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Resumed Session of the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference - CBD COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5
Negotiators will have three days to resolve the pending decisions from biodiversity negotiations in Colombia, including on resource mobilization, resource mobilization, the GBF monitoring framework, and the financial mechanism.
62nd Session of the IPCC (IPCC-62)
IPCC delegates will gather to review draft work on key elements of their Seventh Assessment Report—including draft outline of each Working Group—as well as the IPCC Trust Fund Programme and budget for the years 2024 to 2027.
3rd Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 4th International Conference on FfD
PrepCom 3 is set to expand on discussions on a draft of the outcome document of the upcoming Fourth Financing for Development Conference.
Organizational Session for the Intergovernmental Negotiations for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
The meeting at UN headquarters will set the stage for negotiations to reform the architecture of the international financial system in a push for global tax justice.
78th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
The seventy-eighth meeting of the CITES Standing Committee will consider cooperation with other multilateral environmental agreements, the transport of live specimens, specimens produced through biotechnology, and the role of CITES in reducing the risk of potential zoonotic disease emergence associated with international wildlife trade.
68th Meeting of the GEF Council
The nearly USD 700 million Work Program approved focuses heavily on chemicals and waste at a time when the GEF hopes to prove to the multilateral community it has the capacity to serve as the financial mechanism for a global plastics treaty and that it could play a significant role in realizing the vision of the Global Framework on Chemicals.
Private Sector Dialogue to Catalyze Nature-Positive Investment in Drought Resilience
Can efforts to build drought resilience attract private sector investment? Government leaders at this session cited examples of how private finance and government support have enabled tree planting, livestock insurance, and hydraulic ram pumps, benefiting farmers.
Future Leaders Network: AI Negotiation Tools and Technologies
How can AI tools empower youth delegates at multilateral negotiations? Organizers of this session presented a custom-built AI tool for youth negotiators, and provided tips on prompt engineering, data bias, and risks to avoid.
Resilience Day: Connecting Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought, Sand and Dust Storms, and Water Scarcity with Integrated Land Solutions
Resilience against drought means many things, rainwater harvesting, tree planting, the chance of owning one’s land—and restoring hope to people displaced by climate impacts. Thematic sessions today showed how these are connected.