 The
flurry of meetings in September, during
which international diplomats identified
priorities and examined the implementation
of past commitments, will soon contribute to
major negotiating sessions in October. …
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New York,
26 September—The High-level Review
Meeting on the Implementation of the
Mauritius Strategy for the Further
Implementation of the Programme of
Action for the Sustainable Development
of SIDS (MSI+5), convened from 24-25
September 2010, at UN Headquarters in
New York, US, as part of the 65th
Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
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Photo: L-R: Co-Chairs Ralph E. Gonsalves,
Prime Minister, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines; Kevin Rudd, Foreign Minister,
Australia; and Sha Zukang, Under
Secretary-General, UN Department of Economic and
Social Affairs (UN DESA) |
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MDG Summit Calls for “Keeping the Promise” |
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New York,
23 September—The High-level Plenary
Meeting of the 65th Session of the UN
General Assembly (UNGA) on the
Millennium Development Goals (MDG)—or
“MDG Summit”—took place at UN
Headquarters in New York, US, from 20-22
September 2010, under the theme “We can
end poverty by 2015.”
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Photo: L-R: Helen Clark, UNDP; Ban Ki-moon, UN
Secretary-General; Juan Manuel Santos Calderón,
President of Colombia; and Choummaly Sayasone,
President of Peoples Democratic Republic of
Laos, during the event on “Turning the Evidence
into Practice” |
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61st Session of the Marine Protection Committee of the IMO:
27 September-1 October 2010. London, United Kingdom. |
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37th Session of the ICAO Assembly:
28 September-8 October 2010. Montreal, Canada. |
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Second Methane to Markets Ministerial Meeting:
1 October 2010. Mexico City, Mexico. |
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Caring for Climate/B4E Special Event:
4-5 October 2010. Cancún, Mexico. |
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UNEP GEO-5 Regional Consultation: Bahrain:
4-5 October 2010. Bahrain. |
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First Meeting of Signatories to the Dugong MoU:
4-6 October 2010. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. |
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2010 Social Forum on Climate Change and Human Rights:
4-6 October 2010. Geneva, Switzerland. |
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Twentieth Session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO 2010)
of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
4-8 October 2010, Rome, Italy. |
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Tianjin Climate Change Talks - October 2010:
4-9 October 2010, Tianjin, China. |
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Future of Cities - ICLEI's 20th Anniversary Congress:
5-7 October 2010. Inchon, Republic of Korea. |
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UNCTAD Ad Hoc Expert Meeting on the Green Economy:
Trade and Sustainable Development Implications:
7-8 October 2010. Geneva, Switzerland. |
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Thirty-second Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change:
11-14 October 2010, Busan, Republic of Korea. |
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Fifth Meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the
Meeting of the Parties of the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety (COP-MOP 5):
11-15 October 2010, Nagoya, Japan. |
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Sixth Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review
Committee (POPRC6) to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs):
11-15 October 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. |
IISD Reporting Services will be reporting from the
Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference (DIREC) 2010 |
27-29 October, New Delhi, India
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