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2024 CCICED Annual General Meeting
Concluding three days of considering a broad range of recommendations from the Special Policy Studies, CCICED members and other participants were ready to tackle the 2024/25 period and the new set of eight agreed research themes.
ENERGYNOW SDG7 Action Forum 2024
In close to 20 sessions, ministers and stakeholders held a variety of discussions on incentivizing action toward realizing SDG7 in line with net-zero goals.
SDG Moment 2024
Held immediately following the Summit of the Future, the 2024 event brought together diverse voices to discuss how to reinvigorate the 2030 Agenda and the global governance system that underpins it.
69th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC69)
Existential fault lines may remain, but the Commission’s civil and efficient deliberations resulted in some groundbreaking advances, demonstrating it can protect whales not only from hunting, but from other threats, including bycatch, entanglements, vessel strikes, climate change, underwater noise, and pollution.
20th Meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to the Stockholm Convention (POPRC-20)
Members faced the complexities of eliminating persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from complex global supply chains.
Summit of the Future
Acknowledging the multilateral system is broken, many speakers said with slow progress or regression on the Sustainable Development Goals, the Summit should be seen as a last-ditch effort to turn the tide and reimagine a system of global governance that works for all.
Working With Countries to Move Beyond GDP and Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Development
Working With Countries to Move Beyond GDP and Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Development For more than half a century, gross domestic product (GDP) has been widely accepted as the standard measure of economic health and national progress.
20th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-20)
The CRC reviewed a record 35 notifications of final regulatory action, as well as four proposals for listing severely hazardous pesticide formulations.
Upcoming events
2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference - SBI 5 / CBD COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5
9th Session of the Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (AfRP-9)
10th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention (MOP 10)
13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (COP13) and 36th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP36)
UN Climate Change Conference Baku - November 2024
11th Session of the IPBES Plenary and Stakeholder Day
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