Governance

Event: Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A seminar will be held on 2 March on Implementing the Copenhagen Climate Change Agreement in Asia and the Pacific.  

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LDCs Stress Climate Vulnerability at UNESCAP High-Level Policy Dialogue

20 January 2010: The UN Environment and Social Commission for  Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) convened the High-level Asia-Pacific Policy Dialogue from 18-20 January, in Dakar, Bangladesh.

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CBD Executive Secretary Stresses Interlinkages between Biodiversity, Desertification and Climate Change

20 January 2010: In a statement on the occasion of the regional workshop on “Guidelines on practices for sustainable forest management in drylands of the Sub-Saharan Africa,” held from 20-22 January 2010, in Dakar, Senegal, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), stressed that biodiversity, desertification and climate change are interconnected.

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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Holds Press Briefing on Copenhagen Outcome

20 January 2010: Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, gave a press briefing in Bonn, Germany, for the first time since the conclusion of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

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UNFCCC Publishes Annual Submission Reports of Poland and Belgium

19 January 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the in-country review (FCCC/ARR/2009/POL) of the 2009 annual submissions of Poland and the centralized review (FCCC/ARR/2009/BEL) of the 2009 annual submission of Belgium.

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Press Conference on the People’s World Conference on Climate Change Held at UN Headquarters

19 January 2010: The Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the UN sponsored a press conference on the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights, on 19 January 2010, at UN Headquarters in New York, US.

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UNFCCC Publishes Notification to Parties Regarding Copenhagen Accord

18 January 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published a notification to parties (YDB/ DBO/drl) regarding communication of information relating to the Copenhagen Accord.

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Event: Climate Change: Between Trust and Trade

This UN University (UNU) event will feature as guest speaker Dr. William Antholis, Managing Director of Brookings Institution. The event will focus on global climate regime governance by examining the importance of building and maintaining trust between nations and by drawing on lessons learned from the experience of the global trading regime. The event will be moderated by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of the UNU New York Office.  

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UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and WFP Joint Executive Board Meeting Focuses on Climate Change

15 January 2010: The Joint Session of the Executive Boards of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Food Programme (WFP) convened on 15 January 2010, in New York, US, and focused on the issue of climate change.

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UNFCCC Publishes Review of Canada’s Fourth National Communication

30 December 2009: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the report of the centralized in-depth review of the fourth national communication of Canada (NC4) (CCC/IDR.4/CAN).

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