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Archives Topics Negotiations Participants Articles Click to open the search form Search the site Search Cancel Search Get updates About Support Event 13 May 2024 8:00am 26th Meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 26) and 4th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4) Meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s subsidiary bodies will review steps need to bring the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into being while also setting the stage for COP 16 in Colombia. Read more Current events View recently finished View upcoming Current 26th Meeting of the CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 26) and 4th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 4) Read more Recently finished IUFRO Side Event at UNFF19: Presentation of Report by IUFRO’s Science-Policy Programme on International Forest Governance A side event organized by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), held during the 19th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF19), launched the publication of the first global synthesis report on international forest governance in 14 years. Event 10 May 2024 8:00am 19th Session of the UNFF After a challenging week, delegates successfully adopted a declaration signalling high-level commitment to forests, and an omnibus resolution that reviewed the effectiveness of the International Arrangement on Forests and set the mandate for specific future actions to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation. Event 6 May 2024 8:00am 4th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution, Including in the Marine Environment (INC-4) While the plastic pollution negotiations started with lofty ambitions, it has become clear that a strong treaty is in no way guaranteed. Event 23 April 2024 8:00am Global Stocktaking on Sustainable Energy (SDG7) Participants lauded the progress made in improving energy access and boosting renewables, but emphasized the world is still not on track to achieve SDG7. Event 19 April 2024 8:00am 11th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the ITPGRFA Multilateral System Delegates made progress towards enhancing the Multilateral System that provides facilitated access to a list of crops considered vital for food security, with the aim to increase benefit-sharing flows to the stewards of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, which are primarily farmers in developing countries. Event 16 April 2024 8:00am 2024 Ocean Decade Conference Participants shaped a set of ten draft white papers, which identify future priorities for the Ocean Decade to generate knowledge on science-based solutions to biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, a sustainable ocean economy, pollution, and natural hazards. Event 10 April 2024 8:00am 15th Meeting of the Monaco Blue Initiative Participants reflected on how to accomplish the urgent tasks for 2024, including progressing on ratification of the BBNJ Treaty, delivering on GBF objectives by 2030, and addressing important challenges like deep seabed mining, as well as overcome setbacks like the failure by WTO members to agree on a second phase of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Event 18 March 2024 9:00am 1st Part of the 29th Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority Environmental externalities, underwater cultural heritage, test mining, regional environmental management plans, environmental compensation fund, royalties, safety measures… The list goes on. Event 18 March 2024 9:00am Upcoming events 4th International Conference on SIDS The fourth SIDS Conference is expected to adopt a new programme of action with specific targets for SIDS sustainable development over the next decade. The conference will also feature five interactive and multi-stakeholder dialogues to address current and emerging challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. Event 27 May 2024 - 30 May 2024 Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2024 Parties will discuss lessons learned from the first Global Stocktake, progress on developing reporting tools under the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, and support for developing countries to prepare their biennial transparency reports (which all parties are to submit in 2024). Event 3 June 2024 - 13 June 2024 We are Earth Negotiations Bulletin The Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) is a balanced, timely and independent reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations. It is the flagship publication of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. IISD is a non-profit organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 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