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Seventh Global Conference on Climate and SDG Synergies
Ministers of the environment, heads of UN organizations, and lead negotiators called for focusing on scaling up implementation, underscoring that complex global challenges “must be met with cooperation, compromise, and collective action.” Nine thematic roundtable sessions explored cross-cutting implementation issues at the local, regional, and global levels.
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.
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.
Conférence de Bonn sur les changements climatiques - juin 2026
Les négociations de l'ONU sur les changements climatiques ont été marquées par une complexité sans précédent, des différends de procédure et des divisions géopolitiques, les pays cherchant à affirmer plus vigoureusement leurs intérêts politiques et socio-économiques, tout en continuant à façonner l'orientation future du régime climatique.
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.” Many also urged prioritizing the private sector’s involvement and participants pointed to the vast finance gap all MEAs face.
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. The Forum culminated in the Baku Call to Action, a set of 15 outcomes based on deliberations during the Forum to inform the New Urban Agenda mid-term review.