13 October 2009: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Second Committee participated in a panel discussion focused on “Climate Change Negotiations: Road to Copenhagen,” on 13 October.
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13 October 2009: An African Parliamentarians Summit, entitled “Climate Change: One Africa, One Voice, One Position,” convened from 13-14 October 2009, at the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya.
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September 2009: The UN Secretary-General’s report on “Climate Change and its Possible Security Implications” (A/64/350) has been released.
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9 October 2009: The first part of the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (AWG-LCA 7) and the first part of the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 9) took place from 28 September-9 October 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand.
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7 October 2009: In a message delivered to the 2009 Global Renewable Energy Forum, organized by the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) along with the Government of Mexico, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged business leaders and governments to invest in green energy schemes that move economies away from carbon-intensive energy strategies.
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5 October 2009: Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, addressed the World Bank Bali Dialogue in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 October.
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3 October 2009: Speaking at Copenhagen University, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that “tackling climate change can set us on the road to peace and prosperity for all.”
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1 October 2009: Speaking at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that “if ever there were a time to act in a spirit of renewed multilateralism ... it is now.”
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1 October 2009: The proposed agenda, annotated agenda and draft work programme for the 50th meeting of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are now available on the CDM website.
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29 September 2009: The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has released the reports from recent meetings of its Afforestation and Reforestation (A/R) Working Group, and Small Scale Working Group (SSC WG).
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