This online course is organized by the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to facilitate international negotiations, public sector work, and diplomatic engagement in relation to climate change by enabling enhanced understanding of the science of climate change, its international policy framework, and the key negotiation issues pertinent to a post-2012 climate change agreement.
dates: 4 October - 26 November 2010
location: virtual
additional: Internet-based
e-mail: diplomacy@unitar.org
www: http://www.unitar.org/event/climate-change-diplomacy
This meeting will be held in the framework of the project Financing Energy Efficiency Investments for Climate Change Mitigation, which seeks to promote the formation of a market for energy efficiency in 12 Eastern European, South-eastern European and Central Asian countries to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
dates: 18-19 October 2010
location: Geneva (Geneve), Switzerland
www: http://www.unece.org/energy/se/enef_gee21.html
The working group on afforestation and reforestation for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activities (AR WG) was established to prepare recommendations on submitted proposals for new baseline and monitoring methodologies for CDM AR project activities. The working group is expected to work in cooperation with the Meth Panel.
dates: 18-20 October 2010
location: Bonn (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germany
contact: UNFCCC Secretariat
phone: +49 (228) 815-1000
fax: +49 (228) 815-1999
e-mail: secretariat@unfccc.int
www: http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/ar
The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is expected to assess achievement of the 2010 target to reduce significantly the rate of biodiversity loss, adopt an international regime on access and benefit-sharing and celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity 2010.
dates: 18-29 October 2010
location: Nagoya (Aichi), Japan
contact: CBD Secretariat
phone: 1-514-288-2220
fax: 1-514-288-6588
e-mail: secretariat@cbd.int
www: http://www.cbd.int/cop10
The small scale working group (SSC WG) was established to prepare recommendations on submitted proposals for new baseline and monitoring methodologies for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) small scale project activities.
dates: 19-22 October 2010
location: Bonn (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germany
contact: UNFCCC Secretariat
phone: +49 (228) 815-1000
fax: +49-228 815-1999
e-mail: secretariat@unfccc.int
www: http://unfccc.int/meetings/unfccc_calendar/items/2655.php
