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Seventh Global Conference on Climate and SDG Synergies
The Seventh Global Conference on Climate and SDG Synergies will facilitate in-depth peer learning on aligning national climate commitments and SDG priorities as well as strengthening mutually reinforcing policies across climate, development, and environment agendas.
Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC 2026)
Participants will explore how governments, businesses, researchers and civil society can work together to advance sustainable development, finance the green transition and turn ambitious goals into practical action.
15th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention
Delegates faced the challenge of how the Basel Convention can meet growing, complex waste-related challenges such as trade in plastics, electronic waste (e-waste), batteries, and used textiles, while staying relevant to longstanding challenges such as ship recycling.
Turquoise Nexus Initiative
While the food, water, and climate crises are deeply interconnected, national climate commitments rarely reflect coordination across water, agriculture, water, food security, and adaptation measures.
Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue 2026
Participants welcomed growing recognition of the role of the Ocean in climate ambition, and several expressed optimism that momentum arising from the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue may show the way to tangible action and commitments at COP 31.
Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2026
The UN climate change negotiations were beset by unprecedented levels of complexity, procedural disputes, and geopolitical divisions as countries sought to assert their political and socioeconomic interests more vigorously, while continuing to shape the future direction of the climate regime.
Expert Meeting on Agriculture and Food
In sharing the latest science on agriculture and food systems to give targeted inputs to the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, experts urged moving beyond simply identifying adaptation options and focusing also on adaptation effectiveness, residual risks, adaptation limits, and the cost of inaction.
Eighth GEF Assembly and 71st Meeting of the GEF Council
The successful end of 18 months of negotiations for the ninth replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund “represents a renewed vote of confidence in multilateralism, in the GEF partnership, and in the importance of the global environment.
Upcoming events
High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2026)
48th Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
2nd Part of the 31st Annual Session of the International Seabed Authority
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