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
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 Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) is holding its 23rd meeting as an extraordinary meeting in place of its 23rd and 24th meetings. The main focus of this meeting will be to finalize the JISC annual report to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP).
dates: 21-23 October 2010
venue: UN Campus, Langer Eugen, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn
location: Bonn (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Germany
contact: UNFCCC JISC
phone: +49-228 815-1000
fax: +49 228 815-1999
e-mail: secretariat@unfccc.int
www: http://ji.unfccc.int/Sup_Committee/Meetings/Extraordinary_meeting/index.html
The UNCCD Secretariat is organizing Land Day 3 to meet in parallel with the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10).
date: 23 October 2010
location: Nagoya (Aichi), Japan
www: http://www.unccd.int/secretariat/docs/workplan/workplan2010eng.pdf
