - 17h15

Summary conclusions :
	Steve Halls summarized the main outcome of the meeting

17h15 - 17h30

Close of the meeting :
	Mrs. Aloisi de Larderel concluded and closed the meeting

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