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14th Meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP14)
CITES CoP14 will be remembered as the meeting that chartered the Convention’s future by achieving a hard-won consensus on the Strategic Vision setting out three strategic goals on compliance and enforcement, securing financial resources, and CITES’ role in the broader international environment agenda.
9th Session of IPCC Working Group III (WGIII) and 26th Session of IPCC (IPCC-26)
The meeting accepted Working Group III’s contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report titled “Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change,” including approval of the Summary for Policymakers that emphasizes that greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 70% since 1970 and that with current policies their growth is projected to continue over the next few decades.