 Several
of the meetings that teams from the
International Institute for Sustainable
Development Reporting Services (IISD RS)
have reported on during the last two weeks
highlight that the international
environmental policy making process is only
as good as the information that delegates
are able to access. …
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Lynn Wagner, Ph.D.
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SECOND EAST ASIA CLIMATE FORUM DISCUSSES GREEN GROWTH |
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Seoul, 17 June—The Second East
Asia Climate Forum convened on 16 June
2010, in Seoul, Republic of Korea, to
provide a forum for dialogue on reducing
greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in East
Asia and for turning the challenges of
climate change into sustainable economic
opportunities.
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Photo: President of the Republic of Korea Lee
Myung-bak opened the Second East Asia
Climate Forum and noted that climate change is
the greatest threat to humanity |
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BONN CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS MAKE LIMITED PROGRESS |
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 Bonn,
11 June—The
Bonn Climate Change Talks took place from 31
May-11 June 2010, in Bonn, Germany. Among the
proposals discussed were a call for a technical
paper by the Secretariat on options for limiting
global average temperature increase to 1.5°C and
2°C from pre-industrial levels (which was not
agreed), and a request that the Secretariat
prepare a technical paper on legal issues and
organize a technical workshop on the scale of
Annex I emission reductions (which was agreed).
Delegates also bid farewell to outgoing UNFCCC
Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and welcomed the
appointment of Christiana Figueres (Costa Rica)
as the next Executive Secretary.
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Photo: L-R: Incoming UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Christiana Figueres; Executive Secretary
Yvo de Boer; and Former UNFCCC Executive
Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar |
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MERCURY INC 1 BEGINS WORK ON LEGALLY BINDING INSTRUMENT |
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Stockholm,
11 June—The first session of the
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
to Prepare a Global Legally Binding
Instrument on Mercury (INC 1) convened
from 7-11 June, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Delegates mandated the Secretariat to
prepare, for consideration by the INC,
“elements of a comprehensive and
suitable approach to a legally binding
instrument on mercury,” which will be
used as the basis for negotiations by
the INC 2.
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IPBES MEETING RECOMMENDS ESTABLISHMENT OF SCIENCE-POLICY
PLATFORM ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES |
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Busan,
11 June—The third Ad Hoc
Intergovernmental and Multi-stakeholder
Meeting on an Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services (IPBES III)
adopted the Busan Outcome, recommending
the establishment of an IPBES that would
collaborate with existing initiatives on
biodiversity and ecosystem services and
be scientifically independent. The event
took place from 7-11 June 2010, in Busan,
Republic of Korea.
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Third Meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Co-Chairs
on Liability and Redress under the Biosafety Protocol:
15-19 June 2010. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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22nd Session of the FAO Committee on Agriculture:
16-19 June 2010. Rome, Italy. |
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44th Meeting of the Montreal Protocol Implementation
Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure:
21-22 June 2010. Bangkok, Thailand. |
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Expert consultation for development of guidelines to
integrate climate change considerations into forest
management plans:
21-23 June 2010. Thun, Switzerland. |
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IPCC WG I Workshop on Sea Level Rise and Ice Sheet
Instabilities:
21-24 June 2010. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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Fifth Caribbean Environment Forum and Exhibition (CEF 5),
Second Caribbean Sustainable Energy Forum (CSEF 2), and 15th
Annual Wider Caribbean Waste Management Conference (ReCaribe):
21-25 June 2010. Montego Bay, Jamaica. |
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11th Meeting of the Informal Consultative Process of the Law
of the Sea:
21-25 June 2010. UN Headquarters, New York, US. |
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62nd Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission:
21-25 June 2010. Agadir, Morocco. |
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Fifth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue on
Forest Governance and Climate Change:
22 June 2010. Washington DC, US. |
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CIF Sub-Committee Meetings:
22-24 June 2010. Washington, DC, US. |
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Joint Tuna RFMOs and International Tuna Workshops:
23 June-1 July 2010. Brisbane, Australia. |
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UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010:
24-25 June 2010. New York, US. |
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G20 Toronto Summit:
26-27 June 2010. Toronto, Canada. |
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World Cities Summit 2010: Livable and Sustainable Cities for
the Future:
28 June-1 July 2010. Singapore. |
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16th Meeting of the CMS Scientific Council followed by the
Second Meeting of the Working Group on the Future Shape of
the CMS:
28 June-2 July 2010. Bonn, Germany. |
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GEF Council Meeting:
29 June-1 July 2010. Washington, DC, US. |
IISD Reporting Services will be reporting on 22 June 2010 from
the
Fifth Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) Dialogue on Forest
Governance and Climate Change
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