This meeting is organized by UNEP. The proposed platform will build on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment follow-up initiative and the outcomes of the consultative process towards an International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB). The meeting has been endorsed by the ninth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.  

dates: 10-12 November 2008  
location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  
www: http://intranet.unep.org/DEPI/noticeboard/Categories/index.asp?item_Catg=2