7 June 2012: During its recently concluded meeting, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council approved a work program of 84 projects and two programmatic approaches amounting to US$667.26 million in GEF project grants, and appointed Naoko Ishii (Japan) as the next GEF Chairperson and CEO. More.

Photo: After the GEF Council unanimously decided to appoint Naoko Ishii (Japan) as the next GEF CEO/Chairperson, she greeted the Council and current CEO/Chairperson Monique Barbut.

8 June 2012: This three-day Forum was hosted by ADB, and stressed successful strategies and mechanisms for accelerating access to affordable, low-carbon energy. It was framed around four thematic tracks: energy access; technology; policy and regulation; and finance and investment. More.

2 June 2012: At the third and final round of “informal informal” consultations ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), delegates resumed consideration of the draft outcome document for Rio+20, which is titled “The Future We Want.” More.

1 June 2012: The 13th meeting of the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP 13) brought together representatives from governments, intergovernmental organizations, NGOs and academic institutions to examine this year's topic, marine renewable energies (MREs). More.

25 May 2012: The first official UNFCCC negotiating session of 2012, after the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) held in Durban, South Africa, took place in Bonn, Germany, from 14-25 May 2012. More.