Current events
10th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention (MOP 10)
The tenth session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP 10) to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) will review progress in implementing the Water Convention and transboundary water cooperation.
9th Session of the Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfRP-9)
The Ninth Session of the Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfRP-9) will review progress made in carrying out the Programme of Action for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 in Africa, as well as identify priority actions towards accelerating its implementation.
2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference - SBI 5 / CBD COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5
Participants will review the state of implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including through alignment with national biodiversity strategies and action plans as well as resource mobilization.
Recently finished
Energy Transition and Biodiversity: Safeguarding Andean Wetlands
The “lithium triangle” is the area where Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia hold much of the world’s lithium.
SOI Global Dialogue with Regional Seas Organizations and Regional Fishery Bodies
This event featured reports on progress made through the Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI) Global Dialogue, launched in 2016, and highlighted the importance of cooperation and collaboration among regional bodies for achieving global goals and targets.
NBSAP Day: From target setting to accelerated implementation
Against a backdrop of urgent calls for action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, more than 300 stakeholders participated in a day-long event on advancing implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs).
2024 CCICED Annual General Meeting
Concluding three days of considering a broad range of recommendations from the Special Policy Studies, CCICED members and other participants were ready to tackle the 2024/25 period and the new set of eight agreed research themes.
ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum 2024
In close to 20 sessions, ministers and stakeholders held a variety of discussions on incentivizing action toward realizing SDG7 in line with net-zero goals.
SDG Moment 2024
Held immediately following the Summit of the Future, the 2024 event brought together diverse voices to discuss how to reinvigorate the 2030 Agenda and the global governance system that underpins it.
69th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC69)
Existential fault lines may remain, but the Commission’s civil and efficient deliberations resulted in some groundbreaking advances, demonstrating it can protect whales not only from hunting, but from other threats, including bycatch, entanglements, vessel strikes, climate change, underwater noise, and pollution.
20th Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention (POPRC-20)
Members faced the complexities of eliminating persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from complex global supply chains.
Upcoming events
13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (COP13) and 36th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP36)
Twelfth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12)
UN Climate Change Conference Baku - November 2024
20th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)
60th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council
11th Session of the IPBES Plenary and Stakeholder Day
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