As a result , an Expert Meeting on Synergies among the Conventions on Climate Change , Biological Diversity and Desertification and the Forest Principles was convened in the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Sede Boqer , Israel in March 1997 . The summary of this meeting was published by the Division for Sustainable Energy and Environment of the United Nations Development Programme ( SEED-UNDP ) as a booklet entitled “ Synergies in National Implementation ” in January 1998 .