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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.
13th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13)
Affordability was a recurring throughout WUF13, with participants in many sessions raising concerns on the increasing dominance of market-oriented housing development and the rising numbers of forced evictions in many countries.
21st Session of the UNFF
As delegates tried to balance ambitious and increasing mandates for the Forum and its Secretariat with increasingly constrained resources, some wondered if scale and velocity can be achieved in time to realize even part of the UN Strategic Plan for Forests by its 2030 deadline.
High-level Segment of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels
The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels aims to solidify a coalition of the willing and provide a political platform for countries ready for an orderly, equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
Upcoming events
Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC 2026)
Seventh Global Conference on Climate and SDG Synergies
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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