UN Secretariat

InterAcademy Council to Review the IPCC’s Processes and Procedures

10 March 2010: At a press conference held on 10 March 2010, at UN Headquarters in New York, US, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chair Rajendra Pachauri launched an Independent Review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures. read more »

UN Marks International Women’s Day with Calls to Meet the Challenges of Development

8 March 2010: To mark International Women’s Day, UN officials stressed the need for greater empowerment of women in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and to face development challenges, including climate change. read more »

Members of UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing Announced

4 March 2010:  The 19 members of the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, which was set up by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in February 2010, have been announced.

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Japan Convenes Informal Meeting on Further Actions Against Climate Change

2 March 2010: The eighth informal meeting on ‘Further Actions against Climate Change’ convened in Tokyo, Japan, from 1-2 March 2010, under the chairmanship of Akihiko Furuya (Japan) and Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado (Brazil). read more »

UN Secretary-General Delivers Bernard Brodie Lecture: “Green Growth Will Power the Economy of the 21st Century”

2 March 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered the “Bernard Brodie Lecture on Conditions for Peace” at the University of California, in Los Angeles, California, US, on 2 March 2010. He noted the interconnections in today’s global world, highlighting the global financial and food crises, climate change, and global terrorism. read more »

UN Secretary-General in Los Angeles to Mobilize Support for Addressing Global Issues

1 March 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is travelling to Los Angeles, US, from 28 February-2 March 2010, to meet with members of the creative community to mobilize support for the goals and mission of the UN, including its efforts to deal with climate change, global hunger and the financial crisis. Ban’s travels are carried out under the framework of the Creative Community Outreach Initiative (CCOI), a collaboration of the UN with the entertainment industry on a number of projects that aims to raise the profile of critical global issues in partnership with the international film and television industries. read more »

Event Announcement: CSD 19

This policy-year session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) will negotiate policy options related to the thematic cluster for the CSD 18-19 cycle: transport, chemicals, waste management, mining and the Ten-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns.
Location
New York, US
Start Date
02 May 2011
End Date
13 May 2011
Link

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/index.shtml

UN Secretary-General Calls for Rejecting Attempts by Climate Sceptics to Derail Negotiations

24 February 2010: In a message to the 11th Special Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), taking place in Bali, Indonesia, 24–26 February 2010, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Ministers of Environment and environment experts to reject the recent attempts by climate sceptics to derail negotiations by exaggerating shortcomings in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.

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Event Announcement: Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting for CSD 19

This meeting will prepare for the policy-year session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), which will negotiate policy options related to the thematic cluster for the CSD 18-19 cycle: transport, chemicals, waste management, mining and the Ten-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns.
Location
New York, NY, US
Start Date
21 February 2011
End Date
25 February 2011
Link

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/csd/csd_csd18.shtml

Event Announcement: CSD 18 SIDS Special Day

CSD-18 SIDS Day will serve as a PrepCom for the High-level Review of the Mauritius Strategy for the Implementation (MSI) of the Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island States (SIDS), which is scheduled to take place in September 2010.
Location
New York, NY, US
Start Date
10 May 2010
End Date
10 May 2010
Link

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_sids/sids_csdspecdayipm_18.shtml